1 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.6.0 - unreleased
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 * improved: Continuous Integration is now running on Github Actions instead of Travis
24 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.2 - 2021/1/11
26 * improved: better phpdocs in the the php code generated by the Wrapper class
28 * improved: debugger favicon and page title when used from the phpjsonrpc library
30 * fixed: allow `Encoder::decode` to properly support different target character sets for polyfill-xmlrpc decode functions
32 * improved: allow usage of 'epivals' for the 'parameters_type' member of methods definitions in the Server dispatch map
35 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.1 - 2021/1/3
37 * improved: made it easier to subclass the Helper\Charset class by allowing `instance` to use late static binding
39 * fixed: reinstated access to xmlrpc_server->dmap (for users of the v3 API)
41 * fixed: method `xmlrpc_encode_entitites` (for users of the v3 API)
43 * improved: split the code of the demo server in multiple files, describing better the purpose of each
46 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.0 - 2020/12/31
48 * new: it is now possible to control the precision used when serializing DOUBLE values via usage of
49 `PhpXmlRpc::$xmlpc_double_precision`
51 * fixed: `Encoder::encode` would not correctly encode DateTime and DateTimeImmutable objects
53 * improvements to to the Helper\Date class in rejecting invalid date strings
55 * improvements to the Wrapper class in identifying required arguments types from source code phpdoc: support 'array[]',
56 'DateTime' and 'DateTimeImmutable'
58 * improvements to the support of the XMLRPC extension emulation (now provided by the phpxmlrpc/polyfill-xmlrpc package)
60 * minor improvements to the Charset helper: it now loads character set conversion tables on demand, leading to
61 slightly lower memory usage and faster execution time when using UTF8 everywhere.
62 NB: take care if you have subclassed it!
64 * new method: `Server::isSyscall` - mostly of use to Server subclasses and friend classes such as introspectors
66 * internal method `XMLParser::xmlrpc_ee` now accepts 3 states for its 3rd parameter instead of a bool
68 * improvements in the inline phpdoc: tagged many methods and class member as reserved for internal usage only
70 * minor improvements in the debugger to allow easier integration of phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc and friends
72 * reorganized the test suite to be more manageable
74 * removed obsolete files from the 'extras' folder; updated and moved to the 'demo' folders the perl and python
75 client scripts; moved benchmark.php and verify_compat.php to the 'extras' folder
78 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.3 - 2020/12/17
80 * fixed: compatibility with PHP 8.0 (fixes to the debugger, to the server's 'system.methodHelp' method and to the
81 PhpXmlRpc\Wrapper class).
82 Note that method `Value::structeach` has not been removed from the API, but it is _not_ supported when running
83 on PHP 8.0 or later - in that case it will always throw an Error.
85 * improvements to the test stack: it is now possible to run it via Docker besides Travis; avoid using _any_ external
86 server when running tests; run Travis tests also on php 8.0; bump PHPUnit versions in use
89 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.2 - 2020/3/4
91 * fixed: `client->setCookie()` bug: cookie values that contain spaces are now properly encoded in a way that gets them
92 decoded back to spaces on the receiving end if the server running on php 7.4 (or does RFC-compliant cookie decoding).
93 Beforehand we were encoding spaces to '+' characters.
96 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.1 - 2019/7/29
98 * fixed: allow handling huge xml messages (>=10MB) (issue #71)
100 * improved: make it easier to overtake the library's usage of `error_log`
103 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.2 - 2019/5/27
105 * fixed: remove one php 7.2 warning when using the v3 api
107 * 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
110 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.1 - 2018/1/20
112 * fixed: error when using https in non-curl mode
114 * fixed: compatibility of tests with php 7.2
116 * fixed: html injection in sample code
118 * fixed: warnings emitted by the *legacy* server in xmlrpcs.inc
120 * fixed: encoding of php variables of type 'resource' when using xmlrpc_encode in php-compatibility mode
122 * fixed: bad html tag in sample code
124 * improved: text of error messages
127 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.0 - 2017/11/6
129 * fixed: compatibility with Basic/Digest/NTLM auth when using client in cURL mode (issue #58)
131 * improved: added unit tests for Basic and Digest http auth. Also improved tests suite
133 * new: allow to force usage of curl for http 1.0 calls, as well as plain socket for https calls, via the method
134 `Client::setUseCurl()`
137 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.2 - 2017/10/15
139 * fixed: compatibility with Lighttpd target servers when using client in cURL mode and request body size > 1024 bytes (issue #56)
142 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.1 - 2017/9/3
144 * fixed: compatibility with php 7.2 (issue #55)
147 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.0 - 2017/6/30
149 * improved: allow also DateTimeImmutable objects to be detected as a date when encoding
152 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.1 - 2016/10/1
154 * fixed: error in server class: undefined function php_xmlrpc_encode (only triggered when not using the compatibility
155 shim with old versions)
158 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.0 - 2016/6/26
160 * improved: Added support for receiving <I8> and <EX:I8> integers, sending <I8>
162 If php is compiled in 32 bit mode, and an i8 int is received from a 3rd party, and error will be emitted.
163 Integers sent from the library to 3rd parties can be encoded using the i8 tag, but default to using 'int' by default;
164 the developer will have to create values as i8 explicitly if needed.
165 The library does *not* check if an outgoing integer is too big to fit in 4 bytes and convert it to an i8 automatically.
168 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.1 - 2016/3/27
170 * improved: all of the API documentation has been moved out of the manual and into the source code phpdoc comments
172 * fixed: when the internal character set is set to UTF-8 and the client sends requests (or the server responses), too
173 many characters were encoded as numeric entities, whereas some, like åäö, needed not not be
175 * fixed: the 'valtyp' property of Response was not present in all cases; the ValType property had been added by error
179 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.0 - 2016/1/20
181 This release does away with the past and starts a transition to modern-world php.
183 Code has been heavily refactored, taking care to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible,
184 but some breackage is to be expected.
186 The minimum required php version has been increased to 5.3, even though we strongly urge you to use
187 more recent versions.
189 PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BELOW to insure a smooth upgrade.
191 * new: introduction of namespaces and full OOP.
193 All php classes have been renamed and moved to separate files.
194 Class autoloading can now be done in accord with the PSR-4 standard.
195 All global variables and global functions have been removed.
196 Iterating over xmlrpc value objects is now easier thank to support for ArrayAccess and Traversable interfaces.
198 Backward compatibility is maintained via lib/xmlrpc.inc, lib/xmlrpcs.inc and lib/xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
199 For more details, head on to doc/api_changes_v4.md
201 * changed: the default character encoding delivered from the library to your code is now utf8.
202 It can be changed at any time setting a value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_internalencoding
204 * improved: the library now accepts requests/responses sent using other character sets than UTF-8/ISO-8859-1/ASCII.
205 This only works when the mbstring php extension is enabled.
207 * improved: no need to call anymore $client->setSSLVerifyHost(2) to silence a curl warning when using https
208 with recent curl builds
210 * improved: the xmlrpcval class now supports the interfaces Countable and IteratorAggregate
212 * improved: a specific option allows users to decide the version of SSL to use for https calls.
213 This is useful f.e. for the testing suite, when the server target of calls has no proper ssl certificate,
214 and the cURL extension has been compiled with GnuTLS (such as on Travis VMs)
216 * improved: the function wrap_php_function() now can be used to wrap closures (it is now a method btw)
218 * improved: all wrap_something() functions now return a closure by default instead of a function name
220 * improved: debug messages are not html-escaped any more when executing from the command line
222 * improved: the library is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/ ).
223 Tests are executed using all php versions from 5.3 to 7.2; code-coverage information
224 is generated using php 5.6 and uploaded to both Code Coverage and Scrutinizer online services
226 * improved: phpunit is now installed via composer, not bundled anymore
228 * improved: when phpunit is used to generate code-coverage data, the code executed server-side is accounted for
230 * improved: the test suite has basic checks for the debugger and demo files
232 * improved: more tests in the test suite
234 * fixed: the server would not reset the user-set debug messages between subsequent service() calls
236 * fixed: the server would not reset previous php error handlers when an exception was thrown by user code and
237 exception_handling set to 2
239 * fixed: the server would fail to decode a request with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml
242 * fixed: the client would fail to decode a response with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml
245 * fixed: the function decode_xml() would not decode an xml with character set declaration in the xml prolog
247 * fixed: the client can now successfully call methods using ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 characters in their name
249 * fixed: the debugger would fail sending a request with ISO-8859-1 payload (it missed the character set declaration).
250 It would have a hard time coping with ISO-8859-1 in other fields, such as e.g. the remote method name
252 * fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for signatures containing NULL
253 or undefined parameters
255 * fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for methods with multiple
258 * improved: the debugger is displayed using UTF-8, making it more useful to debug any kind of service
260 * improved: echo all debug messages even when there are characters in them which php deems to be in a wrong encoding;
261 previously those messages would just disappear (this is visible e.g. in the debugger)
263 * changed: debug info handling
264 - at debug level 1, the rebuilt php objects are not dumped to screen (server-side already did that)
265 - at debug level 1, curl communication info are not dumped to screen
266 - at debug level 1, the tests echo payloads of failures; at debug level 2 all payloads
268 * improved: makefiles have been replaced with a php_based pakefile
270 * improved: the source for the manual is stored in asciidoc format, which can be displayed natively by GitHub
271 with nice html formatting. Also the HTML version generated by hand and bundled in tarballs is much nicer
272 to look at than previous versions
274 * improved: all php code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard
277 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 - 2014/6/15
279 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
282 The requirements have increased to php 5.1.0 - which is still way older than what you should be running for any serious
285 It also is the first release to be installable via composer.
287 See the Changelog file or the pdf docs for a complete list of changes.
290 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 beta - 2009/09/05
292 This is the first release of the library to only support PHP 5.
293 Some legacy code has been removed, and support for features such as exceptions
294 and dateTime objects introduced.
296 The "beta" tag is meant to indicate the fact that the refactoring has been more widespread
297 than in precedent releases and that more changes are likely to be introduced with time -
298 the library is still considered to be production quality.
300 * improved: removed all usage of php functions deprecated in php 5.3, usage of assign-by-ref when creating new objects
302 * improved: add support for the <ex:nil/> tag used by the apache library, both in input and output
303 * improved: add support for dateTime objects in both in php_xmlrpc_encode and as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
304 * improved: add support for timestamps as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
305 * improved: add option 'dates_as_objects' to php_xmlrpc_decode to return dateTime objects for xmlrpc datetimes
306 * improved: add new method SetCurlOptions to xmrlpc_client to allow extra flexibility in tweaking http config, such as
307 explicitly binding to an ip address
308 * improved: add new method SetUserAgent to xmrlpc_client to to allow having different user-agent http headers
309 * improved: add a new member variable in server class to allow fine-tuning of the encoding of returned values when the
310 server is in 'phpvals' mode
311 * improved: allow servers in 'xmlrpcvals' mode to also register plain php functions by defining them in the dispatch map
313 * improved: catch exceptions thrown during execution of php functions exposed as methods by the server
314 * fixed: bad encoding if same object is encoded twice using php_xmlrpc_encode
317 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.2 - 2009/03/16
319 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced since
321 Regardless of the intimidating message about dropping PHP 4 support, it still does
322 support that ancient, broken and insecure platform.
325 * fixed: php warning when receiving 'false' in a bool value
326 * fixed: improve robustness of the debugger when parsing weird results from non-compliant servers
327 * fixed: format floating point values using the correct decimal separator even when php locale is set to one that uses
329 * fixed: use feof() to test if socket connections are to be closed instead of the number of bytes read (rare bug when
330 communicating with some servers)
331 * fixed: be more tolerant in detection of charset in http headers
332 * fixed: fix encoding of UTF8 chars outside of the BMP plane
333 * fixed: fix detection of zlib.output_compression
334 * improved: allow the add_to_map server method to add docs for single params too
335 * improved: added the possibility to wrap for exposure as xmlrpc methods plain php class methods, object methods and
339 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.1 - 2008/03/06
341 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced.
342 It is the last release of the library that will support PHP 4.
344 * fixed: work around bug in php 5.2.2 which broke support of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
345 * fixed: is_dir parameter of setCaCertificate() method is reversed
346 * fixed: a php warning in xmlrpc_client creator method
347 * fixed: parsing of '1e+1' as valid float
348 * fixed: allow errorlevel 3 to work when prev. error handler was a static method
349 * fixed: usage of client::setcookie() for multiple cookies in non-ssl mode
350 * improved: support for CP1252 charset is not part or the library but almost possible
351 * improved: more info when curl is enabled and debug mode is on
354 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2 - 2007/02/25
356 This release corrects a couple of bugs and adds a few minor features.
358 * fixed: debugger errors on php installs with magic_quotes_gpc on
359 * fixed: support for https connections via proxy
360 * fixed: wrap_xmlrpc_method() generated code failed to properly encode php objects
361 * improved: slightly faster encoding of data which is internally UTF-8
362 * improved: debugger always generates a 'null' id for jsonrpc if user omits it
363 * new: debugger can take advantage of a graphical value builder
364 (it has to be downloaded separately, as part of jsxmlrpc package)
365 * new: support for the <NIL/> xmlrpc extension
366 * new: server support for the system.getCapabilities xmlrpc extension
367 * new: wrap_xmlrpc_method() accepts two new options: debug and return_on_fault
370 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.1 - 2006/08/28
372 This release corrects quite a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
373 There is a minor security enhancement and overall speedup too.
375 It has been tested with PHP 4.0.5 up to 4.4.4 and 5.1.5.
376 Please note that 404pl1 is NOT supported, and has not been since 2.0.
378 *** PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW ***
380 CHANGES THAT MIGHT AFFECT DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS:
382 The wrap_php_function and wrap_xmlrpc_method functions have been moved out of
383 the base library file xmlrpc.inc into a file of their own: xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
384 You will have to include() / require() it in your scripts if you have been using
387 For increased security, the automatic rebuilding of php object instances out of
388 received xmlrpc structs in wrap_xmlrpc_method() has been disabled (but it can be
389 optionally reenabled).
391 The constructor of xmlrpcval() values has seen major changes, and it will not
392 throw a php warning anymore when invoked using an unknown xmlrpc type: the
393 error will only be written to php error log. Also new xmlrpcval('true', 'boolean')
394 is not supported anymore.
398 The new function php_xmlrpc_decode_xml() will take the xml representation of
399 either an xmlrpc request, response or single value and return the corresponding
400 php-xmlrpc object instance.
402 Both wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method() functions accept many more
403 options to fine tune their behaviour, including one to return the php code to
404 be saved and later used as standalone php script.
406 A new function wrap_xmlrpc_server() has been added, to wrap all (or some) of the
407 methods exposed by a remote xmlrpc server into a php class.
409 Lib internals have been modified to provide better support for grafting extra
410 functionality on top of it. Stay tuned for future releases of the EXTRAS package.
412 Last but not least a new file has been added: verify_compat.php, to help users
413 diagnose the level of compliance of the current php install with the library.
417 * fixed bug 1311927: client not playing nice with some proxy/firewall on ports != 80
418 * fixed bug 1334340: all ereg_ functions have been replaced with corresponding preg_
419 * fixed bug: wrong handling of 'deflate' http encoding, both server and client side
420 * fixed bug: sending compressed responses when php output compression is enabled was not working
421 * fixed bug: addarray() and addstruct() where not returning 1 when adding data to already initialized values
422 * fixed bug: non-ascii chars used in struct element names where not being encoded correctly
423 * restored compatibility with php 4.0.5 (for those poor souls still stuck on it)
424 * server->service() now returns either the payload or xmlrpcresp instance
425 * server->add_to_map() now accepts methods with no param definitions
426 * added new function: php_xmlrpc_decode_xml()
427 * added new function: wrap_xmlrpc_server()
428 * major improvements and security enhancements to wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method()
429 * documentation for single parameters of exposed methods can be added to the dispatch map
430 (and turned into html docs in conjunction with a future release of the extras package)
431 * full response payload is saved into xmlrpcresp object for further debugging
432 * stricter parsing of incoming xmlrpc messages: two more invalid cases are now detected
433 (double data element inside array and struct/array after scalar inside value element)
434 * debugger can now generate code that wraps a remote method into php function (works for jsonrpc, too)
435 * debugger has better support for being activated via a single GET call (for integration into other tools?)
436 * more logging of errors in a lot of situations
437 * javadoc documentation of lib files almost complete
438 * the usual amount of new testcases in the testsuite
439 * many performance tweaks and code cleanups
440 * added foundation for emulating the API of the xmlrpc extension (extras package needed)
443 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/24
445 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final.
447 With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small
448 bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and
449 ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff);
450 all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added,
451 including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc
452 client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations;
453 both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes.
454 The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities.
458 * fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work
459 * fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that
460 has return_type=phpvals
461 * fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error
462 * fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF8 charset
463 * fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii
464 chars where found when decoding
465 * new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1
466 connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too
467 * new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead
469 * new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user
470 coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log
471 * new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against
472 * new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values
473 (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec)
476 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22
478 This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
479 It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2.
481 * fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression
482 * fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding
484 * fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce
486 * new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map
487 * new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects
488 * new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing
489 values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'.
490 Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
491 * new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions
492 that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory
493 (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details)
494 * new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to
495 screen before being sent
496 * new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for
497 easier testing / subclassing
498 * changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64
499 encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem
502 The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new
503 parameters added to some functions.
504 Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot.
505 The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more
506 logical organization.
508 The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be
509 packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human
510 readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?).
513 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22
515 This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better
518 * fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https
519 * fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set
520 when it was declared inside the xml prologue
521 * added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client
522 side certificates for https connections
523 * fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when
524 $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8
525 * fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated)
526 * correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the
527 send() method call fails for some reason
528 * added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory
530 A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a
531 couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no
532 impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending
533 / subclassing the lib.
535 There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in
536 two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org)
539 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03
541 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1.
543 This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them
544 here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other
545 similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library).
546 No, really, trust me.
548 The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of
549 a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package).
551 The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified,
552 in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased.
553 I hope you find it easy.
555 Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has
558 It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and
559 in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods
560 for all cases, except when encoding base64 data.
562 Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion
563 of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa.
565 PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and
566 correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the
567 same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of
570 A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters
571 or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever.
573 A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server
574 to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it
575 can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net).
577 For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the
578 included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which
579 is commented in javadoc style quite a bit.
582 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14
584 This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem.
585 All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
586 As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible.
589 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30
591 This is a security vulnerability fix release.
592 All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible.
595 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03
597 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1
598 It's taken two years to get to the this point, but here we are, finally.
600 This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added.
601 All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking
603 The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main
604 development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when running PHP5).
606 Noteworthy changes include:
608 * do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5
609 * fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years
610 * proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char
611 * accept float values in exponential notation
612 * configurable http user-agent string
613 * use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting
614 * more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases
615 * much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers
616 * fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts
617 * parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more)
618 * be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add
619 javascript advertising at the end of hosted content
620 * the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation
622 This is the last release that will support PHP 3.
623 The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of
626 The changelog is available at:
627 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup
629 Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project
630 pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/
633 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0
635 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 (final). It's taken
636 two years to get to the 1.0 point, but here we are, finally. The major change
637 is re-licensing with the BSD open source license, a move from the custom
638 license previously used.
640 After this release I expect to move the project to SourceForge and find
641 another primary maintainer for the code. More details will follow to the
644 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
646 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
647 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
649 Bugfixes in this release include:
651 * Small fixes and tidying up.
653 New features include:
655 * experimental support for SSL via the curl extensions to PHP. Needs
656 PHP 4.0.2 or greater, but not PHP 4.0.6 which has broken SSL support.
658 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
660 Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are
661 available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to
662 <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
665 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9
667 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9. This is
668 is largely a bugfix release.
670 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
672 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
673 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
675 Bugfixes in this release include:
677 * Fixed string handling bug where characters between a </string>
678 and </value> tag were not ignored.
680 * Added in support for PHP's native boolean type.
682 New features include:
684 * new getval() method (experimental only) which has support for
685 recreating nested arrays.
686 * fledgling unit test suite
687 * server.php has support for basic interop test suite
689 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
691 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
692 mailing list, of which more details are available at
693 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
696 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8
698 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8.
700 This release fixes several bugs and adds a couple of new helper
701 functions. The most critical change in this release is that you can no
702 longer print debug info in comments inside a server method -- you must
703 now use the new xmlrpc_debugmsg() function.
705 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
707 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
708 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
710 Bugfixes in this release include:
712 * fixed whitespace handling in values
713 * correct sending of Content-length from the server
715 New features include:
717 * xmlrpc_debugmsg() method allows sending of debug info in comments in
718 the return payload from a server
720 * xmlrpc_encode() and xmlrpc_decode() translate between xmlrpcval
721 objects and PHP language arrays. They aren't suitable for all
722 datatypes, but can speed up coding in simple scenarios. Thanks to Dan
725 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
727 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
728 mailing list, of which more details are available at
729 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
732 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7
734 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7. This is
735 fixes some critical bugs that crept in. If it shows itself to be stable
736 then it'll become the 1.0 release.
738 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
740 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
741 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
743 Bugfixes in this release include:
745 * Passing of booleans should now work as expected
746 * Dollar signs and backslashes in strings should pass OK
747 * addScalar() now works properly to append to array vals
749 New features include:
751 * Added support for HTTP Basic authorization through the
752 xmlrpc_client::setCredentials method.
754 * Added test script and method for verifying correct passing of
757 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
759 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
760 mailing list, of which more details are available at
761 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
764 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6
766 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6. This is the
767 final beta before the 1.0 release.
769 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
771 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
772 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
774 New features in this release include:
776 * Perl and Python test programs for the demo server
777 * Proper fault generation on a non-"200 OK" response from a remote host
778 * Bugfixed base64 decoding
779 * ISO8601 helper routines for translation to and from UNIX timestamps
780 * reorganization of code to allow eventual integration of alternative
783 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
785 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
786 mailing list, of which more details are available at
787 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.