<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:php="http://php.net/ns/news" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <title>PHP.net news &amp; announcements</title> <updated>2013-01-11T15:31:28-06:00</updated> <link href="http://www.php.net/feed.atom" rel="self"/> <icon>http://php.net/images/news/php-logo.gif</icon> <id>http://php.net/archive/index.php</id> <author> <name>Webmaster</name> <uri>http://php.net/contact</uri> <email>php-webmaster@lists.php.net</email> </author> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:default="http://php.net/ns/news" xml:base="entries/2013-01-11-1.xml"> <title>ConFoo: Last Chance to Save $145</title> <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-01-11-1</id> <published>2013-01-11T21:31:28+00:00</published> <updated>2013-01-11T21:31:28+00:00</updated> <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2013-02-25</default:finalTeaserDate> <category term="conferences" label="Conference announcement"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2013-01-11-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <default:newsImage xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news" link="http://confoo.ca" title="ConFoo 2013">confoo-2013-php.jpg</default:newsImage> <link href="http://confoo.ca" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Save $145 on ConFoo tickets by purchasing before January 20th. <a href="http://confoo.ca/en/register">Register online</a> without delay. ConFoo 2013 will be held on February 27th through March 1st in Montreal, Canada and is loaded with PHP content.</p> <p>We gathered 100 speakers from around the world to talk about all aspects of web programming. The conference is preceeded by two training days. Places are very limited. Choose from 4 training topics:</p> <ul> <li>Advanced PHP Training (Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts and Stefan Priebsch)</li> <li>PHP Web Security: From Exploitation to Correction (Jonathan Marcil)</li> <li>Practical Symfony2 (Hugo Hamon)</li> <li>JavaScript Training (Laurent Villeneuve)</li> </ul> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="entries/2013-01-10-1.xml"> <title>PHP 5.5.0 Alpha3 released</title> <id>http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-01-10-1</id> <published>2013-01-10T14:42:37+00:00</published> <updated>2013-01-10T14:42:37+00:00</updated> <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2013-01-10-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <link href="http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-01-10-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha3. This release adds few features and fix some bugs from alpha2. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in <a href="https://bugs.php.net">the bug tracking system</a>. </p> <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> <p> PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) : </p> <ul> <li>Generator::throw() method, </li> <li>New cURL functions and options such as curl_escape(), curl_multi_setopt(), curl_multi_strerror(), curl_pause(), curl_reset()... </li> <li>Max-Age attribute support in setcookie(), </li> <li>Few bug fixes in mysqlnd and core </li> </ul> <p>You can read the full list of changes in the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0alpha3/NEWS">NEWS file</a> contained in the release archive. </p> <p> For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3 please visit the <a href="http://downloads.php.net/dsp">download page</a>, Windows binaries can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>. </p> <p> Thank you for supporting PHP. </p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="entries/2012-12-21-1.xml"> <title>PHP 5.5.0 Alpha2 released</title> <id>http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-21-1</id> <published>2012-12-21T16:19:14+00:00</published> <updated>2012-12-21T16:19:14+00:00</updated> <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2012-12-21-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <link href="http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-21-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0alpha2. This release adds new features and fix some bugs from alpha1. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in <a href="https://bugs.php.net">the bug tracking system</a>. </p> <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> <p> PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) : </p> <ul> <li>Support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions, </li> <li>Systemtap support by enabling systemtap compatible dtrace probes on linux, </li> <li>Optimized access to temporary and compiled VM variables. 8% less memory reads. </li> </ul> <p> Please, note that this alpha version also introduces the ext/mysql depreciation. </p> <p>You can read the full list of changes in the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0alpha2/NEWS">NEWS file</a> contained in the release archive. </p> <p> For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 please visit the <a href="http://downloads.php.net/dsp">download page</a>, Windows binaries can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>. </p> <p> Thank you for helping us making PHP better. </p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:default="http://php.net/ns/news" xml:base="entries/2012-12-20-2.xml"> <title>PHPBenelux Conference 2013</title> <id>http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-20-2</id> <published>2012-12-20T12:16:46-08:00</published> <updated>2012-12-20T12:16:46-08:00</updated> <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2013-01-26</default:finalTeaserDate> <category term="conferences" label="Conference announcement"/> <link href="http://php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-12-20-2" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <default:newsImage xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news" link="http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2013/" title="PHPBenelux Conference 2013">phpbenelux_conference_logo-01-e1344277762627.png</default:newsImage> <link href="http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2013/" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> After a very successful 2012 edition, we are proud to announce PHPBenelux Conference 2013. This event will take place on Friday January 25th and Saturday January 26th 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. We organize a community oriented conference that is built around an excellent lineup and awesome socials. Our schedule has been announced and tickets are available. Go to <a href="http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2013/">http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2013/</a> for more information. </p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="entries/2012-12-20-1.xml"> <title>PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 released!</title> <id>http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-20-1</id> <published>2012-12-20T11:38:49+00:00</published> <updated>2012-12-20T11:38:49+00:00</updated> <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2012-12-20-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <link href="http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-20-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <div> <p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20. These releases fix about 15 bugs. Please note that the PHP 5.3 series will enter an end of life cycle and receive only critical fixes as of March 2013. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.</p> <p>For source downloads of PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 please visit our <a href="/downloads.php">downloads page</a>, Windows binaries can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/download/">windows.php.net/download/</a>.</p> <p>The list of changes are recorded in the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php">ChangeLog</a>.</p> </div> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:default="http://php.net/ns/news" xml:base="entries/2012-12-19-1.xml"> <title>php[tek] 2013 Conference</title> <id>http://php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-12-19-1</id> <published>2012-12-19T14:57:57-08:00</published> <updated>2012-12-19T14:57:57-08:00</updated> <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2013-01-15</default:finalTeaserDate> <category term="cfp" label="Call for Papers"/> <link href="http://php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-12-19-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <default:newsImage xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news" link="http://tek13.phparch.com/" title="php[tek] 2013">tek13_badge.png</default:newsImage> <link href="http://tek13.phparch.com/" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>We are pleased to announce that <a href="http://tek13.phparch.com/">tek13</a> will be taking place this year again at it's traditional location in Chicago, IL. This year's dates are from May 14th - 17th, 2013. It will again be a 3-track conference with a focus on the community.</p> <p>The <a href="http://tek13.phparch.com/call-for-papers/">Call for Papers</a> has been announced and will be running until January 15th, 2013. Conference registration will open on January 1st. We look forward to seeing many of you there this year!</p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="entries/2012-11-22-1.xml"> <title>PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19 released!</title> <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-11-22-1</id> <published>2012-11-22T17:54:29+01:00</published> <updated>2012-11-22T17:54:29+01:00</updated> <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/index.php#id2012-11-22-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-11-22-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19. These releases fix over 15 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.9, or at least 5.3.19.</p> <p>For source downloads of PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19 please visit our <a href="/downloads.php">downloads page</a>, Windows binaries can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/download/">windows.php.net/download/</a>.</p> <p>The list of changes are recorded in the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php">ChangeLog</a>.</p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="entries/2012-11-15-1.xml"> <title>PHP 5.5.0 Alpha1 released</title> <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-11-15-1</id> <published>2012-11-15T14:10:06+00:00</published> <updated>2012-11-15T14:10:06+00:00</updated> <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/index.php#id2012-11-15-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-11-15-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0alpha1. This release marks the beginning of the PHP 5.5.0 release cycle. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in <a href="https://bugs.php.net">the bug tracking system</a>. </p> <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> <p> PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 comes with new features such as (incomplete list) : </p> <ul> <li>support for Generators,</li> <li>a new password hashing API,</li> <li>support for finally in try/catch blocks</li> <li>support for list() in foreach,</li> <li>constant array/string dereferencing,</li> <li>ext/intl improvement.</li> </ul> <p>We also dropped support for Windows XP and 2003.</p> <p>You can read the full list of changes in the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0alpha1/NEWS">NEWS file</a> contained in the release archive. </p> <p> For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 please visit the <a href="http://downloads.php.net/dsp">download page</a>, Windows binaries can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>. </p> <p> Thank you for helping us making PHP better. </p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:default="http://php.net/ns/news" xml:base="entries/2012-11-02-1.xml"> <title>PHP UK Conference</title> <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-11-02-1</id> <published>2012-11-02T09:39:14-07:00</published> <updated>2012-11-02T09:39:14-07:00</updated> <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2013-02-23</default:finalTeaserDate> <category term="cfp" label="Call for Papers"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-11-02-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <default:newsImage xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news" link="http://phpconference.co.uk/" title="PHP UK 2013">phpuk2013.jpeg</default:newsImage> <link href="http://phpconference.co.uk/" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> <a href="http://phplondon.org">PHP London</a> are pleased to announce the 8th Annual PHP UK conference; a 2-day event with 4 great tracks held at at The Brewery in the heart of the City of London on February 22nd- 23rd 2013. </p> <p> With over 600 delegates, speakers, and sponsors, PHP UK conference aims to deliver fantastic up to date content about PHP and related web technologies in a comfortable and professional setting. There are countless networking opportunities to engage with international speakers and delegates, which makes the event one you won't want to miss. </p> <p> Our call for papers is open until November the 22nd and we would love to hear from you! </p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:default="http://php.net/ns/news" xml:base="entries/2012-10-13-1.xml"> <title>Web Developer Conference (WDC) 2013</title> <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-10-13-1</id> <published>2012-10-13T16:17:20-07:00</published> <updated>2012-10-13T16:17:20-07:00</updated> <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2013-06-27</default:finalTeaserDate> <category term="conferences" label="Conference announcement"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-10-13-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <default:newsImage xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news" link="http://www.web-developer-conference.de/" title="WDC2013">Logo_WDC_2013.jpg</default:newsImage> <link href="http://www.web-developer-conference.de/" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> The Web Developer Conference (WDC) is the conference for web developers from the 24th – 27th June 2013 in Nuremberg (Germany). The conference is addressed to developers of web applications, content and online managers, agencies and webmasters. The WDC will be presented by the German trade magazine "web &amp; mobile developer". More information about the conference can be found on the website via <a href="http://www.web-developer-conference.de">www.web-developer-conference.de</a>. </p> </div> </content> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:default="http://php.net/ns/news" xml:base="entries/2012-10-05-1.xml"> <title>Midwest PHP Conference</title> <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-10-05-1</id> <published>2012-10-05T15:43:04-07:00</published> <updated>2012-10-05T15:43:04-07:00</updated> <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2013-03-03</default:finalTeaserDate> <category term="conferences" label="Conference announcement"/> <link href="http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-10-05-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> <default:newsImage xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news" link="http://www.midwestphp.com/" title="Midwest PHP Conference">rsz_midwestphpconference_customlogodesign_rl3.jpg</default:newsImage> <link href="http://www.midwestphp.com/" rel="via" type="text/html"/> <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> <a href="http://www.midwestphp.com/">MidwestPHP</a> (March 2 and 3rd, 2013 - St. Paul, MN, USA) is a two-day conference in the heart of Minnesota featuring 40+ sessions covering a wide range of topics ranging from PHP basics for newbies to advanced PHP concepts, frameworks, databases, third party tools and components, and web development. </p> </div> </content> </entry> </feed>