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-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.2 - 2009/03/16
-
-This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced since
-version 2.2.1.
-Regardless of the intimitading message about dropping PHP 4 support, it still does
-support that ancient, broken and insecure platform.
-
-* fixed: php warning when receiving 'false' in a bool value
-* fixed: improve robustness of the debugger when parsing weird results from non-compliant servers
-* fixed: format floating point values using the correct decimal separator even when php locale is set to one that uses comma
-* fixed: use feof() to test if socket connections are to be closed instead of the number of bytes read (rare bug when communicating with some servers)
-* fixed: be more tolerant in detection of charset in http headers
-* fixed: fix encoding of UTF8 chars outside of the BMP plane
-* fixed: fix detection of zlib.output_compression
-* improved: allow the add_to_map server method to add docs for single params too
-* improved: added the possibility to wrap for exposure as xmlrpc	methods plain php class methods, object methods and even whole classes
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.1 - 2008/03/06
-
-This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced.
-It is the last release of the library that will support PHP 4.
-
-* fixed: work aroung bug in php 5.2.2 which broke support of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
-* fixed: is_dir parameter of setCaCertificate() method is reversed
-* fixed: a php warning in xmlrpc_client creator method
-* fixed: parsing of '1e+1' as valid float
-* fixed: allow errorlevel 3 to work when prev. error handler was a static method
-* fixed: usage of client::setcookie() for multiple cookies in non-ssl mode
-* improved: support for CP1252 charset is not part or the library but almost possible
-* improved: more info when curl is enabled and debug mode is on
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2 - 2007/02/25
-
-This release corrects a couple of bugs and adds a few minor features.
-
-* fixed: debugger errors on php installs with magic_quotes_gpc on
-* fixed: support for https connections via proxy
-* fixed: wrap_xmlrpc_method() generated code failed to properly encode php objects
-* improved: slightly faster encoding of data which is internally UTF-8
-* improved: debugger always generates a 'null' id for jsonrpc if user omits it
-* new: debugger can take advantage of a graphical value builder
-  (it has to be downloaded separately, as part of jsxmlrpc package)
-* new: support for the <NIL/> xmlrpc extension
-* new: server support for the system.getCapabilities xmlrpc extension
-* new: wrap_xmlrpc_method() accepts two new options: debug and return_on_fault
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.1 - 2006/08/28
-
-This release corrects quite a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
-There is a minor security enhancement and overall speedup too.
-
-It has been tested with PHP 4.0.5 up to 4.4.4 and 5.1.5.
-Please note that 404pl1 is NOT supported, and has not been since 2.0.
-
-*** PLASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW ***
-
-CHANGES THAT MIGHT AFFECT DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS:
-
-The wrap_php_function and wrap_xmlrpc_method functions have been moved out of
-the base library file xmlrpc.inc into a file of their own: xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
-You will have to include() / require() it in your scripts if you have been using
-those functions.
-
-For increased security, the automatic rebuilding of php object instances out of
-received xmlrpc structs in wrap_xmlrpc_method() has been disabled (but it can be
-optionally reenabled).
-
-The constructor of xmlrpcval() values has seen major changes, and it will not
-throw a php warning anymore when invoked using an unknown xmlrpc type: the
-error will only be written to php error log. Also new xmlrpcval('true', 'boolean')
-is not supported anymore.
-
-MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS:
-
-The new function php_xmlrpc_decode_xml() will take the xml representation of
-either an xmlrpc request, response or single value and return the corresponding
-php-xmlrpc object instance.
-
-Both wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method() functions accept many more
-options to fine tune their behaviour, including one to return the php code to
-be saved and later used as standalone php script.
-
-A new function wrap_xmlrpc_server() has been added, to wrap all (or some) of the
-methods exposed by a remote xmlrpc server into a php class.
-
-Lib internals have been modified to provide better support for grafting extra
-functionality on top of it. Stay tuned for future releases of the EXTRAS package.
-
-Last but not least a new file has been added: verify_compat.php, to help users
-diagnose the level of compliance of the current php install with the library.
-
-CHANGELOG IN DETAIL:
-
-* fixed bug 1311927: client not playing nice with some proxy/firewall on ports != 80
-* fixed bug 1334340: all ereg_ functions have been replaced with corresponding preg_
-* fixed bug: wrong handling of 'deflate' http encoding, both server and client side
-* fixed bug: sending compressed responses when php output compression is enabled was not working
-* fixed bug: addarray() and addstruct() where not returning 1 when adding data to already initialized values
-* fixed bug: non-ascii chars used in struct element names where not being encoded correctly
-* restored compatibility with php 4.0.5 (for those poor souls still stuck on it)
-* server->service() now returns either the payload or xmlrpcresp instance
-* server->add_to_map() now accepts methods with no param definitions
-* added new function: php_xmlrpc_decode_xml()
-* added new function: wrap_xmlrpc_server()
-* major improvements and security enhancements to wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method()
-* documentation for single parameters of exposed methods can be added to the dispatch map
-  (and turned into html docs in conjunction with a future release of the extras package)
-* full response payload is saved into xmlrpcresp object for further debugging
-* stricter parsing of incmoing xmlrpc messages: two more invalid cases are now detected
-  (double data element inside array and struct/array after scalar inside value element)
-* debugger can now generate code that wraps a remote method into php function (works for jsonrpc, too)
-* debugger has better support for being activated via a single GET call (for integration into other tools?)
-* more logging of errors in a lot of situations
-* javadoc documentation of lib files almost complete
-* the usual amount of new testcases in the testsuite
-* many performance tweaks and code cleanups
-* added foundation for emulating the API of the xmlrpc extension (extras package needed)
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/24
-
-I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final.
-
-With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small
-bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and
-ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff);
-all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added,
-including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc
-client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations;
-both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes.
-The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities.
-
-In greater detail:
-
-* fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work
-* fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that
-  has return_type=phpvals
-* fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error
-* fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF8 charset
-* fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii
-  chars where found when decoding
-* new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1
-  connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too
-* new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead
-  of an xmlrpcresp
-* new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user
-  coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log
-* new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against
-* new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values
-  (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec)
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22
-
-This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
-It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2.
-
-* fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression
-* fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding
-  set to UTF-8
-* fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce
-  invalid xml-rpc
-* new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map
-* new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects
-* new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing
-  values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'.
-  Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
-* new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions
-  that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory
-  (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details)
-* new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to
-  screen before being sent
-* new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for
-  easier testing / subclassing
-* changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64
-  encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem
-* other minor fixes
-
-The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new
-parameters added to some functions.
-Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot.
-The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more
-logical organization.
-
-The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be
-packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human
-readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?).
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22
-
-This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better
-HTTPS support:
-
- * fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https
- * fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set
-   when it was declared inside the xml prologue
- * added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client
-   side certificates for https connections
- * fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when
-   $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8
- * fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated)
- * correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the
-   sned() method call fails for some reason
- * added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory
-
-A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a
-couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no
-impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending
-/ subclassing the lib.
-
-There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in
-two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org)
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03
-
-I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1.
-
-This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them
-here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other
-similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library).
-No, really, trust me.
-
-The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of
-a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package).
-
-The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified,
-in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased.
-I hope you find it easy.
-
-Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has
-been added at last.
-
-It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and
-in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods
-for all cases, except when encoding base64 data.
-
-Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion
-of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa.
-
-PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and
-correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the
-same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of
-type resource.
-
-A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters
-or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever.
-
-A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server
-to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it
-can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net).
-
-For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the
-included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which
-is commented in javadoc style quite a bit.
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14
-
-This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem.
-All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
-As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible.
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30
-
-This is a security vulnerability fix release.
-All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible.
-
-
-XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03
-
-I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1
-It's taken two years to get to the this point, but here we are, finally.
-
-This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added.
-All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking
-the API.
-The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main
-development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when runnning PHP5).
-
-Notheworthy changes include:
-
- * do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5
- * fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years
- * proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char
- * accept float values in exponential notation
- * configurable http user-agent string
- * use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting
- * more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases
- * much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers
- * fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts
- * parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more)
- * be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add
-   javascript advertising at the end of hosted content
- * the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation
-
-This is the last release that will support PHP 3.
-The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of
-new features.
-
-The changelog is available at:
-http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup
-
-Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project
-pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/
+XML-RPC for PHP version 3.1.1 - 2018/4/7
+
+This release makes the library compatible with php 7.2 by removing the deprecation warnings.
+*NB* moving to version 4 of the library is the recommended option unless you absolutely can not upgrade, as it comes
+with many improvements.
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 3.1.0 - 2017/7/1
+
+This release makes the library compatible with php 7 by removing the deprecation warnings.
+*NB* moving to version 4 of the library is the recommended option unless you absolutely can not upgrade, as it comes
+with many improvements.
+
+The only other changes are:
+
+* addition of a 'setSSLVersion' method to the client class
+* updates to the test suite
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.1 - 2015/4/18
+3
+This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
+version 3.0.0:
+
+* the library does not decode correctly LATIN-1 requests/responses if the character set is not set in the xml prolog
+* the debugger sends incorrect requests when the payload includes LATIN-1 characters
+* the client can not call remote methods which use LATIN-1 or UTF8 characters in their names
+
+Taking baby steps to modern-world php, this release is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/gggeek/phpxmlrpc ).
+
+Improved: no need to call anymore $client->setSSLVerifyHost(2) to silence a curl warning when using https with recent curl builds
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 - 2014/6/15
+
+This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
+version 3.0.0 beta.
+
+The requirements have increased to php 5.1.0 - which is still way older than what you should be running for any serious purpose, really.
+
+It also is the first release to be installable via composer.
+
+See the Changelog file or the pdf docs for a complete list of changes.
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 beta - 2009/09/05
+
+This is the first release of the library to only support PHP 5.
+Some legacy code has been removed, and support for features such as exceptions
+and dateTime objects introduced.
+
+The "beta" tag is meant to indicate the fact that the refactoring has been more widespread
+than in precedent releases and that more changes are likely to be introduced with time -
+the library is still considered to be production quality.
+
+* improved: removed all usage of php functions deprecated in php 5.3, usage of assign-by-ref when creating new objects etc...
+* improved: add support for the <ex:nil/> tag used by the apache library, both in input and output
+* improved: add support for dateTime objects in both in php_xmlrpc_encode and as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
+* improved: add support for timestamps as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
+* improved: add option 'dates_as_objects' to php_xmlrpc_decode to return dateTime objects for xmlrpc datetimes
+* improved: add new method SetCurlOptions to xmrlpc_client to allow extra flexibility in tweaking http config, such as explicitly binding to an ip address
+* improved: add new method SetUserAgent to xmrlpc_client to to allow having different user-agent http headers
+* improved: add a new member variable in server class to allow fine-tuning of the encoding of returned values when the server is in 'phpvals' mode
+* improved: allow servers in 'xmlrpcvals' mode to also register plain php functions by defining them in the dispatch map with an added option
+* improved: catch exceptions thrown during execution of php functions exposed as methods by the server
+* fixed: bad encoding if same object is encoded twice using php_xmlrpc_encode
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.2 - 2009/03/16
+
+This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
+version 2.2.1.
+Regardless of the intimidating message about dropping PHP 4 support, it still does
+support that ancient, broken and insecure platform.
+
+
+* fixed: php warning when receiving 'false' in a bool value
+* fixed: improve robustness of the debugger when parsing weird results from non-compliant servers
+* fixed: format floating point values using the correct decimal separator even when php locale is set to one that uses comma
+* fixed: use feof() to test if socket connections are to be closed instead of the number of bytes read (rare bug when communicating with some servers)
+* fixed: be more tolerant in detection of charset in http headers
+* fixed: fix encoding of UTF8 chars outside of the BMP plane
+* fixed: fix detection of zlib.output_compression
+* improved: allow the add_to_map server method to add docs for single params too
+* improved: added the possibility to wrap for exposure as xmlrpc methods plain php class methods, object methods and even whole classes
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.1 - 2008/03/06
+
+This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced.
+It is the last release of the library that will support PHP 4.
+
+* fixed: work around bug in php 5.2.2 which broke support of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
+* fixed: is_dir parameter of setCaCertificate() method is reversed
+* fixed: a php warning in xmlrpc_client creator method
+* fixed: parsing of '1e+1' as valid float
+* fixed: allow errorlevel 3 to work when prev. error handler was a static method
+* fixed: usage of client::setcookie() for multiple cookies in non-ssl mode
+* improved: support for CP1252 charset is not part or the library but almost possible
+* improved: more info when curl is enabled and debug mode is on
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2 - 2007/02/25
+
+This release corrects a couple of bugs and adds a few minor features.
+
+* fixed: debugger errors on php installs with magic_quotes_gpc on
+* fixed: support for https connections via proxy
+* fixed: wrap_xmlrpc_method() generated code failed to properly encode php objects
+* improved: slightly faster encoding of data which is internally UTF-8
+* improved: debugger always generates a 'null' id for jsonrpc if user omits it
+* new: debugger can take advantage of a graphical value builder
+  (it has to be downloaded separately, as part of jsxmlrpc package)
+* new: support for the <NIL/> xmlrpc extension
+* new: server support for the system.getCapabilities xmlrpc extension
+* new: wrap_xmlrpc_method() accepts two new options: debug and return_on_fault
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.1 - 2006/08/28
+
+This release corrects quite a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
+There is a minor security enhancement and overall speedup too.
+
+It has been tested with PHP 4.0.5 up to 4.4.4 and 5.1.5.
+Please note that 404pl1 is NOT supported, and has not been since 2.0.
+
+*** PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW ***
+
+CHANGES THAT MIGHT AFFECT DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS:
+
+The wrap_php_function and wrap_xmlrpc_method functions have been moved out of
+the base library file xmlrpc.inc into a file of their own: xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
+You will have to include() / require() it in your scripts if you have been using
+those functions.
+
+For increased security, the automatic rebuilding of php object instances out of
+received xmlrpc structs in wrap_xmlrpc_method() has been disabled (but it can be
+optionally reenabled).
+
+The constructor of xmlrpcval() values has seen major changes, and it will not
+throw a php warning anymore when invoked using an unknown xmlrpc type: the
+error will only be written to php error log. Also new xmlrpcval('true', 'boolean')
+is not supported anymore.
+
+MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS:
+
+The new function php_xmlrpc_decode_xml() will take the xml representation of
+either an xmlrpc request, response or single value and return the corresponding
+php-xmlrpc object instance.
+
+Both wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method() functions accept many more
+options to fine tune their behaviour, including one to return the php code to
+be saved and later used as standalone php script.
+
+A new function wrap_xmlrpc_server() has been added, to wrap all (or some) of the
+methods exposed by a remote xmlrpc server into a php class.
+
+Lib internals have been modified to provide better support for grafting extra
+functionality on top of it. Stay tuned for future releases of the EXTRAS package.
+
+Last but not least a new file has been added: verify_compat.php, to help users
+diagnose the level of compliance of the current php install with the library.
+
+CHANGELOG IN DETAIL:
+
+* fixed bug 1311927: client not playing nice with some proxy/firewall on ports != 80
+* fixed bug 1334340: all ereg_ functions have been replaced with corresponding preg_
+* fixed bug: wrong handling of 'deflate' http encoding, both server and client side
+* fixed bug: sending compressed responses when php output compression is enabled was not working
+* fixed bug: addarray() and addstruct() where not returning 1 when adding data to already initialized values
+* fixed bug: non-ascii chars used in struct element names where not being encoded correctly
+* restored compatibility with php 4.0.5 (for those poor souls still stuck on it)
+* server->service() now returns either the payload or xmlrpcresp instance
+* server->add_to_map() now accepts methods with no param definitions
+* added new function: php_xmlrpc_decode_xml()
+* added new function: wrap_xmlrpc_server()
+* major improvements and security enhancements to wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method()
+* documentation for single parameters of exposed methods can be added to the dispatch map
+  (and turned into html docs in conjunction with a future release of the extras package)
+* full response payload is saved into xmlrpcresp object for further debugging
+* stricter parsing of incoming xmlrpc messages: two more invalid cases are now detected
+  (double data element inside array and struct/array after scalar inside value element)
+* debugger can now generate code that wraps a remote method into php function (works for jsonrpc, too)
+* debugger has better support for being activated via a single GET call (for integration into other tools?)
+* more logging of errors in a lot of situations
+* javadoc documentation of lib files almost complete
+* the usual amount of new testcases in the testsuite
+* many performance tweaks and code cleanups
+* added foundation for emulating the API of the xmlrpc extension (extras package needed)
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/24
+
+I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final.
+
+With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small
+bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and
+ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff);
+all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added,
+including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc
+client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations;
+both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes.
+The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities.
+
+In greater detail:
+
+* fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work
+* fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that
+  has return_type=phpvals
+* fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error
+* fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF8 charset
+* fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii
+  chars where found when decoding
+* new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1
+  connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too
+* new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead
+  of an xmlrpcresp
+* new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user
+  coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log
+* new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against
+* new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values
+  (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec)
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22
+
+This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
+It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2.
+
+* fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression
+* fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding
+  set to UTF-8
+* fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce
+  invalid xml-rpc
+* new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map
+* new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects
+* new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing
+  values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'.
+  Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
+* new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions
+  that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory
+  (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details)
+* new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to
+  screen before being sent
+* new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for
+  easier testing / subclassing
+* changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64
+  encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem
+* other minor fixes
+
+The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new
+parameters added to some functions.
+Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot.
+The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more
+logical organization.
+
+The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be
+packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human
+readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?).
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22
+
+This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better
+HTTPS support:
+
+ * fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https
+ * fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set
+   when it was declared inside the xml prologue
+ * added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client
+   side certificates for https connections
+ * fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when
+   $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8
+ * fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated)
+ * correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the
+   send() method call fails for some reason
+ * added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory
+
+A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a
+couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no
+impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending
+/ subclassing the lib.
+
+There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in
+two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org)
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03
+
+I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1.
+
+This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them
+here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other
+similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library).
+No, really, trust me.
+
+The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of
+a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package).
+
+The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified,
+in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased.
+I hope you find it easy.
+
+Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has
+been added at last.
+
+It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and
+in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods
+for all cases, except when encoding base64 data.
+
+Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion
+of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa.
+
+PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and
+correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the
+same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of
+type resource.
+
+A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters
+or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever.
+
+A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server
+to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it
+can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net).
+
+For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the
+included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which
+is commented in javadoc style quite a bit.
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14
+
+This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem.
+All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
+As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible.
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30
+
+This is a security vulnerability fix release.
+All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible.
+
+
+XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03
+
+I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1
+It's taken two years to get to the this point, but here we are, finally.
+
+This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added.
+All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking
+the API.
+The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main
+development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when runnning PHP5).
+
+Notheworthy changes include:
+
+ * do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5
+ * fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years
+ * proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char
+ * accept float values in exponential notation
+ * configurable http user-agent string
+ * use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting
+ * more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases
+ * much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers
+ * fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts
+ * parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more)
+ * be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add
+   javascript advertising at the end of hosted content
+ * the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation
+
+This is the last release that will support PHP 3.
+The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of
+new features.
+
+The changelog is available at:
+http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup
+
+Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project
+pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/