1 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.6.0 - 2021/12/9
3 * fixed: compatibility with php 8.1
5 * improved: when encoding utf8 text into us-ascii xml, use character entity references for characters number 0-31
6 (ascii non printable characters), as we were already doing when encoding iso-8859-1 text into us-ascii xml
8 * new: method `Server::getDispatchMap()`. Useful for non-child classes which want to f.e. introspect the server
10 * new: increase flexibility in class composition by adopting a Dependency Injection (...ish) pattern:
11 it is now possible to swap out the Logger, XMLParser and Charset classes with similar ones of your own making.
13 // 1. create an instance of a custom character encoder
14 // $myCharsetEncoder = ...
15 // 2. then use it while serializing a Request:
16 Request::setCharsetEncoder($myCharsetEncoder);
17 $request->serialize($funkyCharset);
19 * new: method `XMLParser::parse()` acquired a 4th argument
21 * new: method `Wrapper::wrapPhpClass` allows to customize the names of the phpxmlrpc methods by stripping the original
22 class name and accompanying namespace and replace it with a user-defined prefix, via option `replace_class_name`
24 * improved: Continuous Integration is now running on Github Actions instead of Travis
27 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.2 - 2021/1/11
29 * improved: better phpdocs in the the php code generated by the Wrapper class
31 * improved: debugger favicon and page title when used from the phpjsonrpc library
33 * fixed: allow `Encoder::decode` to properly support different target character sets for polyfill-xmlrpc decode functions
35 * improved: allow usage of 'epivals' for the 'parameters_type' member of methods definitions in the Server dispatch map
38 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.1 - 2021/1/3
40 * improved: made it easier to subclass the Helper\Charset class by allowing `instance` to use late static binding
42 * fixed: reinstated access to xmlrpc_server->dmap (for users of the v3 API)
44 * fixed: method `xmlrpc_encode_entitites` (for users of the v3 API)
46 * improved: split the code of the demo server in multiple files, describing better the purpose of each
49 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.0 - 2020/12/31
51 * new: it is now possible to control the precision used when serializing DOUBLE values via usage of
52 `PhpXmlRpc::$xmlpc_double_precision`
54 * fixed: `Encoder::encode` would not correctly encode DateTime and DateTimeImmutable objects
56 * improvements to to the Helper\Date class in rejecting invalid date strings
58 * improvements to the Wrapper class in identifying required arguments types from source code phpdoc: support 'array[]',
59 'DateTime' and 'DateTimeImmutable'
61 * improvements to the support of the XMLRPC extension emulation (now provided by the phpxmlrpc/polyfill-xmlrpc package)
63 * minor improvements to the Charset helper: it now loads character set conversion tables on demand, leading to
64 slightly lower memory usage and faster execution time when using UTF8 everywhere.
65 NB: take care if you have subclassed it!
67 * new method: `Server::isSyscall` - mostly of use to Server subclasses and friend classes such as introspectors
69 * internal method `XMLParser::xmlrpc_ee` now accepts 3 states for its 3rd parameter instead of a bool
71 * improvements in the inline phpdoc: tagged many methods and class member as reserved for internal usage only
73 * minor improvements in the debugger to allow easier integration of phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc and friends
75 * reorganized the test suite to be more manageable
77 * removed obsolete files from the 'extras' folder; updated and moved to the 'demo' folders the perl and python
78 client scripts; moved benchmark.php and verify_compat.php to the 'extras' folder
81 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.3 - 2020/12/17
83 * fixed: compatibility with PHP 8.0 (fixes to the debugger, to the server's 'system.methodHelp' method and to the
84 PhpXmlRpc\Wrapper class).
85 Note that method `Value::structeach` has not been removed from the API, but it is _not_ supported when running
86 on PHP 8.0 or later - in that case it will always throw an Error.
88 * improvements to the test stack: it is now possible to run it via Docker besides Travis; avoid using _any_ external
89 server when running tests; run Travis tests also on php 8.0; bump PHPUnit versions in use
92 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.2 - 2020/3/4
94 * fixed: `client->setCookie()` bug: cookie values that contain spaces are now properly encoded in a way that gets them
95 decoded back to spaces on the receiving end if the server running on php 7.4 (or does RFC-compliant cookie decoding).
96 Beforehand we were encoding spaces to '+' characters.
99 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.1 - 2019/7/29
101 * fixed: allow handling huge xml messages (>=10MB) (issue #71)
103 * improved: make it easier to overtake the library's usage of `error_log`
106 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.2 - 2019/5/27
108 * fixed: remove one php 7.2 warning when using the v3 api
110 * improved: the Travis tests are now run with all php versions from 5.6 to 7.3. We dropped tests with php 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5
113 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.1 - 2018/1/20
115 * fixed: error when using https in non-curl mode
117 * fixed: compatibility of tests with php 7.2
119 * fixed: html injection in sample code
121 * fixed: warnings emitted by the *legacy* server in xmlrpcs.inc
123 * fixed: encoding of php variables of type 'resource' when using xmlrpc_encode in php-compatibility mode
125 * fixed: bad html tag in sample code
127 * improved: text of error messages
130 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.0 - 2017/11/6
132 * fixed: compatibility with Basic/Digest/NTLM auth when using client in cURL mode (issue #58)
134 * improved: added unit tests for Basic and Digest http auth. Also improved tests suite
136 * new: allow to force usage of curl for http 1.0 calls, as well as plain socket for https calls, via the method
137 `Client::setUseCurl()`
140 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.2 - 2017/10/15
142 * fixed: compatibility with Lighttpd target servers when using client in cURL mode and request body size > 1024 bytes (issue #56)
145 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.1 - 2017/9/3
147 * fixed: compatibility with php 7.2 (issue #55)
150 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.0 - 2017/6/30
152 * improved: allow also DateTimeImmutable objects to be detected as a date when encoding
155 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.1 - 2016/10/1
157 * fixed: error in server class: undefined function php_xmlrpc_encode (only triggered when not using the compatibility
158 shim with old versions)
161 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.0 - 2016/6/26
163 * improved: Added support for receiving <I8> and <EX:I8> integers, sending <I8>
165 If php is compiled in 32 bit mode, and an i8 int is received from a 3rd party, and error will be emitted.
166 Integers sent from the library to 3rd parties can be encoded using the i8 tag, but default to using 'int' by default;
167 the developer will have to create values as i8 explicitly if needed.
168 The library does *not* check if an outgoing integer is too big to fit in 4 bytes and convert it to an i8 automatically.
171 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.1 - 2016/3/27
173 * improved: all of the API documentation has been moved out of the manual and into the source code phpdoc comments
175 * fixed: when the internal character set is set to UTF-8 and the client sends requests (or the server responses), too
176 many characters were encoded as numeric entities, whereas some, like åäö, needed not not be
178 * fixed: the 'valtyp' property of Response was not present in all cases; the ValType property had been added by error
182 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.0 - 2016/1/20
184 This release does away with the past and starts a transition to modern-world php.
186 Code has been heavily refactored, taking care to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible,
187 but some breackage is to be expected.
189 The minimum required php version has been increased to 5.3, even though we strongly urge you to use
190 more recent versions.
192 PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BELOW to insure a smooth upgrade.
194 * new: introduction of namespaces and full OOP.
196 All php classes have been renamed and moved to separate files.
197 Class autoloading can now be done in accord with the PSR-4 standard.
198 All global variables and global functions have been removed.
199 Iterating over xmlrpc value objects is now easier thank to support for ArrayAccess and Traversable interfaces.
201 Backward compatibility is maintained via lib/xmlrpc.inc, lib/xmlrpcs.inc and lib/xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
202 For more details, head on to doc/api_changes_v4.md
204 * changed: the default character encoding delivered from the library to your code is now utf8.
205 It can be changed at any time setting a value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_internalencoding
207 * improved: the library now accepts requests/responses sent using other character sets than UTF-8/ISO-8859-1/ASCII.
208 This only works when the mbstring php extension is enabled.
210 * improved: no need to call anymore $client->setSSLVerifyHost(2) to silence a curl warning when using https
211 with recent curl builds
213 * improved: the xmlrpcval class now supports the interfaces Countable and IteratorAggregate
215 * improved: a specific option allows users to decide the version of SSL to use for https calls.
216 This is useful f.e. for the testing suite, when the server target of calls has no proper ssl certificate,
217 and the cURL extension has been compiled with GnuTLS (such as on Travis VMs)
219 * improved: the function wrap_php_function() now can be used to wrap closures (it is now a method btw)
221 * improved: all wrap_something() functions now return a closure by default instead of a function name
223 * improved: debug messages are not html-escaped any more when executing from the command line
225 * improved: the library is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/ ).
226 Tests are executed using all php versions from 5.3 to 7.2; code-coverage information
227 is generated using php 5.6 and uploaded to both Code Coverage and Scrutinizer online services
229 * improved: phpunit is now installed via composer, not bundled anymore
231 * improved: when phpunit is used to generate code-coverage data, the code executed server-side is accounted for
233 * improved: the test suite has basic checks for the debugger and demo files
235 * improved: more tests in the test suite
237 * fixed: the server would not reset the user-set debug messages between subsequent service() calls
239 * fixed: the server would not reset previous php error handlers when an exception was thrown by user code and
240 exception_handling set to 2
242 * fixed: the server would fail to decode a request with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml
245 * fixed: the client would fail to decode a response with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml
248 * fixed: the function decode_xml() would not decode an xml with character set declaration in the xml prolog
250 * fixed: the client can now successfully call methods using ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 characters in their name
252 * fixed: the debugger would fail sending a request with ISO-8859-1 payload (it missed the character set declaration).
253 It would have a hard time coping with ISO-8859-1 in other fields, such as e.g. the remote method name
255 * fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for signatures containing NULL
256 or undefined parameters
258 * fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for methods with multiple
261 * improved: the debugger is displayed using UTF-8, making it more useful to debug any kind of service
263 * improved: echo all debug messages even when there are characters in them which php deems to be in a wrong encoding;
264 previously those messages would just disappear (this is visible e.g. in the debugger)
266 * changed: debug info handling
267 - at debug level 1, the rebuilt php objects are not dumped to screen (server-side already did that)
268 - at debug level 1, curl communication info are not dumped to screen
269 - at debug level 1, the tests echo payloads of failures; at debug level 2 all payloads
271 * improved: makefiles have been replaced with a php_based pakefile
273 * improved: the source for the manual is stored in asciidoc format, which can be displayed natively by GitHub
274 with nice html formatting. Also the HTML version generated by hand and bundled in tarballs is much nicer
275 to look at than previous versions
277 * improved: all php code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard
280 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 - 2014/6/15
282 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
285 The requirements have increased to php 5.1.0 - which is still way older than what you should be running for any serious
288 It also is the first release to be installable via composer.
290 See the Changelog file or the pdf docs for a complete list of changes.
293 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 beta - 2009/09/05
295 This is the first release of the library to only support PHP 5.
296 Some legacy code has been removed, and support for features such as exceptions
297 and dateTime objects introduced.
299 The "beta" tag is meant to indicate the fact that the refactoring has been more widespread
300 than in precedent releases and that more changes are likely to be introduced with time -
301 the library is still considered to be production quality.
303 * improved: removed all usage of php functions deprecated in php 5.3, usage of assign-by-ref when creating new objects
305 * improved: add support for the <ex:nil/> tag used by the apache library, both in input and output
306 * improved: add support for dateTime objects in both in php_xmlrpc_encode and as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
307 * improved: add support for timestamps as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
308 * improved: add option 'dates_as_objects' to php_xmlrpc_decode to return dateTime objects for xmlrpc datetimes
309 * improved: add new method SetCurlOptions to xmrlpc_client to allow extra flexibility in tweaking http config, such as
310 explicitly binding to an ip address
311 * improved: add new method SetUserAgent to xmrlpc_client to to allow having different user-agent http headers
312 * improved: add a new member variable in server class to allow fine-tuning of the encoding of returned values when the
313 server is in 'phpvals' mode
314 * improved: allow servers in 'xmlrpcvals' mode to also register plain php functions by defining them in the dispatch map
316 * improved: catch exceptions thrown during execution of php functions exposed as methods by the server
317 * fixed: bad encoding if same object is encoded twice using php_xmlrpc_encode
320 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.2 - 2009/03/16
322 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced since
324 Regardless of the intimidating message about dropping PHP 4 support, it still does
325 support that ancient, broken and insecure platform.
328 * fixed: php warning when receiving 'false' in a bool value
329 * fixed: improve robustness of the debugger when parsing weird results from non-compliant servers
330 * fixed: format floating point values using the correct decimal separator even when php locale is set to one that uses
332 * fixed: use feof() to test if socket connections are to be closed instead of the number of bytes read (rare bug when
333 communicating with some servers)
334 * fixed: be more tolerant in detection of charset in http headers
335 * fixed: fix encoding of UTF8 chars outside of the BMP plane
336 * fixed: fix detection of zlib.output_compression
337 * improved: allow the add_to_map server method to add docs for single params too
338 * improved: added the possibility to wrap for exposure as xmlrpc methods plain php class methods, object methods and
342 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.1 - 2008/03/06
344 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced.
345 It is the last release of the library that will support PHP 4.
347 * fixed: work around bug in php 5.2.2 which broke support of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
348 * fixed: is_dir parameter of setCaCertificate() method is reversed
349 * fixed: a php warning in xmlrpc_client creator method
350 * fixed: parsing of '1e+1' as valid float
351 * fixed: allow errorlevel 3 to work when prev. error handler was a static method
352 * fixed: usage of client::setcookie() for multiple cookies in non-ssl mode
353 * improved: support for CP1252 charset is not part or the library but almost possible
354 * improved: more info when curl is enabled and debug mode is on
357 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2 - 2007/02/25
359 This release corrects a couple of bugs and adds a few minor features.
361 * fixed: debugger errors on php installs with magic_quotes_gpc on
362 * fixed: support for https connections via proxy
363 * fixed: wrap_xmlrpc_method() generated code failed to properly encode php objects
364 * improved: slightly faster encoding of data which is internally UTF-8
365 * improved: debugger always generates a 'null' id for jsonrpc if user omits it
366 * new: debugger can take advantage of a graphical value builder
367 (it has to be downloaded separately, as part of jsxmlrpc package)
368 * new: support for the <NIL/> xmlrpc extension
369 * new: server support for the system.getCapabilities xmlrpc extension
370 * new: wrap_xmlrpc_method() accepts two new options: debug and return_on_fault
373 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.1 - 2006/08/28
375 This release corrects quite a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
376 There is a minor security enhancement and overall speedup too.
378 It has been tested with PHP 4.0.5 up to 4.4.4 and 5.1.5.
379 Please note that 404pl1 is NOT supported, and has not been since 2.0.
381 *** PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW ***
383 CHANGES THAT MIGHT AFFECT DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS:
385 The wrap_php_function and wrap_xmlrpc_method functions have been moved out of
386 the base library file xmlrpc.inc into a file of their own: xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
387 You will have to include() / require() it in your scripts if you have been using
390 For increased security, the automatic rebuilding of php object instances out of
391 received xmlrpc structs in wrap_xmlrpc_method() has been disabled (but it can be
392 optionally reenabled).
394 The constructor of xmlrpcval() values has seen major changes, and it will not
395 throw a php warning anymore when invoked using an unknown xmlrpc type: the
396 error will only be written to php error log. Also new xmlrpcval('true', 'boolean')
397 is not supported anymore.
401 The new function php_xmlrpc_decode_xml() will take the xml representation of
402 either an xmlrpc request, response or single value and return the corresponding
403 php-xmlrpc object instance.
405 Both wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method() functions accept many more
406 options to fine tune their behaviour, including one to return the php code to
407 be saved and later used as standalone php script.
409 A new function wrap_xmlrpc_server() has been added, to wrap all (or some) of the
410 methods exposed by a remote xmlrpc server into a php class.
412 Lib internals have been modified to provide better support for grafting extra
413 functionality on top of it. Stay tuned for future releases of the EXTRAS package.
415 Last but not least a new file has been added: verify_compat.php, to help users
416 diagnose the level of compliance of the current php install with the library.
420 * fixed bug 1311927: client not playing nice with some proxy/firewall on ports != 80
421 * fixed bug 1334340: all ereg_ functions have been replaced with corresponding preg_
422 * fixed bug: wrong handling of 'deflate' http encoding, both server and client side
423 * fixed bug: sending compressed responses when php output compression is enabled was not working
424 * fixed bug: addarray() and addstruct() where not returning 1 when adding data to already initialized values
425 * fixed bug: non-ascii chars used in struct element names where not being encoded correctly
426 * restored compatibility with php 4.0.5 (for those poor souls still stuck on it)
427 * server->service() now returns either the payload or xmlrpcresp instance
428 * server->add_to_map() now accepts methods with no param definitions
429 * added new function: php_xmlrpc_decode_xml()
430 * added new function: wrap_xmlrpc_server()
431 * major improvements and security enhancements to wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method()
432 * documentation for single parameters of exposed methods can be added to the dispatch map
433 (and turned into html docs in conjunction with a future release of the extras package)
434 * full response payload is saved into xmlrpcresp object for further debugging
435 * stricter parsing of incoming xmlrpc messages: two more invalid cases are now detected
436 (double data element inside array and struct/array after scalar inside value element)
437 * debugger can now generate code that wraps a remote method into php function (works for jsonrpc, too)
438 * debugger has better support for being activated via a single GET call (for integration into other tools?)
439 * more logging of errors in a lot of situations
440 * javadoc documentation of lib files almost complete
441 * the usual amount of new testcases in the testsuite
442 * many performance tweaks and code cleanups
443 * added foundation for emulating the API of the xmlrpc extension (extras package needed)
446 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/24
448 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final.
450 With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small
451 bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and
452 ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff);
453 all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added,
454 including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc
455 client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations;
456 both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes.
457 The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities.
461 * fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work
462 * fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that
463 has return_type=phpvals
464 * fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error
465 * fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF8 charset
466 * fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii
467 chars where found when decoding
468 * new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1
469 connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too
470 * new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead
472 * new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user
473 coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log
474 * new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against
475 * new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values
476 (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec)
479 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22
481 This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
482 It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2.
484 * fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression
485 * fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding
487 * fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce
489 * new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map
490 * new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects
491 * new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing
492 values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'.
493 Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
494 * new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions
495 that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory
496 (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details)
497 * new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to
498 screen before being sent
499 * new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for
500 easier testing / subclassing
501 * changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64
502 encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem
505 The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new
506 parameters added to some functions.
507 Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot.
508 The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more
509 logical organization.
511 The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be
512 packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human
513 readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?).
516 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22
518 This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better
521 * fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https
522 * fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set
523 when it was declared inside the xml prologue
524 * added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client
525 side certificates for https connections
526 * fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when
527 $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8
528 * fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated)
529 * correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the
530 send() method call fails for some reason
531 * added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory
533 A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a
534 couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no
535 impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending
536 / subclassing the lib.
538 There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in
539 two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org)
542 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03
544 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1.
546 This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them
547 here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other
548 similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library).
549 No, really, trust me.
551 The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of
552 a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package).
554 The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified,
555 in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased.
556 I hope you find it easy.
558 Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has
561 It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and
562 in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods
563 for all cases, except when encoding base64 data.
565 Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion
566 of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa.
568 PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and
569 correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the
570 same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of
573 A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters
574 or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever.
576 A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server
577 to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it
578 can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net).
580 For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the
581 included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which
582 is commented in javadoc style quite a bit.
585 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14
587 This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem.
588 All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
589 As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible.
592 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30
594 This is a security vulnerability fix release.
595 All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible.
598 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03
600 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1
601 It's taken two years to get to the this point, but here we are, finally.
603 This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added.
604 All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking
606 The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main
607 development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when running PHP5).
609 Noteworthy changes include:
611 * do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5
612 * fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years
613 * proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char
614 * accept float values in exponential notation
615 * configurable http user-agent string
616 * use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting
617 * more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases
618 * much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers
619 * fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts
620 * parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more)
621 * be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add
622 javascript advertising at the end of hosted content
623 * the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation
625 This is the last release that will support PHP 3.
626 The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of
629 The changelog is available at:
630 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup
632 Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project
633 pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/
636 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0
638 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 (final). It's taken
639 two years to get to the 1.0 point, but here we are, finally. The major change
640 is re-licensing with the BSD open source license, a move from the custom
641 license previously used.
643 After this release I expect to move the project to SourceForge and find
644 another primary maintainer for the code. More details will follow to the
647 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
649 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
650 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
652 Bugfixes in this release include:
654 * Small fixes and tidying up.
656 New features include:
658 * experimental support for SSL via the curl extensions to PHP. Needs
659 PHP 4.0.2 or greater, but not PHP 4.0.6 which has broken SSL support.
661 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
663 Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are
664 available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to
665 <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
668 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9
670 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9. This is
671 is largely a bugfix release.
673 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
675 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
676 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
678 Bugfixes in this release include:
680 * Fixed string handling bug where characters between a </string>
681 and </value> tag were not ignored.
683 * Added in support for PHP's native boolean type.
685 New features include:
687 * new getval() method (experimental only) which has support for
688 recreating nested arrays.
689 * fledgling unit test suite
690 * server.php has support for basic interop test suite
692 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
694 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
695 mailing list, of which more details are available at
696 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
699 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8
701 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8.
703 This release fixes several bugs and adds a couple of new helper
704 functions. The most critical change in this release is that you can no
705 longer print debug info in comments inside a server method -- you must
706 now use the new xmlrpc_debugmsg() function.
708 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
710 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
711 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
713 Bugfixes in this release include:
715 * fixed whitespace handling in values
716 * correct sending of Content-length from the server
718 New features include:
720 * xmlrpc_debugmsg() method allows sending of debug info in comments in
721 the return payload from a server
723 * xmlrpc_encode() and xmlrpc_decode() translate between xmlrpcval
724 objects and PHP language arrays. They aren't suitable for all
725 datatypes, but can speed up coding in simple scenarios. Thanks to Dan
728 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
730 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
731 mailing list, of which more details are available at
732 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
735 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7
737 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7. This is
738 fixes some critical bugs that crept in. If it shows itself to be stable
739 then it'll become the 1.0 release.
741 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
743 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
744 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
746 Bugfixes in this release include:
748 * Passing of booleans should now work as expected
749 * Dollar signs and backslashes in strings should pass OK
750 * addScalar() now works properly to append to array vals
752 New features include:
754 * Added support for HTTP Basic authorization through the
755 xmlrpc_client::setCredentials method.
757 * Added test script and method for verifying correct passing of
760 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
762 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
763 mailing list, of which more details are available at
764 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
767 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6
769 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6. This is the
770 final beta before the 1.0 release.
772 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
774 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
775 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
777 New features in this release include:
779 * Perl and Python test programs for the demo server
780 * Proper fault generation on a non-"200 OK" response from a remote host
781 * Bugfixed base64 decoding
782 * ISO8601 helper routines for translation to and from UNIX timestamps
783 * reorganization of code to allow eventual integration of alternative
786 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
788 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
789 mailing list, of which more details are available at
790 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.