Download PHP 5.3.4 / 5.2.15

PHP calls itself a hypertext pre-processor and is mainly used to generate dynamic content in the HTML markup language server side. The software is often used in combination with the database program MySQL, which serves the dynamic content of websites and forums. The developers have released versions 5.3.4 and 5.2.15 that improve stability and address several security issues. The announcements of these releases are as follows:

PHP 5.3.4 Released!

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.4. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.4:

• Fixed crash in zip extract method (possible CWE-170).
• Paths with NULL in them (foo\0bar.txt) are now considered as invalid (CVE-2006-7243).
• Fixed a possible double free in imap extension (Identified by Mateusz Kocielski). (CVE-2010-4150).
• Fixed NULL pointer dereference in ZipArchive::getArchiveComment. (CVE-2010-3709).
• Fixed possible flaw in open_basedir (CVE-2010-3436).
• Fixed MOPS-2010-24, fix string validation. (CVE-2010-2950).
• Fixed symbolic resolution support when the target is a DFS share.
• Fixed bug #52929 (Segfault in filter_var with FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL with large amount of data) (CVE-2010-3710).

Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.4 include:

• Added stat support for zip stream.
• Added follow_location (enabled by default) option for the http stream support.
• Added a 3rd parameter to get_html_translation_table. It now takes a charset hint, like htmlentities et al.
• Implemented FR #52348, added new constant ZEND_MULTIBYTE to detect send multibyte at runtime.
• Multiple improvements to the FPM SAPI.
• Over 100 other bug fixes.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3. For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.4, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

PHP 5.2.15 Released!

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.15. This release marks the end of support for PHP 5.2. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.

This release focuses on improving the security and stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with a small number, of predominatly security fixes.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.15:

• Fixed extract() to do not overwrite $GLOBALS and $this when using EXTR_OVERWRITE.
• Fixed crash in zip extract method (possible CWE-170).
• Fixed a possible double free in imap extension.
• Fixed possible flaw in open_basedir (CVE-2010-3436).
• Fixed NULL pointer dereference in ZipArchive::getArchiveComment. (CVE-2010-3709).
• Fixed bug #52929 (Segfault in filter_var with FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL with large amount of data).

Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.15 include:

• Fixed bug #47643 (array_diff() takes over 3000 times longer than php 5.2.4).
• Fixed bug #44248 (RFC2616 transgression while HTTPS request through proxy with SoapClient object).

To prepare for upgrading to PHP 5.3, now that PHP 5.2’s support ended, a migration guide available on details the changes between PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.15 see the ChangeLog at