A large number of fixes have been implemented in this version

Oct 19, 2012 13:51 GMT  ·  By

PHP, an HTML-embedded scripting language with syntax borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in, is now at version 5.4.8.

PHP 5.4.8 comes with a huge list of new features, updates and bug fixes, and is a major leap in the 5.x series.

Highlights of PHP 5.4.8:

• Changed response to unknown HTTP method to 501 according to RFC; • Support for HTTP PATCH method has been added; • optional second argument has been added for assert() to specify custom message; • --offline option for tests has been added; • Passing null as a default value to mb_substr() and mb_strcut() is now allowed; • Segfault while load extension no longer fails in zts-build.

You can check out the official changelog here.

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