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The latest release of PHP 5.5 is 5.5.38.

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Change Log

  • core

    • Removed support for multi-line headers, as the are deprecated by RFC 7230.
      Stas
    • Fixed bug #67068 (getClosure returns somethings that's not a closure).
      Danack at basereality dot com
    • Fixed bug #68942 (Use after free vulnerability in unserialize() with DateTimeZone). (CVE-2015-0273)
      Stas
    • Fixed bug #68925 (Mitigation for CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow).
      Stas
    • Added NULL byte protection to exec, system and passthru.
      Yasuo
  • date

    • Fixed bug #45081 (strtotime incorrectly interprets SGT time zone).
      Derick
  • dba

    • Fixed bug #68711 (useless comparisons).
      bugreports at internot dot info
  • enchant

    • Fixed bug #68552 (heap buffer overflow in enchant_broker_request_dict()). (CVE-2014-9705)
      Antony
  • fileinfo

    • Fixed bug #68827 (Double free with disabled ZMM).
      Joshua Rogers
  • fpm

    • Fixed bug #66479 (Wrong response to FCGI_GET_VALUES).
      Frank Stolle
    • Fixed bug #68571 (core dump when webserver close the socket).
      redfoxli069 at gmail dot com
      Laruence
  • libxml

    • Fixed bug #64938 (libxml_disable_entity_loader setting is shared between threads).
      Martin Jansen
  • pdo_mysql

    • Fixed bug #68750 (PDOMysql with mysqlnd does not allow the usage of named pipes).
      steffenb198 at aol dot com
  • phar

    • Fixed bug #68901 (use after free). (CVE-2015-2301)
      bugreports at internot dot info
  • pgsql

    • Fixed Bug #65199 'pg_copy_from() modifies input array variable).
      Yasuo
  • sqlite3

    • Fixed bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong required_num_args).
      Julien
  • mysqli

    • Fixed bug #68114 (linker error on some OS X machines with fixed width decimal support) (Keyur Govande)
    • Fixed bug #68657 (Reading 4 byte floats with Mysqli and libmysqlclient has rounding errors) (Keyur Govande)
  • session

    • Fixed bug #68941 (mod_files.sh is a bash-script) (bugzilla at ii.nl, Yasuo)
    • Fixed Bug #66623 (no EINTR check on flock) (Yasuo)
    • Fixed bug #68063 (Empty session IDs do still start sessions) (Yasuo)
  • standard

    • Fixed bug #65272 (flock() out parameter not set correctly in windows).
      Daniel Lowrey
    • Fixed bug #69033 (Request may get env. variables from previous requests if PHP works as FastCGI).
      Anatol
  • streams

    • Fixed bug which caused call after final close on streams filter.
      Bob

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