PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it
easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also
offers built-in database integration for several commercial and
non-commercial database management systems, so writing a
database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common
use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.
Update Information:
**PHP version 8.2.9** (03 Aug 2023) **Build:** * Fixed bug
[GH-11522](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11522) (PHP version check fails
with '-' separator). (SVGAnimate) **CLI:** * Fix interrupted CLI output
causing the process to exit. (nielsdos) **Core:** * Fixed oss-fuzz php#60011
(Mis-compilation of by-reference nullsafe operator). (ilutov) * Fixed line
number of JMP instruction over else block. (ilutov) * Fixed use-of-
uninitialized-value with ??= on assert. (ilutov) * Fixed oss-fuzz php#60411 (Fix
double-compilation of arrow-functions). (ilutov) * Fixed build for FreeBSD
before the 11.0 releases. (David Carlier) **Curl:** * Fix crash when an
invalid callback function is passed to CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION. (nielsdos)
**Date:** * Fixed bug [GH-11368](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11368)
(Date modify returns invalid datetime). (Derick) * Fixed bug
[GH-11600](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11600) (Can't parse time
strings which include (narrow) non-breaking space characters). (Derick) * Fixed
bug [GH-11854](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11854)
(DateTime:createFromFormat stopped parsing datetime with extra space).
(nielsdos, Derick) **DOM:** * Fixed bug [GH-11625](https://github.com/php/php-
src/issues/11625) (DOMElement::replaceWith() doesn't replace node with
DOMDocumentFragment but just deletes node or causes wrapping <>> depending on
libxml2 version). (nielsdos) **Fileinfo:** * Fixed bug
[GH-11298](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11298) (finfo returns wrong
mime type for xz files). (Anatol) **FTP:** * Fix context option check for
"overwrite". (JonasQuinten) * Fixed bug [GH-10562](https://github.com/php/php-
src/issues/10562) (Memory leak and invalid state with consecutive ftp_nb_fget).
(nielsdos) **GD:** * Fix most of the external libgd test failures. (Michael
Orlitzky) **Intl:** * Fix memory leak in MessageFormatter::format() on
failure. (Girgias) **Libxml:** * Fixed bug
[GHSA-3qrf-m4j2-pcrr](https://github.com/php/php-
src/security/advisories/GHSA-3qrf-m4j2-pcrr) (Security issue with external
entity loading in XML without enabling it). (**CVE-2023-3823**) (nielsdos,
ilutov) **MBString:** * Fix [GH-11300](https://github.com/php/php-
src/issues/11300) (license issue: restricted unicode license headers).
(nielsdos) **Opcache:** * Fixed bug [GH-10914](https://github.com/php/php-
src/issues/10914) (OPCache with Enum and Callback functions results in
segmentation fault). (nielsdos) * Prevent potential deadlock if accelerated
globals cannot be allocated. (nielsdos) **PCNTL:** * Fixed bug
[GH-11498](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11498) (SIGCHLD is not always
returned from proc_open). (nielsdos) **PDO:** * Fix
[GH-11587](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11587) (After php8.1, when
PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES is true and PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES is true,
decimal zeros are no longer filled). (SakiTakamachi) **PDO SQLite:** * Fix
[GH-11492](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11492) (Make test failure:
ext/pdo_sqlite/tests/bug_42589.phpt). (KapitanOczywisty, CViniciusSDias)
**Phar:** * Add missing check on EVP_VerifyUpdate() in phar util. (nielsdos) *
Fixed bug [GHSA-jqcx-ccgc-xwhv](https://github.com/php/php-
src/security/advisories/GHSA-jqcx-ccgc-xwhv) (Buffer mismanagement in
phar_dir_read()). (**CVE-2023-3824**) (nielsdos) **PHPDBG:** * Fixed bug
[GH-9669](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/9669) (phpdbg -h options doesn't
list the -z option). (adsr) **Session:** * Removed broken url support for
transferring session ID. (ilutov) **Standard:** * Fix serialization of RC1
objects appearing in object graph twice. (ilutov) **Streams:** * Fixed bug
[GH-11735](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11735) (Use-after-free when
unregistering user stream wrapper from itself). (ilutov) **SQLite3:** * Fix
replaced error handling in SQLite3Stmt::__construct. (nielsdos) **XMLReader:**
* Fix [GH-11548](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11548) (Argument
corruption when calling XMLReader::open or XMLReader::XML non-statically with
observer active). (Bob)