Download PHP 4.3.9

The day before yesterday, the team behind PHP gave version 4.3.9 of the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor the green light after two release candidates. In this version fifty non-critical bugs have been fixed and the ability to save images in the GIF format is back in the supplied extension GD. The source code is available in bzip2- and tar.gz-format, for Windows the binaries are available in the flavors zip and installer† The full changelog is here can be found, below according to the release notes:

• Implemented periodic PCRE compiled regexp cache cleanup, to avoid memory exhaustion
• Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle ‘’ characters.
• Rewritten UNIX and Windows install help files.
• Fixed a file-descriptor leak with phpinfo() and other ‘special’ URLs.
• Fixed possible crash inside php_shutdown_config().
• Fixed isset crashes on arrays.
• Fixed imagecreatefromstring() crashes with external GD library.
• Fixed fgetcsv() parsing of strings ending with escaped enclosures.
• Fixed overflow in array_slice(), array_splice(), substr(), substr_replace(), strspn(), strcspn().
• Fixed ‘’ in Authenticate header passed via safe_mode.
• Allow bundled GD to compile against freetype 2.1.2.
• All in all this release fixes over 50 bugs that have been discovered and resolved since the 4.3.8 release.