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2$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'releases/4_3_3.php';
3include_once __DIR__ . '/../include/prepend.inc';
4site_header("PHP 4.3.3 Release Announcement");
5?>
6
7<h1>PHP 4.3.3 Release Announcement</h1>
8
9<p>[ <a href="/releases/4_3_3_fr.php">Version Fran&ccedil;aise</a> ]</p>
10
11<p>
12 After a lengthy QA process, <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.3.3</a> is finally out!<br>
13 This maintenance release solves a fair number of bugs found in prior PHP versions and
14 addresses several security issues. All users are <strong>strongly</strong> advised to
15 upgrade to 4.3.3 as soon as possible.
16</p>
17
18<h2>Bugfix release</h2>
19
20<p>
21 PHP 4.3.3 contains, among others, following important fixes, additions and improvements:
22</p>
23
24<ul>
25 <li>Improved the engine to use POSIX/socket IO where feasible.</li>
26 <li>Fixed several potentially hazardous integer and buffer overflows.</li>
27 <li>Fixed corruption of multibyte character including 0x5c as second byte in multipart/form-data.</li>
28 <li>Fixed each() to be binary safe for keys.</li>
29 <li>Major improvements to the NSAPI SAPI.</li>
30 <li>Improvements to the IMAP extension.</li>
31 <li>Improvements to the InterBase extension.</li>
32 <li>Added DBA handler 'inifile' to support ini files.</li>
33 <li>Added long options into CLI & CGI (e.g. --version).</li>
34 <li>Added a new parameter to preg_match*() that can be used to specify the starting offset in the subject string to match from.</li>
35 <li>Upgraded the bundled Expat library to version 1.95.6</li>
36 <li>Upgraded the bundled PCRE library to version 4.3</li>
37 <li>Upgraded the bundled GD library to version GD 2.0.15</li>
38
39 <li>Over 100 various bug fixes!</li>
40</ul>
41
42<p>
43 For a full list of changes in PHP 4.3.3, see the
44 <a href="/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.3">ChangeLog</a>.
45</p>
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