PHP 4.0.3 has been released.  4.0.3 is mostly a security-oriented 
 maintenance release, therefore it's *strongly* recommended for all users of 
 PHP to upgrade to it.
 
 Source:
 http://www.php.net/do_download.php?download_file=php-4.0.3.tar.gz
 
 Win32 binaries:
 http://www.php.net/do_download.php?download_file=php-4.0.3-Win32.zip
 You'd notice that the 4.0.3 Win32 distribution is beefed up with a lot of 
 loadable modules.  The extensive build is courtesy of Daniel Beulshausen - 
 thanks!
 
 The full list of changes is enclosed.
 
 Zeev
 
 
 11 Oct 2000, Version 4.0.3
 - Fixed a possible crash in -a interactive mode (Zeev, Zend Engine)
 - Added mysql_escape_string() (Peter A. Savitch and & Brian Wang)
 - Fixed many possible crash bugs with improper use of the printf() family of
    functions (Andi)
 - Fixed a problem that allowed users to override admin_value's and admin_flag's
    (Zeev)
 - Fixed PostgreSQL module to work when the link handle is omitted (Zeev)
 - Fixed returning of empty LOB fields in OCI8. (Thies)
 - Added Calendar module to default Win32 build (Andi)
 - Added FTP module to default Win32 build (Andi)
 - Fixed crash in the POSIX getrlimit() function (alex@zend.com)
 - Fixed dirname() under certain conditions (Andi)
 - Added --with-imap-ssl to support SSL'ized imap library in RH7 and others
    (Rasmus)
 - Fixed possible crash bug in parse_url() (Andi)
 - Added support for trans sid under Win32 (Daniel)
 - IPv6 support in fopen (Stig Venaas)
 - Added the shmop extension. It allows more general ways of shared memory
    access. (thanks to Ilia Alshanestky <iliaa@[...].com>  and Slava Poliakov
    <slavapl@[...].com>  (Derick)
 - Added the ability for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to accept an associative array of
    HTTP POST variables and values. (Sterling)
 - Added the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option to curl_setopt(). (Sterling)
 - Added the curl_error() and curl_errno() functions. (Sterling)
 - Changed ext/db not to be enabled by default (Jani)
 - Fixed building Apache SAPI module on SCO UnixWare (Sascha)
 - Fixed writing empty session sets to shared memory (tcarroll@chc-chimes.com)
 - Added support for BSD/OS make (Sascha)
 - Added improved URL rewriter (Sascha)
 - Fixed readdir_r() use on Solaris (Sascha)
 - Improved HTTP headers for private-caching (jon@[...].edu, Sascha)
 - Added new function session_cache_limiter (jon@[...].edu, Sascha)
 - Added ftp_exec to the ftp functions (thanks to <jhennebicq@[...].net> )
    (Derick)
 - PEAR: add last executed query as debug info in DB errors (Stig)
 - PEAR: allow multiple modes in PEAR_Error (Stig)
 - Made the Sybase CT module thread safe (Zeev)
 - Added second argument to array_reverse() that indicatese whether
    the original array keys should be preserved. (Andrei)
 - Clean up htmlspecialchars/htmlentities inconsistencies. (Rasmus)
 - PEAR: renamed DB_GETMODE_* to DB_FETCHMODE_*, added setFetchMode()
    in DB_common to set the default mode, added some MySQL tests (Stig)
 - Made eval() and several other runtime-evaluated code portions report the
    nature and location of errors more accurately (Stas)
 - Added an optional parameter to wordwrap that cuts a string if the length of a
    word is longer than the maximum allowed. (Derick)
 - Added functions pg_put_line and pg_end_copy (Dirk Elmendorf)
 - Added second parameter for parse_str to save result (John Bafford)
 - Fixed bug with curl places extra data in the output. (medvitz@medvitz.net)
 - Added the pathinfo() function. (Sterling)
 - Updated sybase_ct module and its sybase_query to use high performance API.
    (Joey)
 - Added a more configurable error reporting interface to DB. (Stig)
 - Added is_uploaded_file() and move_uploaded_file() (Zeev)
 - Added several directives to php.ini - post_max_size, file_uploads,
    display_startup_errors - see php.ini-dist for further information (Zeev)
 - Worked around a bug in the libc5 implementation of readdir() (Stas)
 - Fixed some potential OpenBSD and NetBSD crash bugs when opening files. (Andi)
 - Added EscapeShellArg() function (Rasmus)
 - Added a php.ini option session.use_trans_sid to enable/disable trans-sid.
    (Sterling)
 - Added the Sablotron extension for XSL parsing. (Sterling)
 - Fixed a bug in checkdate() which caused < 1 years to be valid (Jani)
 - Added support for an optional output handler function for output
    buffering.  This enables transparent rendering of XML through XSL,
    transparent compression, etc. (Zeev)
 - Added support for user defined 'tick' callback functions. This helps
    emulate background processing. (Andrei)
 - Fixed problem with having $this as the XML parser object. (Andrei)
 - Internal opened_path variable now uses the Zend memory manager so that full
    paths of files won't leak on unclean shutdown (Andi)
 - Removed support of print $obj automatically calling the __string_value()
    method. Instead define yourself a method such as toString() and use
    print $obj-> toString() (Andi, Zend Engine)
 
 
 --
 Zeev Suraski   <zeev@[...].com> 
 http://www.zend.com/
 
 
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