Topic: PHP 5.3 snapshots

[Jan-E]

PHP 5.3 will only get security updates until July 2014 and after that it will not receive any update anymore. The consequence is that PHP 5.3 releases will become sparse.

However, snapshots are still being made. As far as I can see they are made whenever a patch is applied to the PHP 5.3 branch. You can dowload them from http://windows.php.net/downloads/snaps/php-5.3/

The latest snapshot (Aug 20) contains a fix for a vulnerability in the openssl extension, that was a main reason for releasing PHP 5.4.19 and PHP 5.5.3 only a week after the previous releases.

Because some extensions for PHP 5.3 are still actively developed, I will build PHP 5.3 every once in a while and publish them here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8954372/php-5.3-nts-Win32-VC9-x86-098.zip
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8954372/php-5.3-Win32-VC9-x86-098.zip

They are compiled with Openssl 0.9.8y, the same version as PHP 5.3 still uses. So you should have no problems mingling my builds and the official PHP snapshots.

I have added still more extensions to the builds. Among them is one that is not yet published on pecl.php.net. But I found the extension interestingly enough to promote it.
php_crypto.dll: a wrapper around Openssl.

Sources and some documentation:
https://github.com/bukka/php-crypto
Please feel free to contact the author if you want to contribute (just open an issue).

[Vijit]

Mistakes in ts-snapshot: a lot of extentions was compiled with VC6 library and that is useless in PHP, compiled with VC9. I suppose, all of them useless

[Jan-E]

They are really VC9. Take a look at the phpinfo.htm in the zip, that was taken directly after compiling the whole bunch.