PHPIDS » Web Application Security 2.0

We thought about adding a Christmas reference to the headline – something like the “Rupert Release” or even worse but thankfully we stopped our selves just in time. So – without further jibber-jabber – here it is – PHPIDS 0.5.4. This is the last minor release before 0.6. The release features a bug fix against a buffer overflow problem with mb_string functions Gareth Heyes informed us about just this morning. Also the HTMLPurifier has been upgraded to its most current release version.

Furthermore we had a ton of smaller bug fixes and performance improvements. David Lindsay and Gareth Heyes also found some more really esoteric circumventions of the XSS detection – that we fixed of course. Some bugs in the logging and caching system have been wiped out – thanks to the help of our forum users and Hinnerk Altenburg from epublica who detected several smaller performance bottlenecks. So you will benefit from better performance, robustness, more logging options, finally working database caching and a lot more details.

We wish you a lot of fun with new release – which you can find in the download area as usual – and hope for your feedback. Also don’t hesitate to send in feature requests for the coming 0.6. We also wish you a great new year to come and happy holidays!

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