nukeevangelist writes:  

some of the core-devs of php.net had a meeting in Paris, November 11th and 12th, 2005 :: they talked about the next enhancements of PHP 6 :: See the notes of the Paris-meeting, November 11th and 12th, 2005
Attendees: Marcus Börger (SOMABO) Wez Furlong (OmniTI) Rasmus Lerdorf (Yahoo!) Derick Rethans (eZ systems) Dmitry Stogov (Zend) Zeev Suraski (Zend) Jani Taskinen Andrei Zmievski (Yahoo!)

topics of the Paris-meeting get a full overview here: Read More...

nukeevangelist writes:  

The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.1 [28-Nov-2005] :: Some of the key improvements of PHP 5.1.1 include:

This is a regression correction release aimed at addressing several issues introduced by PHP 5.1.0, the core changes as follows: Read More...

nukeevangelist writes:  

The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.0. Some of the key features of PHP 5.1.0 include:

A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support.
Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X.
PDO extension is now enabled by default.

Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality.
Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded to latest versions.
Over 400 various bug fixes.
PEAR upgraded to version 1.4.5
In addition to new features, this release includes a number of important security fixes and we recommend that all users of PHP 5.0 and early adopters of PHP 5.1 betas upgrade to this release as soon as possible. The full list of changes in PHP 5.1.0 is available in the complete PHP V. 5xx Changelog [untill today]

some of the more major changes in PHP V. 5: (vgl. die Changelog)

nukeevangelist writes:  

Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2005 Program October 18-21, 2005 in San Francisco: some nukers should attend -

For this unique event in california, the global Nuke Group needs to send some english speaking experts - talking bout PHPNuke and oscn2uke.

who want to share their know-how and enthusiasm. The conference features several days, with distinct themas - who wants to talk bout PHPNuke and osc2nuke: The Zend conference should get some PHPNuke-Keynotes since PHPNuke is one of the most widespread PHP-application with friends in more than 40 countries.

The conference theme is "Power Your Business With PHP" and features keynote addresses from Marc Andreessen, Google VP Adam Bosworth, and executives from IBM, Oracle & Intel. Featured speakers include Michael Radwin of Yahoo!, Adam Trachtenberg of eBay, Joyce Park of Renkoo.com, George Schlossnagle & Wez Furlong of OmniTI, and, of course, Zeev Suraski & Andi Gutmans. In addition to keynotes and sessions, the conference also features tutorials, certification, a party continuing the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of PHP, and an exhibit hall including companies like Zend, IBM, Oracle, Intel, MySQL, Microsoft, eBay/PayPal, Emic Networks, ActiveGrid, ActiveState and SpikeSource. Registration discounts are still available.

nukeevangelist writes:  

news from the developer at php.net: PHP 5.1 Beta 3 Available [14-Jul-2005] The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.1Beta 3.
If all goes well, this beta release will be followed by a release candidate within a couple of weeks.

Some of the key improvements of PHP 5.1 include:

- PDO (PHP Data Objects) - A new native database abstraction layer providing performance, ease-of-use, and flexibility.
- Significantly improved language performance mainly due to the new Zend Engine II execution architecture.
- The PCRE extension has been updated to PCRE 5.0.
- Many more improvements including lots of new functionality and many bug fixes, especially in regards to SOAP, streams and SPL. See the bundled NEWS file for a more complete list of changes.
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nukeevangelist writes:  

More news on php.net: PHP 4.4.0 Released [11-Jul-2005] The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.4.0.

This is a maintenance release that addresses a serious memory corruption problem within PHP concerning references. If references were used in a wrong way, PHP would often create memory corruptions which would not always surface and be visible. The increased middle digit was required because the fix that corrected the problem with references changed PHP's internal API. PHP 4.4.0 does not have any new features, and is solely a bugfix release.  Read More...