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 zend 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/.