Patch where_is_fucking_msi_package for Website problem Bug #63513

Patch version 2012-11-14 12:02 UTC

• 2012-11-14 12:02 UTC [diff to current]

Developer: hrokeriksen@gmail.com

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.0. This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.4.0 include:

    New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax and more
    Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
    Support for multibyte languages now available in all builds of PHP at the flip of a runtime switch
    Built-in webserver in CLI mode to simplify development workflows and testing
    Cleaner code base thanks to the removal of multiple deprecated language features
    Many more improvements and fixes

Changes that affect compatibility:

    Register globals, magic quotes and safe mode were removed
    The break/continue $var syntax was removed
    The ini option allow_call_time_pass_reference was removed
    The PHP default_charset is now "UTF-8"

Extensions moved to PECL:

    ext/sqlite (ext/sqlite3 and ext/pdo_sqlite are not affected)

PHP 5.4 series will be the last versions to support Windows XP and Windows 2003. We will not provide binary packages for these Windows versions anymore after PHP 5.4.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.3 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.4.0.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.4.0, see the ChangeLog.
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