Release: AWS SDK for PHP 1.5.4

Signature version 4

Support for Signature Version 4 has been added to the SDK. Signature Version 4 is now the default authentication method for AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Security Token Service and Amazon CloudSearch.

Amazon CloudSearch

Support for Amazon CloudSearch has been added to the SDK. This includes only the Configuration API.

Amazon DynamoDB

• Support for BatchWriteItem API has been added to the SDK.
• Support for the European (Ireland) endpoint has been added.
• Support for the Asia Pacific "Northeast" (Tokyo) endpoint has been added.
• Amazon DynamoDB Session Handler has been added to the SDK.
• A simplified interface for adding attributes has been added to the SDK.

Amazon EC2

• The new "m1.medium" instance type is now supported.
• Amazon EBS support for Volume Status and Volume Attributes have been added to the SDK.
• Amazon EBS support for Conversion Tasks has been added to the SDK.
• Amazon EC2 support for the Report Instance Status feature has been added to the SDK.
• Amazon VPC support for Network Interfaces has been added to the SDK.

Amazon IAM

Support for Password Policies and the ability to change passwords has been added to the SDK.

Amazon S3

• Support for pre-signed URLs using temporary credentials has been added to the SDK.
• Support for setting a custom name to Lifecycle (i.e., Object Expiration) rules has been added to the SDK.
• Support for pre-signed URLs with HTTPS has been added to the SDK.

CFSimpleXML enhancements

Support for matches(), starts_with() and ends_with() methods have been added to the SDK. (Thanks Wil Moore III!)

Compatibility Test enhancements

SDK Compatibility Test pages are marked up as to not be indexed by search engines. (Thanks Eric Caron!)

Resolved forum issues

• PHP SDK Bug - Memory leak
• Does update_object work in 1.5.3?
• The value of CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
• PHP SDK BUG: s3.class.php Line 2396 on 1.5.2
• first create_bucket(), then get_bucket_list()
• Issue with AmazonS3::get_object_list() max-keys
• S3 PHP SDK: copy_object() fails to update the header
• Adding the ability to name a 'rule' for Object Expiration (suggested tweak)

Fixes from GitHub pull requests

• Correct the "Bottom line" minimum requirements check
• Adds the following utility methods to simplexml.class.php

Amazon EC2

Various parameter fixes have been applied.