RSS feed30 Jun 2009
The people from PHP have released a new version. I’ve downloaded it right away and installed and tested it on all my test machines and haven’t found any problem yet. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
- Support for namespaces
- Late static binding
- Lambda Functions and Closures
- Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut “?:” and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()
- Under the hood performance improvements
- Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
- Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
- Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries as well as portability to other supported platforms
- More consistent float rounding
- Deprecation notices are now handled via
E_DEPRECATED(part ofE_ALL) instead of theE_STRICTerror level - Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini parsing in general)
- New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo, ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
- Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to: ext/openssl, ext/spl and ext/date
This release also drops several extensions and unifies the usage of internal APIs. Users should be aware of the following known backwards compatibility breaks:
- Parameter parsing API unification will cause some functions to behave more or less strict when it comes to type juggling
- Removed the following extensions: ext/mhash (see ext/hash), ext/msql, ext/pspell (see ext/enchant), ext/sybase (see ext/sybase_ct)
- Moved the following extensions to PECL: ext/ming, ext/fbsql, ext/ncurses, ext/fdf
- Removed zend.ze1_compatibility_mode
For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.0, see the ChangeLog.
For instructions on how to upgrade PHP please read: Upgrading PHP.
11:37 pm
Since upgrading to PHP 5.3.0 I’m getting errors like”Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /Library/WebServer/Documents/postfixadmin-2.2.1.1/variables.inc.php on line 20″ and “[Mon Aug 03 16:00:45 2009] [error] [client ::1] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare quoted_printable_encode() in /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail-0.2.2/program/include/rcube_imap.php on line 3134, referer: http://localhost/roundcubemail-0.2.2/installer/index.php?_step=3“.
This has got to be a result the new PHP doesn’t it? Looks like I need to downgrade to me. Think that will solve these types of errors?
8:20 am
Larry, going back to a previous release is an option. But while testing postfixadmin 2.2.1.1 i didn’t see any problems in the user interface when using it. Haven’t tested roundcube but the roundcube forums have noted the problem but no solution yet.