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PHP is one of the most widely used languages for web development. One of the most remarkable things about PHP is its continuous updates in its versions. Right from January 2012 to July 2012, PHP has already introduced several changes, especially in versions 5.3.0 and 5.4.0.
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PHPisoneofthemostwidelyusedlanguagesforwebdevelopment.OneofthemostremarkablethingsaboutPHPisitscontinuousupdatesinitsversions.RightfromJanuary2012toJuly2012,PHPhasalreadyintroducedseveralchanges,especiallyinversions5.3.0and5.4.0.
PHPisascriptinglanguagethatiswidelyusedbywebdeveloperstobuilddynamicwebpages.Surveysestimatethatitisinstalledonmorethan1millionwebserversand20millionwebsites.OneofthemostremarkablethingsaboutPHPisthecontinuousupdatesthatitkeepsintroducingtoitsseveralversions.Herearesomeupdatesthatithasintroducedtoseveralversionsintheyear2012.
Release of PHP 5.3.9 with improved stability of PHP 5.3.x. More than 90 bugs were fixed, and some of them were security related Release of PHP 5.3.10 that fixed a critical security issue, which was arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability
Release of PHP 5.4.0, which was a major leap in the 5.x series. It included several new features along with bug fixes. The key new features included traits, shortened array syntax, and a built-in web server for testing purpose PHP source code migrates from Subversion to Git
Release of PHP 5.3.11 and PHP 5.4.1. These updates improved stability of the current PHP branches and had over 60 bug fixes Release of PHP 5.3.12 and PHP 5.4.2. Some major security issues were fixed in this one Release of PHP 5.3.13 and PHP 5.4.3 that included a complete fix for vulnerability in CGI-based steps. It also fixed buffer overflow vulnerability in PHP 5.4.3
Release of PHP 5.4.4 and 5.3.14. These releases fixed multiple security issues that included weakness in DES implementation of crypt and a heap overflow issue in an extension Release of PHP 5.4.5 and 5.4.15. This is by far the latest release of July. PHP 5.4.5 featuresseveral significant changes. More than 30 bugs have been fixed including a fix for security related overflow issue in the stream implementation.