[Mediawiki-l] PHP 4.2.x issues

Sat Nov 20 02:40:24 UTC 2004

On Nov 19, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:
>> From mediawiki's README:
>> The code is written in PHP. Version 4.3.2 or higher is
>> recommended. There are known issues with early 4.2.x
>> releases.
>
> What issues are these, exactly?

4.2.0 and 4.2.1 had serious security vulnerabilities, so avoid them! 
4.2.2 was the last of the 4.2.x series, iirc. (Look up the release 
notes on php.net if you want details.)

>  I would like to install mediawiki in sourceforge, but their version 
> of php is php-4.2.2-17.2. Can I install it anyway? How severe are the 
> issues mentioned in README?

Sourceforge's project web servers seem to be running PHP 4.1.2, 
actually. (The login shell server has 4.2.2.) It should generally work 
(several projects run MediaWikis on their SF project accounts), but you 
may or may not have mysterious login session problems and it might be 
really slow depending on how the servers are faring.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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