PHP Release 7.4.8


    PHP 7.4.8 Release Announcement

    The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.8. This is a security release impacting the official Windows builds of PHP.

    For windows users running an official build, this release contains a patched version of libcurl addressing CVE-2020-8169.

    For all other consumers of PHP, this is a bug fix release.

    All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

    For source downloads of PHP 7.4.8 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

    Source Code
    PHP 7.4.8 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: 6a48d3a605c003b088984ceb53be5df1e698b8b35ddacadd12fe50f49c0e8062
    PHP 7.4.8 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: 649f6bcdb60dc38d5edd7f3a7b2905d15d88c1d13e40307e8972ede347cea6ba
    PHP 7.4.8 (tar.xz)
    SHA256: 642843890b732e8af01cb661e823ae01472af1402f211c83009c9b3abd073245
    Change Logs
    core
    • Fixed bug #79595 (zend_init_fpu() alters FPU precision).
    • Fixed bug #79650 (php-win.exe 100% cpu lockup).
    • Fixed bug #79668 (get_defined_functions(true) may miss functions).
    • Fixed bug #79683 (Fake reflection scope affects __toString()).
    • Fixed possibly unsupported timercmp() usage.
    exif
    • Fixed bug #79687 (Sony picture - PHP Warning - Make, Model, MakerNotes).
    fileinfo
    • Fixed bug #79681 (mime_content_type/finfo returning incorrect mimetype).
    filter
    • Fixed bug #73527 (Invalid memory access in php_filter_strip).
    gd
    • Fixed bug #79676 (imagescale adds black border with IMG_BICUBIC).
    openssl
    • Fixed bug #62890 (default_socket_timeout=-1 causes connection to timeout).
    pdo sqlite
    • Fixed bug #79664 (PDOStatement::getColumnMeta fails on empty result set).
    phpdbg
    • Fixed bug #73926 (phpdbg will not accept input on restart execution).
    • Fixed bug #73927 (phpdbg fails with windows error prompt at "watch array").
    • Fixed several mostly Windows related phpdbg bugs.
    spl
    • Fixed bug #79710 (Reproducible segfault in error_handler during GC involved an SplFileObject).
    standard
    • Fixed bug #74267 (segfault with streams and invalid data).
    • Fixed bug #79579 (ZTS build of PHP 7.3.17 doesn't handle ERANGE for posix_getgrgid and others).
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