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The latest release of PHP 5.5 is 5.5.38.

Source Code

Change Log

  • core

    • Allow zero length comparison in substr_compare() (Tjerk)
    • Fixed bug #60602 (proc_open() changes environment array) (Tjerk)
  • spl

    • Added feature #65545 (SplFileObject::fread()) (Tjerk)
    • Fixed bug #66702 (RegexIterator::INVERT_MATCH does not invert).
      Joshua Thijssen
  • curl

    • Fixed bug #66109 (Can't reset CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST to default behaviour) (Tjerk)
    • Fix compilation on libcurl versions between 7.10.5 and 7.12.2, inclusive.
      Adam
  • fileinfo

    • Fixed bug #66946i (fileinfo: extensive backtracking in awk rule regular expression). (CVE-2013-7345)
      Remi
  • fpm

    • Added clear_env configuration directive to disable clearenv() call.
      Github PR# 598
      Paul Annesley
  • gd

    • Fixed bug #66714 (imageconvolution breakage).
      Brad Daily
    • Fixed bug #66869 (Invalid 2nd argument crashes imageaffinematrixget) (Pierre)
    • Fixed bug #66887 (imagescale - poor quality of scaled image).
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #66890 (imagescale segfault).
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #66893 (imagescale ignore method argument).
      Remi
  • hash

    • hash_pbkdf2() now works correctly if the $length argument is not specified.
      Nikita
  • intl

    • Fixed bug #66873 (A reproductible crash in UConverter when given invalid encoding) (Stas)
  • mail

    • Fixed bug #66535 (Don't add newline after X-PHP-Originating-Script) (Tjerk)
  • mysqli

    • Fixed bug #66762 (Segfault in mysqli_stmt::bind_result() when link closed) (Remi)
  • opcache

    • Added function opcache_is_script_cached().
      Danack
    • Added information about interned strings usage.
      Terry
      Julien
      Dmitry
  • openssl

    • Fixed bug #66833 (Default disgest algo is still MD5, switch to SHA1).
      Remi
  • gmp

    • Fixed bug #66872 (invalid argument crashes gmp_testbit) (Pierre)
  • sqlite

    • Updated bundled libsqlite to 3.8.3.1 (Anatol)

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