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4site_header("PHP 5.3.1 Release Announcement");
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6
7<h1>PHP 5.3.1 Release Announcement</h1>
8<p>
9The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP
105.3.1. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a
11large number of bug fixes.
12</p>
13
14<p>
15<b>Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.1:</b>
16</p>
17<ul>
18  <li>Added "max_file_uploads" INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion.</li>
19  <li>Added missing sanity checks around exif processing.</li>
20  <li>Fixed a safe_mode bypass in tempnam().</li>
21  <li>Fixed a open_basedir bypass in posix_mkfifo().</li>
22  <li>Fixed bug #50063 (safe_mode_include_dir fails).</li>
23  <li>Fixed bug #44683 (popen crashes when an invalid mode is passed).</li>
24</ul>
25
26<p>
27<b>Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.1 include:</b>
28</p>
29<ul>
30  <li>Fixed crash in com_print_typeinfo when an invalid typelib is given.</li>
31  <li>Fixed crash in SQLiteDatabase::ArrayQuery() and SQLiteDatabase::SingleQuery() when calling using Reflection.</li>
32  <li>Fixed crash when instantiating PDORow and PDOStatement through Reflection.</li>
33  <li>Fixed bug #49910 (no support for ././@LongLink for long filenames in phar
34  tar support).</li>
35  <li>Fixed bug #49908 (throwing exception in __autoload crashes when interface is not defined).</li>
36  <li>Around 100 other bug fixes</li>
37</ul>
38
39<p>
40For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide
41available <a href="http://php.net/migration53">here</a>, detailing
42the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.
43</p>
44
45<p>
46 For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.1, see the
47 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.1">ChangeLog</a>.
48</p>
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