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We weren't trying to pull an April Fool's Day joke in May. A temporary glitch caused the latest distributions of PHP to not properly propagate to the mirror servers. This has been fixed at the root level, and it's now being distributed to all of the mirrors. We'll take some bacon to go with the egg on our faces, please!If you continue to experience issues with downloading these versions after 21:00 UTC on 9 May, 2013, please drop us a line at php-mirrors@lists.php.net, telling us from which mirror you're trying to download, and we'll get it resolved.We apologize for the delays and confusion this may have caused, and thank you for using PHP.

The PHP development team announces the availability of the first release candidate of PHP 5.5. This release fixes some bugs as well as some possible leaks from our last beta. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! You can find an incomplete changelog of PHP 5.5.0RC1 here : Ignore QUERY_STRING when sent in SCRIPT_FILENAME in FPM SAPI.Fix build with system libgd >= 2.1 which is now the minimal version required (as build with previous version is broken). No change when bundled libgd is used. Fixed some bugs in SNMP Fixed bug where stream_select() fails with pipes returned by proc_open() on Windows x64). To get the full changelog, please, check the NEWS file attached to the archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0RC1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Note that our release candidate cycle is only meant to bug fixes, no more features will be added to PHP 5.5 from now. Please help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker. We would like to thank all people helping us making PHP better by testing it and reporting problems, as well as all its contributors for their great work on this 5.5 version of PHP.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25. These releases fix about 10 bugs aswell as upgrading the bundled libmagic library. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.15.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the release of the 4th beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 3 and cleans up some features. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0beta4 is shipped with some bug fixes. Here is the list: Fixed bug #64677, execution operator `` stealing surrounding arguments.Fixed bug #64342, ZipArchive::addFile() has to check for file existence.Fixed Windows x64 version of stream_socket_pair() and improved error handling.Remove curl stream wrappersYou can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta4 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Next step is Release Candidate. Our 1st RC is expected for May 9th. Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24. These releases fix about 10 bugs aswell as upgrading the bundled PCRE library. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.14.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the release of the 3rd beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 2. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0beta3 is shipped with some bug fixes and improvements. Here is an incomplete list: Drop support for bison

The PHP development team announces the release of the second beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs from beta one that could prevent the release from compiling. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0beta2 is shipped with some bug fixes. Here is an incomplete list: Fixed a memoryleak when using the same variablename 2times in function declaration.Fixed a compilation fail with error: conflicting types for 'zendparse'Fixed Debug backtrace changed behavior since 5.4.10 or 5.4.11You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta2 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Our next beta is expected for April 11th. Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of the first beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release is the first to include the Zend OPCache. Please help our efforts to provide a stable PHP version and test this version carefully against several different applications, with Zend OPCache enabled and report any bug in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0beta1 is shipped with improvements. Here is an incomplete list: Added Zend Opcache extension (but disabled by ini setting),Added array_column function which returns a column in a multidimensional array,Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach,Added support for changing the process's title in CLI/CLI-Server SAPIsYou can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. This beta marks the beginning of the feature freeze. No new features will be added to PHP 5.5 after this point. Please, test and help us to roll out a stable release. Our next beta is planned for April 4th. Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.13 and PHP 5.3.23. These releases fix about 15 bugs, including fixes for CVE-2013-1643 and CVE-2013-1635. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.13.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.13 and PHP 5.3.23 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha6. This release fixes some bugs from alpha5. It also serves as a delay for our next release, beta1, integrating ZendOptimizer+ OPCode cache which is not ready yet to be merged. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0alpha6 is shipped with improvements. Here is an incomplete list: Fixed a bug where uninitialized ++$foo->bar; does not cause a notice,Updated bundled PCRE 8.32,Fixed a bug in ext/sockets where sendmsg/recvmsg shutdown handler causes segfaultYou can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha6 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Our first beta should show up on 21st of March. Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha5. This release fixes some bugs from alpha4 and adds some new features. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0alpha5 is shipped with new features and improvements. Here is an incomplete list: Added the ability to change the tmp dir PHP will use during runtime, using a new php.ini entry, Added mysqli_begin_transaction()/mysqli::begin_transaction(). Implemented all options, per MySQL 5.6, which can be used with START TRANSACTION, COMMIT and ROLLBACK through options to mysqli_commit()/mysqli_rollback() and their respective OO counterparts. These changes are reflected in the mysqlnd API as well, Added recvmsg() and sendmsg() wrappers for ext/sockets You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha5 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Alpha5 is the last alpha for PHP 5.5. There has been a delay in alpha releases due to late coming new features. We are now beginning the betas, and the first beta is expected for March 7th. Betas won't add any new features, except the first one, but consolidate the source code and fix found bugs. Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.12 and PHP 5.3.22. These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.12.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.12 and PHP 5.3.22 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

Today we will talk about migrations, yaml files and CakePHP and in particular I’ll introduce you to the latest shell I’ve written for CakePHP. Migrations allow you to define changes to your database schema, making it possible to use a version control system to keep things synchronized with the actual code.

Reference counting macros; Turkish locale bugs; namespaces and autoload [continued]; constant folding optimization; zend_alter_ini_entry finally fixed

Today we are going to do something a little different. I’ve got books stacking up here that need reviewing, so I’m going to start interjecting book reviews into the podcast stream. This week’s book is “PHP In Action” by Manning Publications

Safe mode objection; namespaces and __autoload; PHP 5.3 discussions and TODO list; Windows installer extensions; magic methods and by-ref arguments; PHP 5.2.4 released

So, you want to create your own mashup? Great! Mashups—web applications that grab information from different external sources and mix it together in new and exciting ways—are fun to build and popular with users.

Multiple namespaces - and brackets; unicode.semantics (for the last time?); constants in namespaces; integrating PHP with a homegrown server; patches for LSB, setcookie2(); PHP 5.2.4 RC 3 available for testing

Today, we are going to talk to the PECL princess herself, Sara Golemon. Sara is one of the core contributors to PHP and when she’s not coding for PHP, speaking at conferences or writing books she fills her time working at Yahoo. I had the privilege of sitting down with Sara at php|works earlier this year in Atlanta GA and talk with her about her background, why she likes PHP and anything else that came to mind.

Microsoft is releasing FastCGI for IIS6, meaning the shiny little “beta” tag is finally going the way of the dodo. What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has some great documentation on the subject, however I’ll put it in layman’s terms for those who aren’t Computer Science majors.