News Archive - 2011

    Here are the most important news items we have published in 2011 on PHP.net.

    PHP 5.4.0 RC4 released

    [25-Dec-2011]

    The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

    THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

    This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

    The new release candidate fixed several bugs, including:

    • Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions
    • Fixed a segfault in the traits code

    Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes in this release.

    Please continue to 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.

    The next release candidate will be released in 14 days.

    Dutch PHP Conference 2012

    Dutch PHP Conference 2012

    [23-Dec-2011]

    Ibuildings is proud to organise the sixth Dutch PHP Conference on June 8 and 9, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 7. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Technology, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks.

    Website: http://www.phpconference.nl/

    PHP 5.4.0RC3 released

    [14-Dec-2011]

    The PHP development team is proud to announce the third release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

    THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

    This is the third release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

    Changes since the previous release candidate include:

    • The intl extension now supports UTS #46 mapping for IDNA
    • $_SERVER[