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diff --git a/xmlrpc/NEWS b/xmlrpc/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 4352a4d07..000000000 --- a/xmlrpc/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,188 +0,0 @@ -XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/22 - -I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final. - -With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small -bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and -ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff); -all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added, -including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc -client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations; -both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes. -The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities. - -In greater detail: - -* fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work -* fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that - has return_type=phpvals -* fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error -* fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF8 charset -* fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii - chars where found when decoding -* new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1 - connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too -* new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead - of an xmlrpcresp -* new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user - coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log -* new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against -* new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values - (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec) - - -XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22 - -This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features. -It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2. - -* fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression -* fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding - set to UTF-8 -* fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce - invalid xml-rpc -* new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map -* new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects -* new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing - values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'. - Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 -* new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions - that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory - (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details) -* new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to - screen before being sent -* new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for - easier testing / subclassing -* changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64 - encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem -* other minor fixes - -The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new -parameters added to some functions. -Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot. -The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more -logical organization. - -The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be -packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human -readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?). - - -XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22 - -This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better -HTTPS support: - - * fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https - * fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set - when it was declared inside the xml prologue - * added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client - side certificates for https connections - * fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when - $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8 - * fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated) - * correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the - sned() method call fails for some reason - * added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory - -A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a -couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no -impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending -/ subclassing the lib. - -There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in -two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org) - - -XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03 - -I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1. - -This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them -here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other -similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library). -No, really, trust me. - -The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of -a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package). - -The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified, -in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased. -I hope you find it easy. - -Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has -been added at last. - -It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and -in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods -for all cases, except when encoding base64 data. - -Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion -of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa. - -PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and -correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the -same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of -type resource. - -A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters -or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever. - -A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server -to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it -can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net). - -For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the -included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which -is commented in javadoc style quite a bit. - - -XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14 - -This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem. -All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. -As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible. - - -XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30 - -This is a security vulnerability fix release. -All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible. - - -XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03 - -I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 -It's taken two years to get to the this point, but here we are, finally. - -This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added. -All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking -the API. -The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main -development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when runnning PHP5). - -Notheworthy changes include: - - * do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5 - * fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years - * proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char - * accept float values in exponential notation - * configurable http user-agent string - * use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting - * more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases - * much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers - * fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts - * parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more) - * be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add - javascript advertising at the end of hosted content - * the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation - -This is the last release that will support PHP 3. -The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of -new features. - -The changelog is available at: -http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup - -Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project -pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/ |