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  • PHP 5.3.10 Released!

    The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.10. This release delivers a critical security fix.

    Security Fixes in PHP 5.3.10:

    • Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser, CVE-2012-0830.

    All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.10.

    For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.



  • PHP 5.4.0 RC6 released

    The PHP development team announces the 6th 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 6th 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 6th release candidate focused on improving traits. Please test them carefully and help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to 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.

    A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS

    The next candidate will be released on Feb 2.



  • ConFoo 2012

    ConFoo 2012 in Montreal, Canada on Feb 29 - Mar 02

    ConFoo is the unique web conference in Canada gathering different tech communities in one place.

    • find working solutions for your day to day challenges;
    • discover new tools that increase your productivity;
    • network with people from some of the world’s biggest companies;
    • 160 presentations focusing on core competencies improvement;

    Don't miss this great opportunity and register today! Also check out our two training days around PHP, HTML5, Symfony2 and security topics right before the conference.



  • PHP 5.3.9 Released!

    The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

    Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

    • Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
    • Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

    Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

    • Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
    • Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
    • Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

    For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.9, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

    All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.9.



  • PHP 5.4.0 RC5 released

    The PHP development team announces the 5th 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 5th 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.

    We got a lot of feedback that helped us to improve the upcoming PHP version. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to 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.

    A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS

    The next and probably last release candidate will be released in 14 days.



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