This is the first release of the library to only support PHP 5. Some legacy code has been removed, and support for features such as exceptions and dateTime objects introduced.
The "beta" tag is meant to indicate the fact that the refactoring has been more widespread than in precedent releases and that more changes are likely to be introduced with time - the library is still considered to be production quality.
improved: removed all usage of php functions deprecated in php 5.3, usage of assign-by-ref when creating new objects etc...
improved: add support for the <ex:nil/> tag used by the apache library, both in input and output
improved: add support for dateTime
objects in both in php_xmlrpc_encode and as
parameter for constructor of
xmlrpcval
improved: add support for timestamps as parameter for
constructor of xmlrpcval
improved: add option 'dates_as_objects' to
php_xmlrpc_decode to return
dateTime objects for xmlrpc
datetimes
improved: add new method
SetCurlOptions to
xmrlpc_client to allow extra flexibility in
tweaking http config, such as explicitly binding to an ip
address
improved: add new method
SetUserAgent to
xmrlpc_client to to allow having different
user-agent http headers
improved: add a new member variable in server class to allow fine-tuning of the encoding of returned values when the server is in 'phpvals' mode
improved: allow servers in 'xmlrpcvals' mode to also register plain php functions by defining them in the dispatch map with an added option
improved: catch exceptions thrown during execution of php functions exposed as methods by the server
fixed: bad encoding if same object is encoded twice using php_xmlrpc_encode