PHP 4.3.2 Release Announcement

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After a lengthy QA process, PHP 4.3.2 is finally out!
This maintenance release solves a lot of bugs found in earlier PHP versions and is a strongly recommended upgrade for all users of PHP.

Bugfix release

PHP 4.3.2 contains, among others, following important fixes, additions and improvements:

• Fixes several potentially hazardous integer and buffer overflows.
• Fixes for several 64-bit problems.
• New Apache 2.0 SAPI module (sapi/apache2handler, enabled with --with-apxs2).
• New session_regenerate_id() function. (Important feature against malicious session planting).
• Improvements to dba extension.
• Improvements to thttpd SAPI module.
• Dropped support for GDLIB version 1.x.x (php_gd.dll) on Windows.
• An unix man page for CLI version of PHP.
• New "disable_classes" php.ini option to allow administrators to disable certain classes for security reasons.
• ..and a HUGE amount of other bug fixes!

For a full list of changes in PHP 4.3.2, see the ChangeLog.