1 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.6.0 - unreleased
3 * improved: when encoding utf8 text into us-ascii xml, use character entity references for characters number 0-31
4 (ascii non printable characters), as we were already doing when encoding iso-8859-1 text into us-ascii xml
6 * new: method `Server::getDispatchMap()`. Useful for non-child classes which want to f.e. introspect the server
8 * new: increase flexibility in class composition by adopting a Dependency Injection (...ish) pattern:
9 it is now possible to swap out the Logger, XMLParser and Charset classes with similar ones of your own making.
11 // 1. create an instance of a custom character encoder
12 // $myCharsetEncoder = ...
13 // 2. then use it while serializing a Request:
14 Request::setCharsetEncoder($myCharsetEncoder);
15 $request->serialize($funkyCharset);
17 * new: method `XMLParser::parse()` acquired a 4th argument
20 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.2 - 2021/1/11
22 * improved: better phpdocs in the the php code generated by the Wrapper class
24 * improved: debugger favicon and page title when used from the phpjsonrpc library
26 * fixed: allow `Encoder::decode` to properly support different target character sets for polyfill-xmlrpc decode functions
28 * improved: allow usage of 'epivals' for the 'parameters_type' member of methods definitions in the Server dispatch map
31 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.1 - 2021/1/3
33 * improved: made it easier to subclass the Helper\Charset class by allowing `instance` to use late static binding
35 * fixed: reinstated access to xmlrpc_server->dmap (for users of the v3 API)
37 * fixed: method `xmlrpc_encode_entitites` (for users of the v3 API)
39 * improved: split the code of the demo server in multiple files, describing better the purpose of each
42 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.0 - 2020/12/31
44 * new: it is now possible to control the precision used when serializing DOUBLE values via usage of
45 `PhpXmlRpc::$xmlpc_double_precision`
47 * fixed: `Encoder::encode` would not correctly encode DateTime and DateTimeImmutable objects
49 * improvements to to the Helper\Date class in rejecting invalid date strings
51 * improvements to the Wrapper class in identifying required arguments types from source code phpdoc: support 'array[]',
52 'DateTime' and 'DateTimeImmutable'
54 * improvements to the support of the XMLRPC extension emulation (now provided by the phpxmlrpc/polyfill-xmlrpc package)
56 * minor improvements to the Charset helper: it now loads character set conversion tables on demand, leading to
57 slightly lower memory usage and faster execution time when using UTF8 everywhere.
58 NB: take care if you have subclassed it!
60 * new method: `Server::isSyscall` - mostly of use to Server subclasses and friend classes such as introspectors
62 * internal method `XMLParser::xmlrpc_ee` now accepts 3 states for its 3rd parameter instead of a bool
64 * improvements in the inline phpdoc: tagged many methods and class member as reserved for internal usage only
66 * minor improvements in the debugger to allow easier integration of phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc and friends
68 * reorganized the test suite to be more manageable
70 * removed obsolete files from the 'extras' folder; updated and moved to the 'demo' folders the perl and python
71 client scripts; moved benchmark.php and verify_compat.php to the 'extras' folder
74 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.3 - 2020/12/17
76 * fixed: compatibility with PHP 8.0 (fixes to the debugger, to the server's 'system.methodHelp' method and to the
77 PhpXmlRpc\Wrapper class).
78 Note that method `Value::structeach` has not been removed from the API, but it is _not_ supported when running
79 on PHP 8.0 or later - in that case it will always throw an Error.
81 * improvements to the test stack: it is now possible to run it via Docker besides Travis; avoid using _any_ external
82 server when running tests; run Travis tests also on php 8.0; bump PHPUnit versions in use
85 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.2 - 2020/3/4
87 * fixed: `client->setCookie()` bug: cookie values that contain spaces are now properly encoded in a way that gets them
88 decoded back to spaces on the receiving end if the server running on php 7.4 (or does RFC-compliant cookie decoding).
89 Beforehand we were encoding spaces to '+' characters.
92 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.1 - 2019/7/29
94 * fixed: allow handling huge xml messages (>=10MB) (issue #71)
96 * improved: make it easier to overtake the library's usage of `error_log`
99 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.2 - 2019/5/27
101 * fixed: remove one php 7.2 warning when using the v3 api
103 * 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
106 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.1 - 2018/1/20
108 * fixed: error when using https in non-curl mode
110 * fixed: compatibility of tests with php 7.2
112 * fixed: html injection in sample code
114 * fixed: warnings emitted by the *legacy* server in xmlrpcs.inc
116 * fixed: encoding of php variables of type 'resource' when using xmlrpc_encode in php-compatibility mode
118 * fixed: bad html tag in sample code
120 * improved: text of error messages
123 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.0 - 2017/11/6
125 * fixed: compatibility with Basic/Digest/NTLM auth when using client in cURL mode (issue #58)
127 * improved: added unit tests for Basic and Digest http auth. Also improved tests suite
129 * new: allow to force usage of curl for http 1.0 calls, as well as plain socket for https calls, via the method
130 `Client::setUseCurl()`
133 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.2 - 2017/10/15
135 * fixed: compatibility with Lighttpd target servers when using client in cURL mode and request body size > 1024 bytes (issue #56)
138 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.1 - 2017/9/3
140 * fixed: compatibility with php 7.2 (issue #55)
143 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.0 - 2017/6/30
145 * improved: allow also DateTimeImmutable objects to be detected as a date when encoding
148 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.1 - 2016/10/1
150 * fixed: error in server class: undefined function php_xmlrpc_encode (only triggered when not using the compatibility
151 shim with old versions)
154 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.0 - 2016/6/26
156 * improved: Added support for receiving <I8> and <EX:I8> integers, sending <I8>
158 If php is compiled in 32 bit mode, and an i8 int is received from a 3rd party, and error will be emitted.
159 Integers sent from the library to 3rd parties can be encoded using the i8 tag, but default to using 'int' by default;
160 the developer will have to create values as i8 explicitly if needed.
161 The library does *not* check if an outgoing integer is too big to fit in 4 bytes and convert it to an i8 automatically.
164 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.1 - 2016/3/27
166 * improved: all of the API documentation has been moved out of the manual and into the source code phpdoc comments
168 * fixed: when the internal character set is set to UTF-8 and the client sends requests (or the server responses), too
169 many characters were encoded as numeric entities, whereas some, like åäö, needed not not be
171 * fixed: the 'valtyp' property of Response was not present in all cases; the ValType property had been added by error
175 XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.0 - 2016/1/20
177 This release does away with the past and starts a transition to modern-world php.
179 Code has been heavily refactored, taking care to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible,
180 but some breackage is to be expected.
182 The minimum required php version has been increased to 5.3, even though we strongly urge you to use
183 more recent versions.
185 PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BELOW to insure a smooth upgrade.
187 * new: introduction of namespaces and full OOP.
189 All php classes have been renamed and moved to separate files.
190 Class autoloading can now be done in accord with the PSR-4 standard.
191 All global variables and global functions have been removed.
192 Iterating over xmlrpc value objects is now easier thank to support for ArrayAccess and Traversable interfaces.
194 Backward compatibility is maintained via lib/xmlrpc.inc, lib/xmlrpcs.inc and lib/xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
195 For more details, head on to doc/api_changes_v4.md
197 * changed: the default character encoding delivered from the library to your code is now utf8.
198 It can be changed at any time setting a value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_internalencoding
200 * improved: the library now accepts requests/responses sent using other character sets than UTF-8/ISO-8859-1/ASCII.
201 This only works when the mbstring php extension is enabled.
203 * improved: no need to call anymore $client->setSSLVerifyHost(2) to silence a curl warning when using https
204 with recent curl builds
206 * improved: the xmlrpcval class now supports the interfaces Countable and IteratorAggregate
208 * improved: a specific option allows users to decide the version of SSL to use for https calls.
209 This is useful f.e. for the testing suite, when the server target of calls has no proper ssl certificate,
210 and the cURL extension has been compiled with GnuTLS (such as on Travis VMs)
212 * improved: the function wrap_php_function() now can be used to wrap closures (it is now a method btw)
214 * improved: all wrap_something() functions now return a closure by default instead of a function name
216 * improved: debug messages are not html-escaped any more when executing from the command line
218 * improved: the library is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/ ).
219 Tests are executed using all php versions from 5.3 to 7.2; code-coverage information
220 is generated using php 5.6 and uploaded to both Code Coverage and Scrutinizer online services
222 * improved: phpunit is now installed via composer, not bundled anymore
224 * improved: when phpunit is used to generate code-coverage data, the code executed server-side is accounted for
226 * improved: the test suite has basic checks for the debugger and demo files
228 * improved: more tests in the test suite
230 * fixed: the server would not reset the user-set debug messages between subsequent service() calls
232 * fixed: the server would not reset previous php error handlers when an exception was thrown by user code and
233 exception_handling set to 2
235 * fixed: the server would fail to decode a request with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml
238 * fixed: the client would fail to decode a response with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml
241 * fixed: the function decode_xml() would not decode an xml with character set declaration in the xml prolog
243 * fixed: the client can now successfully call methods using ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 characters in their name
245 * fixed: the debugger would fail sending a request with ISO-8859-1 payload (it missed the character set declaration).
246 It would have a hard time coping with ISO-8859-1 in other fields, such as e.g. the remote method name
248 * fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for signatures containing NULL
249 or undefined parameters
251 * fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for methods with multiple
254 * improved: the debugger is displayed using UTF-8, making it more useful to debug any kind of service
256 * improved: echo all debug messages even when there are characters in them which php deems to be in a wrong encoding;
257 previously those messages would just disappear (this is visible e.g. in the debugger)
259 * changed: debug info handling
260 - at debug level 1, the rebuilt php objects are not dumped to screen (server-side already did that)
261 - at debug level 1, curl communication info are not dumped to screen
262 - at debug level 1, the tests echo payloads of failures; at debug level 2 all payloads
264 * improved: makefiles have been replaced with a php_based pakefile
266 * improved: the source for the manual is stored in asciidoc format, which can be displayed natively by GitHub
267 with nice html formatting. Also the HTML version generated by hand and bundled in tarballs is much nicer
268 to look at than previous versions
270 * improved: all php code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard
273 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 - 2014/6/15
275 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
278 The requirements have increased to php 5.1.0 - which is still way older than what you should be running for any serious
281 It also is the first release to be installable via composer.
283 See the Changelog file or the pdf docs for a complete list of changes.
286 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 beta - 2009/09/05
288 This is the first release of the library to only support PHP 5.
289 Some legacy code has been removed, and support for features such as exceptions
290 and dateTime objects introduced.
292 The "beta" tag is meant to indicate the fact that the refactoring has been more widespread
293 than in precedent releases and that more changes are likely to be introduced with time -
294 the library is still considered to be production quality.
296 * improved: removed all usage of php functions deprecated in php 5.3, usage of assign-by-ref when creating new objects
298 * improved: add support for the <ex:nil/> tag used by the apache library, both in input and output
299 * improved: add support for dateTime objects in both in php_xmlrpc_encode and as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
300 * improved: add support for timestamps as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
301 * improved: add option 'dates_as_objects' to php_xmlrpc_decode to return dateTime objects for xmlrpc datetimes
302 * improved: add new method SetCurlOptions to xmrlpc_client to allow extra flexibility in tweaking http config, such as
303 explicitly binding to an ip address
304 * improved: add new method SetUserAgent to xmrlpc_client to to allow having different user-agent http headers
305 * improved: add a new member variable in server class to allow fine-tuning of the encoding of returned values when the
306 server is in 'phpvals' mode
307 * improved: allow servers in 'xmlrpcvals' mode to also register plain php functions by defining them in the dispatch map
309 * improved: catch exceptions thrown during execution of php functions exposed as methods by the server
310 * fixed: bad encoding if same object is encoded twice using php_xmlrpc_encode
313 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.2 - 2009/03/16
315 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced since
317 Regardless of the intimidating message about dropping PHP 4 support, it still does
318 support that ancient, broken and insecure platform.
321 * fixed: php warning when receiving 'false' in a bool value
322 * fixed: improve robustness of the debugger when parsing weird results from non-compliant servers
323 * fixed: format floating point values using the correct decimal separator even when php locale is set to one that uses
325 * fixed: use feof() to test if socket connections are to be closed instead of the number of bytes read (rare bug when
326 communicating with some servers)
327 * fixed: be more tolerant in detection of charset in http headers
328 * fixed: fix encoding of UTF8 chars outside of the BMP plane
329 * fixed: fix detection of zlib.output_compression
330 * improved: allow the add_to_map server method to add docs for single params too
331 * improved: added the possibility to wrap for exposure as xmlrpc methods plain php class methods, object methods and
335 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.1 - 2008/03/06
337 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and sucesfully reproduced.
338 It is the last release of the library that will support PHP 4.
340 * fixed: work around bug in php 5.2.2 which broke support of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
341 * fixed: is_dir parameter of setCaCertificate() method is reversed
342 * fixed: a php warning in xmlrpc_client creator method
343 * fixed: parsing of '1e+1' as valid float
344 * fixed: allow errorlevel 3 to work when prev. error handler was a static method
345 * fixed: usage of client::setcookie() for multiple cookies in non-ssl mode
346 * improved: support for CP1252 charset is not part or the library but almost possible
347 * improved: more info when curl is enabled and debug mode is on
350 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2 - 2007/02/25
352 This release corrects a couple of bugs and adds a few minor features.
354 * fixed: debugger errors on php installs with magic_quotes_gpc on
355 * fixed: support for https connections via proxy
356 * fixed: wrap_xmlrpc_method() generated code failed to properly encode php objects
357 * improved: slightly faster encoding of data which is internally UTF-8
358 * improved: debugger always generates a 'null' id for jsonrpc if user omits it
359 * new: debugger can take advantage of a graphical value builder
360 (it has to be downloaded separately, as part of jsxmlrpc package)
361 * new: support for the <NIL/> xmlrpc extension
362 * new: server support for the system.getCapabilities xmlrpc extension
363 * new: wrap_xmlrpc_method() accepts two new options: debug and return_on_fault
366 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.1 - 2006/08/28
368 This release corrects quite a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
369 There is a minor security enhancement and overall speedup too.
371 It has been tested with PHP 4.0.5 up to 4.4.4 and 5.1.5.
372 Please note that 404pl1 is NOT supported, and has not been since 2.0.
374 *** PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW ***
376 CHANGES THAT MIGHT AFFECT DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS:
378 The wrap_php_function and wrap_xmlrpc_method functions have been moved out of
379 the base library file xmlrpc.inc into a file of their own: xmlrpc_wrappers.inc.
380 You will have to include() / require() it in your scripts if you have been using
383 For increased security, the automatic rebuilding of php object instances out of
384 received xmlrpc structs in wrap_xmlrpc_method() has been disabled (but it can be
385 optionally reenabled).
387 The constructor of xmlrpcval() values has seen major changes, and it will not
388 throw a php warning anymore when invoked using an unknown xmlrpc type: the
389 error will only be written to php error log. Also new xmlrpcval('true', 'boolean')
390 is not supported anymore.
394 The new function php_xmlrpc_decode_xml() will take the xml representation of
395 either an xmlrpc request, response or single value and return the corresponding
396 php-xmlrpc object instance.
398 Both wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method() functions accept many more
399 options to fine tune their behaviour, including one to return the php code to
400 be saved and later used as standalone php script.
402 A new function wrap_xmlrpc_server() has been added, to wrap all (or some) of the
403 methods exposed by a remote xmlrpc server into a php class.
405 Lib internals have been modified to provide better support for grafting extra
406 functionality on top of it. Stay tuned for future releases of the EXTRAS package.
408 Last but not least a new file has been added: verify_compat.php, to help users
409 diagnose the level of compliance of the current php install with the library.
413 * fixed bug 1311927: client not playing nice with some proxy/firewall on ports != 80
414 * fixed bug 1334340: all ereg_ functions have been replaced with corresponding preg_
415 * fixed bug: wrong handling of 'deflate' http encoding, both server and client side
416 * fixed bug: sending compressed responses when php output compression is enabled was not working
417 * fixed bug: addarray() and addstruct() where not returning 1 when adding data to already initialized values
418 * fixed bug: non-ascii chars used in struct element names where not being encoded correctly
419 * restored compatibility with php 4.0.5 (for those poor souls still stuck on it)
420 * server->service() now returns either the payload or xmlrpcresp instance
421 * server->add_to_map() now accepts methods with no param definitions
422 * added new function: php_xmlrpc_decode_xml()
423 * added new function: wrap_xmlrpc_server()
424 * major improvements and security enhancements to wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method()
425 * documentation for single parameters of exposed methods can be added to the dispatch map
426 (and turned into html docs in conjunction with a future release of the extras package)
427 * full response payload is saved into xmlrpcresp object for further debugging
428 * stricter parsing of incoming xmlrpc messages: two more invalid cases are now detected
429 (double data element inside array and struct/array after scalar inside value element)
430 * debugger can now generate code that wraps a remote method into php function (works for jsonrpc, too)
431 * debugger has better support for being activated via a single GET call (for integration into other tools?)
432 * more logging of errors in a lot of situations
433 * javadoc documentation of lib files almost complete
434 * the usual amount of new testcases in the testsuite
435 * many performance tweaks and code cleanups
436 * added foundation for emulating the API of the xmlrpc extension (extras package needed)
439 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/24
441 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final.
443 With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small
444 bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and
445 ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff);
446 all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added,
447 including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc
448 client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations;
449 both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes.
450 The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities.
454 * fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work
455 * fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that
456 has return_type=phpvals
457 * fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error
458 * fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF8 charset
459 * fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii
460 chars where found when decoding
461 * new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1
462 connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too
463 * new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead
465 * new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user
466 coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log
467 * new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against
468 * new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values
469 (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec)
472 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22
474 This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features.
475 It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2.
477 * fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression
478 * fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding
480 * fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce
482 * new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map
483 * new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects
484 * new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing
485 values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'.
486 Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
487 * new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions
488 that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory
489 (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details)
490 * new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to
491 screen before being sent
492 * new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for
493 easier testing / subclassing
494 * changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64
495 encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem
498 The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new
499 parameters added to some functions.
500 Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot.
501 The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more
502 logical organization.
504 The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be
505 packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human
506 readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?).
509 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22
511 This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better
514 * fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https
515 * fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set
516 when it was declared inside the xml prologue
517 * added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client
518 side certificates for https connections
519 * fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when
520 $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8
521 * fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated)
522 * correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the
523 send() method call fails for some reason
524 * added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory
526 A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a
527 couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no
528 impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending
529 / subclassing the lib.
531 There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in
532 two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org)
535 XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03
537 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1.
539 This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them
540 here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other
541 similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library).
542 No, really, trust me.
544 The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of
545 a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package).
547 The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified,
548 in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased.
549 I hope you find it easy.
551 Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has
554 It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and
555 in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods
556 for all cases, except when encoding base64 data.
558 Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion
559 of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa.
561 PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and
562 correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the
563 same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of
566 A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters
567 or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever.
569 A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server
570 to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it
571 can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net).
573 For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the
574 included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which
575 is commented in javadoc style quite a bit.
578 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14
580 This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem.
581 All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
582 As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible.
585 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30
587 This is a security vulnerability fix release.
588 All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible.
591 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03
593 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1
594 It's taken two years to get to the this point, but here we are, finally.
596 This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added.
597 All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking
599 The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main
600 development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when running PHP5).
602 Noteworthy changes include:
604 * do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5
605 * fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years
606 * proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char
607 * accept float values in exponential notation
608 * configurable http user-agent string
609 * use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting
610 * more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases
611 * much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers
612 * fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts
613 * parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more)
614 * be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add
615 javascript advertising at the end of hosted content
616 * the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation
618 This is the last release that will support PHP 3.
619 The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of
622 The changelog is available at:
623 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup
625 Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project
626 pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/
629 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0
631 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 (final). It's taken
632 two years to get to the 1.0 point, but here we are, finally. The major change
633 is re-licensing with the BSD open source license, a move from the custom
634 license previously used.
636 After this release I expect to move the project to SourceForge and find
637 another primary maintainer for the code. More details will follow to the
640 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
642 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
643 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
645 Bugfixes in this release include:
647 * Small fixes and tidying up.
649 New features include:
651 * experimental support for SSL via the curl extensions to PHP. Needs
652 PHP 4.0.2 or greater, but not PHP 4.0.6 which has broken SSL support.
654 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
656 Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are
657 available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to
658 <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
661 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9
663 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9. This is
664 is largely a bugfix release.
666 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
668 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
669 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
671 Bugfixes in this release include:
673 * Fixed string handling bug where characters between a </string>
674 and </value> tag were not ignored.
676 * Added in support for PHP's native boolean type.
678 New features include:
680 * new getval() method (experimental only) which has support for
681 recreating nested arrays.
682 * fledgling unit test suite
683 * server.php has support for basic interop test suite
685 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
687 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
688 mailing list, of which more details are available at
689 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
692 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8
694 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8.
696 This release fixes several bugs and adds a couple of new helper
697 functions. The most critical change in this release is that you can no
698 longer print debug info in comments inside a server method -- you must
699 now use the new xmlrpc_debugmsg() function.
701 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
703 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
704 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
706 Bugfixes in this release include:
708 * fixed whitespace handling in values
709 * correct sending of Content-length from the server
711 New features include:
713 * xmlrpc_debugmsg() method allows sending of debug info in comments in
714 the return payload from a server
716 * xmlrpc_encode() and xmlrpc_decode() translate between xmlrpcval
717 objects and PHP language arrays. They aren't suitable for all
718 datatypes, but can speed up coding in simple scenarios. Thanks to Dan
721 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
723 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
724 mailing list, of which more details are available at
725 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
728 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7
730 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7. This is
731 fixes some critical bugs that crept in. If it shows itself to be stable
732 then it'll become the 1.0 release.
734 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
736 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
737 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
739 Bugfixes in this release include:
741 * Passing of booleans should now work as expected
742 * Dollar signs and backslashes in strings should pass OK
743 * addScalar() now works properly to append to array vals
745 New features include:
747 * Added support for HTTP Basic authorization through the
748 xmlrpc_client::setCredentials method.
750 * Added test script and method for verifying correct passing of
753 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
755 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
756 mailing list, of which more details are available at
757 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.
760 XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6
762 I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6. This is the
763 final beta before the 1.0 release.
765 It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
767 Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you
768 can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/
770 New features in this release include:
772 * Perl and Python test programs for the demo server
773 * Proper fault generation on a non-"200 OK" response from a remote host
774 * Bugfixed base64 decoding
775 * ISO8601 helper routines for translation to and from UNIX timestamps
776 * reorganization of code to allow eventual integration of alternative
779 The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt
781 Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP
782 mailing list, of which more details are available at
783 http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to <xmlrpc@usefulinc.com>.