kses 0.2.2 out now

kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows and Denial of Service attacks. It is used by popular programs such as WordPress and Geeklog.

The 0.2.2 release adds a second object-oriented kses version for PHP 5, the use of isset() avoids PHP notice warnings, the chr(173) handling is changed to help Asian users, and the handling of closing HTML elements is improved.