Download PHP 4.4.6

PHP is a so-called hypertext preprocessor and is mainly used to generate dynamic content in the HTML serverside markup language. The software is often used in combination with the database program MySQL, which serves the dynamic content of websites and forums. The developers of The PHP Group recently released version 4.4.6 with the following announcement:

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.6. This release addresses a crash problem with the session extension when register_globals is turned on that was introduced in PHP 4.4.5. This release also comes with the new version 7.0 of PCRE and it addresses a number of minor bugs.

• Updated PCRE to version 7.0.
• Fixed segfault in ext/session when register_globals=On.
• Fixed bug #40635 (segfault in cURL extension).
• Fixed bug #40611 (possible cURL memory error).
• Fixed bug #40578 (imagettftext() multithreading issue).
• Fixed bug #40502 (ext/interbase compile failure).
• Fixed bug #40286 (PHP fastcgi with PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN don’t kill children when parent is killed).