PHP 5.4

Changes in SAPI modules

  • A new SAPI module named cli-server is now available.
  • Added CLI option --rz which shows information of the named Zend extension.
  • Added shortcut #inisetting=value to change php.ini settings at run-time in interactive readline CLI
  • Added apache compatible functions: apache_child_terminate(), getallheaders(), apache_request_headers() and apache_response_headers() for FastCGI SAPI.
  • PHP-FPM: Added the process.max setting, to control the number of processes that FPM can fork.

PHP 5.3

Changes in SAPI modules

  • A new SAPI module named litespeed is now available.
  • FastCGI support in the CGI SAPI is now always enabled and can not be disabled. See sapi/cgi/CHANGES for more details.
  • A new CGI SAPI option, -T, can be used to measure repeated execution time of a script.
  • CGI/FastCGI now has support for .htaccess-style user-defined php.ini files.
  • The dl() function is now disabled by default, and is now available only under the CLI, CGI, and embed SAPIs.