PHP Release 5.5.6


    PHP 5.5.6 Release Announcement

    The PHP Development Team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.6. This release fixes some bugs against PHP 5.5.5, and adds some performance improvements.

    All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this new version.

    For source downloads of PHP 5.5.6, please visit our downloads page. Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

    Source Code
    PHP 5.5.6 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: a9b7d291199d7e6b90ef1d78eb791d738944d66856e76bde9463ce2645b0e4a4
    PHP 5.5.6 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: 01f9c45154d4c9a47a825aa662bd64493082bd57dafdc720cf899ee194220a67
    PHP 5.5.6 (tar.xz)
    SHA256: 3235a5c15e8fc55498dd80fe43f4aecc51dba35a7fc916aee7ef12d4e1f8767a
    Change Logs
    core
    • Fixed bug #65947 (basename is no more working after fgetcsv in certain situation).
    • Improved performance of array_merge() and func_get_args() by eliminating useless copying.
    • Fixed bug #65939 (Space before ";" breaks php.ini parsing).
    • Fixed bug #65911 (scope resolution operator - strange behavior with $this).
    • Fixed bug #65936 (dangling context pointer causes crash).
    fpm
    • Changed default listen() backlog to 65535.
    • JSON
    • Fixed whitespace part of bug #64874 ("json_decode handles whitespace and case-sensitivity incorrectly").
    mysqli
    • Fixed bug #66043 (Segfault calling bind_param() on mysqli).
    • OPcache
    • Increased limit for opcache.max_accelerated_files to 1,000,000.
    • Fixed issue #115 (path issue when using phar).
    • Fixed issue #149 (Phar mount points not working with OPcache enabled).
    • ODBC
    • Fixed bug #65950 (Field name truncation if the field name is bigger than 32 characters).
    pdo
    • Fixed bug #66033 (Segmentation Fault when constructor of PDO statement throws an exception).
    • Fixed bug 65946
    standard
    • Fixed bug #64760 (var_export() does not use full precision for floating-point numbers)
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