[01-Jun-2007] The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.3. This release continues to improve the security and the stability of the 5.X branch as well as addressing two regressions introduced by the previous 5.2 releases. These regressions relate to the timeout handling over non-blocking SSL connections and the lack of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in certain conditions. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.3 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.3, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.3:

* Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split() (by Gerhard Wagner, CVE-2007-2872)
* Fixed possible infinite loop in imagecreatefrompng. (by Xavier Roche, CVE-2007-2756)
* Fixed ext/filter Email Validation Vulnerability (MOPB-45 by Stefan Esser, CVE-2007-1900)
* Fixed bug #41492 (open_basedir/safe_mode bypass inside realpath()) (by bugs dot php dot net at chsc dot dk)
* Improved fix for CVE-2007-1887 to work with non-bundled sqlite2 lib.
* Added mysql_set_charset() to allow runtime altering of connection encoding.

For users upgrading to PHP 5.2 from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1, an upgrade guide is available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.2.3.

Found a neat way to post my pics straight into the sidebar of my blog! Interested? Comment and i may reveal 😉

Whats been happeng the last few days? well ive been VERY busy.. its just days to go now til we get married and fly to Spain 😀 Ive been workin everyday as the other chap on my dept has been in Turkey..so Sat was my first day off! So.. I spent a couple of hours with my old friend PHP and came up with 15 lines of the coolest code!
Its going to be a map/mod download script for the online FPS gaming community but it could be used for basically any downloads that change date..

for example you have a DIR that you release your maps/mod updates into..you open the script in that DIR and it automagically shows you the latest file..its filesize..gives you a link to download it..and even starts the download after 5 seconds!! Also the script shows all the other files in the DIR with download links incase you need an older version or another map.

I’m not quite sure of a name for this script, its early days yet..just the core at 15 lines of code :O I’m open to suggestions about improvements or integration into other scripts/sites. I’m going to release it as an early alpha.

http://www.pross.org.uk/downloader/