PHP Release 5.6.1


    PHP 5.6.1 Release Announcement

    The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.1. Several bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

    For source downloads of PHP 5.6.1 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 5.6.1 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: 82c1ccd17830d697d7a4d75bb60ea12be58fa80b4dba101e97db1a6372ca45f0
    PHP 5.6.1 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: e34f0ab6b1f431f3115f60094f6d7ded12a90db2361194b8ef9e6eff812db21c
    PHP 5.6.1 (tar.xz)
    SHA256: 57640a700364949292da06e55423f162428a864451d05751a8829ae04d65745e
    Change Logs
    core
    • Implemented FR #38409 (parse_ini_file() looses the type of booleans).
    • Fixed bug #65463 (SIGSEGV during zend_shutdown()).
    • Fixed bug #66036 (Crash on SIGTERM in apache process).
    • Fixed bug #67878 (program_prefix not honoured in man pages).
    • Fixed bug #67938 (Segfault when extending interface method with variadic).
    • Fixed bug #67985 (Incorrect last used array index copied to new array after unset).
    • Fixed bug #68088 (New Posthandler Potential Illegal efree() vulnerability). (Mike)
    dom
    • Made DOMNode::textContent writeable.
    fileinfo
    • Fixed bug #67731 (finfo::file() returns invalid mime type for binary files).
    gd
    • Made fontFetch's path parser thread-safe.
    gmp
    • Fixed bug #67917 (Using GMP objects with overloaded operators can cause memory exhaustion).
    • Fixed bug #50175 (gmp_init() results 0 on given base and number starting with 0x or 0b).
    • Implemented gmp_import() and gmp_export().
    mysqli
    • Fixed bug #67839 (mysqli does not handle 4-byte floats correctly).
    openssl
    • Fixed bug #67850 (extension won't build if openssl compiled without SSLv3).
    phpdbg
    • Fixed issue krakjoe/phpdbg#111 (compile error without ZEND_SIGNALS).
    soap
    • Fixed bug #67955 (SoapClient prepends 0-byte to cookie names).
    session
    • Fixed bug #67972 (SessionHandler Invalid memory read create_sid()).
    sysvsem
    • Implemented FR #67990 (Add optional nowait argument to sem_acquire).
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