Archive for the ‘php.net’ Category

TestFest 2008

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The PHP-QA team would like to announce the TestFest for the month of May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the ...

Google Summer of Code 2008

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year's GSoC.We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to ...

PHP 4.4.8 Released

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for ...

PHP 5.2.5 Released

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.5. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Further details ...

The new documentation build system is ready for testing

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

The PHP documentation team is pleased to announce the initial release of the new build system that generates the PHP Manual. Written in PHP, PhD ([PH]P based [D]ocBook renderer) builds are now available for viewing at docs.php.net. Everyone is encouraged to test and use this system so that bugs will ...

PHP 5.2.4 Released

Friday, August 31st, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.4. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.X branch with over 120 various bug fixes in addition to resolving several low priority security bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to ...

PHP 4 end of life announcement

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued. The PHP development team hereby ...

PHP 5.2.1 and PHP 4.4.5 Released

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.1 and availability of PHP 4.4.5. These releases are major stability and security enhancements of the 5.x and 4.4.x branches, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about ...

The front page has changed

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The news on the front page of php.net has changed, the conference announcements are now located on their own page. The idea is to keep php.net specific news clear and also opens the door for additional news entries, like for RC releases. More changes are on the way so keep ...

PHP 5.2.3 Released

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.3. This release continues to improve the security and the stability of the 5.X branch as well as addressing two regressions introduced by the previous 5.2 releases. These regressions relate to the timeout handling over non-blocking SSL ...

PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7 Released

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.2 and availability of PHP 4.4.7. These releases are major stability and security enhancements of the 5.x and 4.4.x branches, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about ...

The PHP.net Google Summer of Code

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Seven students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer: Mentored by Michael Wallner, Hannes Magnusson will work on LiveDocs, which is a "tool to display DocBook XML files in a web browser on the ...

PHP 4.4.6 Released

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.6. The main issue that this release addresses is a crash problem that was introduced in PHP 4.4.5. The problem occurs when session variables are used while register_globals is enabled. Details about the PHP 4.4.6 release can ...

PHP 5.2.3 Released

Friday, June 1st, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.3. This release continues to improve the security and the stability of the 5.X branch as well as addressing two regressions introduced by the previous 5.2 releases. These regressions relate to the timeout handling over non-blocking SSL ...

PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7 Released

Friday, May 4th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.2 and availability of PHP 4.4.7. These releases are major stability and security enhancements of the 5.x and 4.4.x branches, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about ...

The PHP.net Google Summer of Code

Friday, March 16th, 2007

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code, and we are still looking for project ideas from interested students. In case you want to spend the summer with your favorite Open Source project, PHP, and get some money for adding an interesting project ...

PHP 4.4.6 Released

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.6. The main issue that this release addresses is a crash problem that was introduced in PHP 4.4.5. The problem occurs when session variables are used while register_globals is enabled. Details about the PHP 4.4.6 release can ...

PHP 5.2.1 Released

Monday, February 12th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.1. This release is a major stability and security enhancement of the 5.X branch, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about this release can be found in ...

The front page has changed

Monday, February 12th, 2007

The news on the front page of php.net has changed, the conference announcements are now located on their own page. The idea is to keep php.net specific news clear and also opens the door for additional news entries, like for RC releases. More changes are on the way so keep ...

PHP Manual Updates

Monday, February 12th, 2007

The PHP documentation team is proud to present to the PHP community a few fixes and tweaks to the PHP Manual, including: an improved, XSL-based build system that will deliver compiled manuals to mirrors in a more timely manner (goodbye dsssl) manual pages can now contain images (see imagearc() for ...

PHP 5.2.1 Released

Friday, February 9th, 2007

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.1. This release is a major stability and security enhancement of the 5.X branch, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about this release can be found in ...

The front page has changed

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

The news on the front page of php.net has changed, the conference announcements are now located on their own page. The idea is to keep php.net specific news clear and also opens the door for additional news entries, like for RC releases. More changes are on the way so keep ...

PHP Manual Updates

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

The PHP documentation team is proud to present to the PHP community a few fixes and tweaks to the PHP Manual, including: an improved, XSL-based build system that will deliver compiled manuals to mirrors in a more timely manner (goodbye dsssl) manual pages can now contain images (see imagearc() for ...

International PHP Conference 2007 Spring Edition : Call for Paper

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

The International PHP Conference 2007 Spring Edition will happen from May, 21st to 23rd 2007 in Stuttgart. The Call for Papers has just been opened. You can find more information at http://phpconference.com/. There's a pre-conference day on 21st of May with full day Power Workshops and a Main Conference from ...

PHP London 2007

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

After the success of 2006 the PHP London user group is staging the UK's second dedicated PHP conference on Friday, 23 February 2007, in London. The conference will be a low-cost event, costing £50 for the day. Speakers include: Rasmus Lerdorf, Cal Evans, Simon Laws and Kevlin Henney.