Last month was marked by the release of two PHP versions : 5.3 alpha1 and 4.4.9. Yes it’s a PHP4 again but this time it’s the last one in the four Branch.
No new features in PHP4, except the update of PCRE to version 7.7, all other changes are security enhancements :
- Fixed overflow in memnstr().
- Fixed crash in imageloadfont when an invalid font is given.
- Fixed open_basedir handling issue in the curl extension.
- Fixed mbstring.func_overload set in .htaccess becomes global.
You might understand that time of PHP4 is over and time PHP5 have began, but this have been said, PHP4 remain stable and faster than PHP5. And anyway PHP4 marked the best times of PHP when the languages moved from a small scripting language to a high level scripting language that currently powering many popular websites such Yahoo, Facebook, and many others.
