News Archive - 2005

Here are the most important news items we have published in 2005 on PHP.net.

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PHP 5.1.1 Released

[28-Nov-2005] The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.1.1.
This is a regression correction release aimed at addressing several issues introduced by PHP 5.1.0, the core changes as follows:

• Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR's date package.
• Fixed fatal parse error when the last line of the script is a PHP comment.
• eval() hangs when the code being evaluated ends with a comment.
• Usage of \{$var} in PHP 5.1.0 resulted in the output of {$var} instead of the $var variable's value enclosed in {}.
• Fixed inconsistency in the format of PHP_AUTH_DIGEST between Apache 1 and 2 sapis.
• Improved safe_mode/open_basedir checks inside the cURL extension.

The complete details about all of the changes can be found in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.

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PHP 5.1.0 Released

[24-Nov-2005] 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 complete details about all of the changes can be found in the PHP 5 ChangeLog and an upgrading guide is available as well.

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PHP 4.4.1 Released

[31-Oct-2005] PHP 4.4.1 is now available for download. This version is a maintenance release, that contains numerous bug fixes, including a number of security fixes related to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array. All users of PHP 4.3 and 4.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The full list of changes in PHP 4.4.1 is available in the PHP 4 ChangeLog.

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Forum PHP in Paris, November 9 & 10th, 2005

[05-Oct-2005] The French AFUP association is proud to announce the fourth annual PHP meeting in Paris, on November 9th and 10th, 2005. Developers and managers will gather to meet Rasmus Lerdorf, Wez Furlong and other prominent community experts for two days of sessions, packed with enterprise solutions and advanced techniques (in French).

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Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2005 Program Announced

[20-Sep-2005] The final program for the Zend / PHP Conference (October 18-21, 2005 in San Francisco) is now available. The conference theme is "Power Your