PHP 5.3.7 upgrade warning & PHP 5.3.8 security fix
By Cyrille Mahieux on Tuesday, August 23 2011, 22:27 - PHP - Permalink
Two issues that were introduced in PHP 5.3.7 two days ago are now fixed in the newest release 5.3.8.
You should not use version 5.3.7 and are encouraged to upgrade to release 5.3.8.
Release notes
Core:
- Fixed bug #55439 (crypt() returns only the salt for MD5).
OpenSSL:
- Reverted a change in timeout handling restoring PHP 5.3.6 behavior, as the new behavior caused mysqlnd SSL connections to hang (#55283).
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.8 & 5.3.7, see the ChangeLog.
