In the latest stable version of PHP (5.3 at the time of writing) a number of ini directives and functions have been deprecated. Love it or hate it, the code that uses these ini directives and functions will behave badly when run in PHP 5.3. The TYPO3 core has been fine with PHP 5.3 for a while now, but the majority of the 5000+ extensions still uses deprecated functions.
PHP 5.3 has been out for a while now in several distributions. With the. . .
