PHP Release 5.5.8


    PHP 5.5.8 Release Announcement

    The PHP Development Team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.8. This release fixes about 20 bugs against PHP 5.5.7.

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

    For source downloads of PHP 5.5.8, 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 5.5.8 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: 6d5f45659d13383fc8429f185cc9da0b30c7bb72dcae9baf568f0511eb7f8b68
    PHP 5.5.8 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: 67c74a9a2357dc65f5b1701cadb574f1309c4c3a20a2a5c56aeae4c4be90f2f8
    Change Logs
    core
    • Disallowed JMP into a finally block.
    • Added validation of class names in the autoload process.
    • Fixed invalid C code in zend_strtod.c.
    • Fixed ZEND_MM_MEM_TYPE=mmap_zero.
    • Fixed bug #66041 (list() fails to unpack yielded ArrayAccess object).
    • Fixed bug #65764 (generators/throw_rethrow FAIL with ZEND_COMPILE_EXTENDED_INFO).
    • Fixed bug #61645 (fopen and O_NONBLOCK).
    • Fixed bug #66218 (zend_register_functions breaks reflection).
    date
    • Fixed bug #66060 (Heap buffer over-read in DateInterval) (CVE-2013-6712).
    • Fixed bug #65768 (DateTimeImmutable::diff does not work).
    dom
    • Fixed bug #65196 (Passing DOMDocumentFragment to DOMDocument::saveHTML() Produces invalid Markup).
    exif
    • Fixed bug #65873 (Integer overflow in exif_read_data()).
    filter
    • Fixed bug #66229 (128.0.0.0/16 isn't reserved any longer).
    gd
    • Fixed bug #64405 (Use freetype-config for determining freetype2 dir(s)).
    pdo_odbc
    • Fixed bug #66311 (Stack smashing protection kills PDO/ODBC queries).
    mysqli
    • Fixed bug #65486 (mysqli_poll() is broken on win x64).
    opcache
    • Fixed revalidate_path=1 behavior to avoid caching of symlinks values.
    • Fixed Issue #140: "opcache.enable_file_override" doesn't respect "opcache.revalidate_freq". .
    snmp
    • Fixed SNMP_ERR_TOOBIG handling for bulk walk operations.
    • SOAP
    • Fixed bug #66112 (Use after free condition in SOAP extension).
    sockets
    • Fixed bug #65923 (ext/socket assumes AI_V4MAPPED is defined).
    • XSL
    • Fixed bug #49634 (Segfault throwing an exception in a XSL registered function).
    zip
    • Fixed Bug #66321 (ZipArchive::open() ze_obj->filename_len not real).
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