Significant Changes of PHP from January 2012 to July 2012

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Significant Changes of PHP from January 2012 to
July 2012
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• PHP is one of the most widely used languages
  for web development. One of the most remarkable
  things about PHP is its continuous updates in its
  versions. Right from January 2012 to July 2012,
  PHP has already introduced several changes,
  especially in versions 5.3.0 and 5.4.0.

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• PHP is a scripting language that is widely
  used by web developers to build dynamic web
  pages. Surveys estimate that it is installed on
  more than 1 million web servers and 20 million
  websites. One of the most remarkable things about
  PHP is the continuous updates that it keeps
  introducing to its several versions. Here are
  some updates that it has introduced to several
  versions in the year 2012.

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• Release of PHP 5.3.9 with improved stability of
  PHP 5.3.x. More than 90 bugs were fixed, and some
  of them were security related
• Release of PHP 5.3.10 that fixed a critical
  security issue, which was arbitrary remote code
  execution vulnerability

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• Release of PHP 5.4.0, which was a major leap in
  the 5.x series. It included several new features
  along with bug fixes. The key new features
  included traits, shortened array syntax, and a
  built-in web server for testing purpose
• PHP source code migrates from Subversion to Git

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• Release of PHP 5.3.11 and PHP 5.4.1. These
  updates improved stability of the current PHP
  branches and had over 60 bug fixes
• Release of PHP 5.3.12 and PHP 5.4.2. Some major
  security issues were fixed in this one
• Release of PHP 5.3.13 and PHP 5.4.3 that included
  a complete fix for vulnerability in CGI-based
  steps. It also fixed buffer overflow
  vulnerability in PHP 5.4.3

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• Release of PHP 5.4.4 and 5.3.14. These releases
  fixed multiple security issues that included
  weakness in DES implementation of crypt and a
  heap overflow issue in an extension
• Release of PHP 5.4.5 and 5.4.15. This is by far
  the latest release of July. PHP 5.4.5 features
  several significant changes. More than 30 bugs
  have been fixed including a fix for security
  related overflow issue in the stream
  implementation.

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