Now March is going to be a rough month for PHP users however there is a light, PHP 5.2.1 actually fixes a lot of the bugs that will be released during the Month of PHP bugs. So if you haven’t already done so, now is a good time to get yourself upgraded. PHP 5.2.1 was released on February 8 and the Changlog for PHP here gives nothing away and it seems that it even downplays or just gets it plain wrong about the issues.

Stefan Esser is the guy that wrote Suhosin, which is a patch for PHP that is used to harden a PHP installation. There is also a very good chance that Suhosin will also address any bug that is released that was no fixed by the 5.2.1 release of the PHP engine. Stefan comments in his PHP Security blog that many of the bugs identified were found by the Hardened PHP Project and not the PHP developers even though there is no credit given in the PHP release notes for version 5.2.1

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