The end of PHP 4
On the magical date 8-8-2008 PHP 4.4.9 was released, the absolutely last release in the PHP4 branche. PHP 4.4.9 has some important security fixes:
- Updated PCRE to version 7.7.
- Fixed overflow in memnstr().
- Fixed crash in imageloadfont when an invalid font is given.
- Fixed open_basedir handling issue in the curl extension.
- Fixed mbstring.func_overload set in .htaccess becomes global.
Support for PHP4 has now officially ended.