Archive for February, 2009

PHP 5.2.9 is out!

Posted in News | Friday, February 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

It’s only been awhile since PHP 5.2.8 was out and it’s in with the new and out with the old once more:

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 50 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

The new PHP 5.2.9 has the following fixes and security enhancements:

* Fixed the security issue in imagerotate(), where the background colour is not correctly validated with a non true colour image.
* Fixed a crash regarding extracting in zip when files or directories’ entry names have a relative path.
* Fixed explode() behavior with an empty string that respects the negative limit.
* Fixed a segfault when malformed string is passed on to json_decode().

For more information, you can read more of the details of this latest PHP version here.