PHP 4.3.3 Released

After four release candidates PHP 4.3.3 was finally released yesterday. This release contains a large number of bug fixes and PHP group strongly recommends that all users of PHP upgrade to this version.

PHP 4.3.3 contains, among others, following important fixes, additions and improvements:

• Improved the engine to use POSIX/socket IO where feasible.
  
• Fixed several potentially hazardous integer and buffer overflows.
  
• Fixed corruption of multibyte character including 0×5c as second
  byte in multipart/form-data.
  
• Fixed each() to be binary safe for keys.
  
• Major improvements to the NSAPI SAPI.
  
• Improvements to the IMAP extension.
  
• Improvements to the InterBase extension.
  
• Added DBA handler ‘inifile’ to support ini files.
  
• Added long options into CLI & CGI (e.g. —version).
  
• Added a new parameter to preg_match*() that can be used to specify
  the starting offset in the subject string to match from.
  
• Upgraded the bundled Expat library to version 1.95.6
  
• Upgraded the bundled PCRE library to version 4.3
  
• Upgraded the bundled GD library to version GD 2.0.15
  
• Over 100 various bug fixes!

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