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PHP 5.6.4

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The latest release of PHP 5.6 is 5.6.40.

Source Code

  • PHP 5.6.4 (tar.bz2)

    • sha256: 576f9001b612f5ddc22f447311bbec321e2c959b6a52259d664c4ba04ef044f1
  • PHP 5.6.4 (tar.gz)

    • sha256: 9c318f10af598e3d0b306a00860cfeb13c34024a9032a59ff53e3cd3c7791e97
  • PHP 5.6.4 (tar.xz)

    • sha256: 8cf44c59f467cdc2dd76c1167d1f368575ccff9b12941e199a362eb44a79acea

Change Log

  • core

    • Fixed bug #68091 (Some Zend headers lack appropriate extern "C" blocks).
      Adam
    • Fixed bug #68104 (Segfault while pre-evaluating a disabled function).
      Laruence
    • Fixed bug #68185 ("Inconsistent insteadof definition."- incorrectly triggered).
      Julien
    • Fixed bug #68355 (Inconsistency in example php.ini comments).
      Chris McCafferty
    • Fixed bug #68370 ("unset($this)" can make the program crash).
      Laruence
    • Fixed bug #68422 (Incorrect argument reflection info for array_multisort()).
      Alexander Lisachenko
    • Fixed bug #68545 (NULL pointer dereference in unserialize.c).
      Anatol
    • Fixed bug #68446 (Array constant not accepted for array parameter default).
      Bob
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #68594 (Use after free vulnerability in unserialize()). (CVE-2014-8142)
      Stefan Esser
  • date

    • Fixed day_of_week function as it could sometimes return negative values internally.
      Derick
  • fpm

    • Fixed bug #68381 (fpm_unix_init_main ignores log_level).
      David Zuelke
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68420 (listen=9000 listens to ipv6 localhost instead of all addresses).
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68421 (access.format='%R' doesn't log ipv6 address).
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68423 (PHP-FPM will no longer load all pools).
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68428 (listen.allowed_clients is IPv4 only).
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68452 (php-fpm man page is oudated).
      Remi
    • Fixed request #68458 (Change pm.start_servers default warning to notice).
      David Zuelke
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68463 (listen.allowed_clients can silently result in no allowed access).
      Remi
    • Fixed request #68391 (php-fpm conf files loading order).
      Florian Margaine
      Remi
    • Fixed bug #68478 (access.log don't use prefix).
      Remi
  • mcrypt

    • Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free.
      Dmitry
  • gmp

    • Fixed bug #68419 (build error with gmp 4.1).
      Remi
  • pdo_pgsql

    • Fixed bug #67462 (PDO_PGSQL::beginTransaction() wrongly throws exception when not in transaction) (Matteo)
    • Fixed bug #68351 (PDO::PARAM_BOOL and ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES misbehaving) (Matteo)
  • session

    • Fixed bug #68331 (Session custom storage callable functions not being called) (Yasuo Ohgaki)
  • soap

    • Fixed bug #68361 (Segmentation fault on SoapClient::__getTypes).
      Laruence
  • zlib

    • Fixed bug #53829 (Compiling PHP with large file support will replace function gzopen by gzopen64) (Sascha Kettler, Matteo)

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