Download PHP 5.1.1

The developers of The PHP Group have already released a new release of PHP and gave it the version number 5.1.1. This version follows the previous one at breakneck speed and fixes a number of important bugs. The announcement and list of changes are as follows:

The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.1.1. This is a regression correction release aimed at addressing several issues introduced by PHP 5.1.0, the core changes as follows:

• Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR’s date package.
• Fixed fatal parse error when the last line of the script is a PHP comment.
• eval() hangs when the code being evaluated ends with a comment.
• Usage of \{$var} in PHP 5.1.0 resulted in the output of {$var} instead of the $var variable’s value enclosed in {}.
• Fixed inconsistency in the format of PHP_AUTH_DIGEST between Apache 1 and 2 sapis.
• Improved safe_mode/open_basedir checks inside the cURL extension.

Version 5.1.1:

• Disabled native date class to prevent pear::date conflict. (Ilia)
• Improved safe_mode/open_basedir checks in cURL extension. (Ilia, Jani)
• Changed reflection constants be both PHP and class constants. (John)
• Added an additional field $frame[‘object’] to the result array of debug_backtrace() that contains a reference to the respective object when the frame was called from an object. (Sebastian)
• Fixed bug #35423 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator doesnt appear to recurse with RecursiveFilterIterator). (Mark)
• Fixed bug #35413 (Removed -dev flag from Zend Engine version). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #35411 (Regression with \{$handling). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #35406 (eval hangs when eval’ed code ends with comment w/o newline). (Mark)
• Fixed bug #35391 (pdo_mysql::exec does not return number of affected rows). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #35382 (Comment in end of file produces fatal error). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #35360 (exceptions in interactive mode (php -a) may cause crash).); ?> (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #35358 (Incorrect error messages for PDO class constants). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #35338 (pdo_pgsql does not handle binary bound params). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #35316 (Application exception trying to create COM object). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #35170 (PHP_AUTH_DIGEST differs under Apache 1.x and 2.x). (Ilia)