Suhosin On PHP 5.4.3

Today, i cloned Suhosin tree at github because i wanted to try compiling it for my machine which is running PHP 5.4.3. As you recall, suhosin wasn't compatible with PHP 5.4 since there were a lot of changes introduced in PHP which caused it broken.

Steffan has started an initial steps to make Suhosin compilable with PHP 5.4 and he addressed any issues so quickly. I submitted an issue and in less than 24 hours, my issue has been fixed in the upstream tree and now Suhosin compiles on my machine running PHP 5.4.3. Looking forward to implement Suhosin on my other machines.

Suhosin Patch for PHP 5.4

For those who care about Security in PHP must know about Suhosin, made by Stefan Esser (aka i0n1c). It's an advanced protection system for PHP installations which provides better protection by adding patches that never pulled by the PHP developers into their main code. I have been using this project for some time to add protection on my server that i manage.

Ever since PHP released 5.4, the patch is no longer compatible due to some big changes in PHP 5.4, such as the removal of magic quotes and many other features that prone to securities. In one side, this is good news, but in other side, the patch that Suhosin provide is not available for PHP 5.4.

Stefan has said that he's working on Suhosin to be compatible with PHP 5.4, but that would take some time to complete. In fact, he mentioned that it would be completed around April. Let's hope his schedule is not slip.