PHP 5.2.7 removed from distribution

Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Sam

On December 7th, only days after the release of PHP 5.2.7, PHP.net issued a notice that the 5.2.7 release was no longer available due to a major bug that affects security; requesting a degrade to the 5.2.6 version temporarily. On the 8th, they had the new PHP 5.2.8 release where they explained the fix.

As stated by the release note on PHP.net:

This release addresses a regression introduced by 5.2.7 in regard to the magic_quotes functionality, that was broken by an incorrect fix to the filter extension. All users who have upgraded to 5.2.7 are encouraged to upgrade to this release, alternatively you can apply a work-around for the bug by changing “filter.default_flags=0″ in php.ini.

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2 Responses to “PHP 5.2.7 removed from distribution”

  1. codex73, on March 9th, 2009 at 11:33 am Said:

    What is “magic_quotes” or what does it mean exactly? How does it affect code?

  2. Sam, on March 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm Said:

    magic_quotes is a way for PHP to process the data automatically as it comes into the php-script from the users computer. For more information check out magic_quotes on PHP.net.

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