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PHP 8.5 (8.5.4)

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A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

 

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

What distinguishes PHP from something like client-side JavaScript is that the code is executed on the server, generating HTML which is then sent to the client. The client would receive the results of running that script, but would not know what the underlying code was. You can even configure your web server to process all your HTML files with PHP, and then there’s really no way that users can tell what you have up your sleeve.

The best things in using PHP are that it is extremely simple for a newcomer, but offers many advanced features for a professional programmer. Don’t be afraid reading the long list of PHP’s features. You can jump in, in a short time, and start writing simple scripts in a few hours.

PHP 8.5.4 Released!

Core:

  • Fixed bug GH-21029 (zend_mm_heap corrupted on Aarch64, LTO builds).
  • Fixed bug GH-21059 (Segfault when preloading constant AST closure).
  • Fixed bug GH-21072 (Crash on (unset) cast in constant expression).
  • Fix deprecation now showing when accessing null key of an array with JIT.
  • Fixed bug GH-20657 (Assertion failure in zend_lazy_object_get_info triggered by setRawValueWithoutLazyInitialization() and newLazyGhost()).
  • Fixed bug GH-20504 (Assertion failure in zend_get_property_guard when accessing properties on Reflection LazyProxy via isset()).
  • Fixed OSS-Fuzz #478009707 (Borked assign-op/inc/dec on untyped hooked property backing value).
  • Fixed bug GH-21215 (Build fails with -std=).
  • Fixed bug GH-13674 (Build system installs libtool wrappers when using slibtool).

Curl: Don’t truncate length.

  • Fixed bug GH-20936 (DatePeriod::__set_state() cannot handle null start).
  • Fix timezone offset with seconds losing precision.

DOM:

  • Fixed bug GH-21077 (Accessing Dom\Node::baseURI can throw TypeError).
  • Fixed bug GH-21097 (Accessing Dom\Node properties can can throw TypeError).

LDAP:

  • Fixed bug GH-21262 (ldap_modify() too strict controls argument validation makes it impossible to unset attribute).

MBString:

  • Fixed bug GH-21223; mb_guess_encoding no longer crashes when passed huge list of candidate encodings (with 200,000+ entries).

Opcache:

  • Fixed bug GH-20718 (“Insufficient shared memory” when using JIT on Solaris).
  • Fixed bug GH-21227 (Borked SCCP of array containing partial object).

OpenSSL:

  • Fix a bunch of leaks and error propagation.

Windows:

  • Fixed compilation with clang (missing intrin.h include).

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