PLNews: Programming Language News

News, articles, announcements and information focusing on computer programming languages and their implementations.
May 02, 2008

PHP 5.2.6 Released

Posted: 2008-05-02 06:18:03
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PHP 5.2.6 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes security and bug fixes.

April 29, 2008

Roadsend PHP 2.9.6 Released

Posted: 2008-04-29 06:19:58
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Roadsend PHP 2.9.6 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: a new skeleton extension, a new C API for accessing the runtime, runtime performance and compatibility fixes, a new test suite, portability fixes for MinGW and FreeBSD, and other changes.

April 27, 2008

haXe/PHP Alpha 2 Released

Posted: 2008-04-27 10:02:12
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haXe/PHP Alpha 2 has been released. It is an extended version of the haXe compiler, targeting PHP.

This release includes: the implementation of resources, the integration of haxe.Template and haxe.Timer, bug fixes, new tests, and other changes.

April 13, 2008

haXe/PHP Announced

Posted: 2008-04-13 07:43:51
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haXe/PHP has been announced. It is an extended version of the haXe compiler, targeting PHP.

February 19, 2008

Roadsend PHP 2.9.5 Released

Posted: 2008-02-19 06:24:45
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Roadsend PHP 2.9.5 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: the partial implementation of the sockets extension, build system fixes, runtime and FastCGI backend optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

January 18, 2008

Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.4 Released

Posted: 2008-01-18 06:24:24
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Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.4 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: runtime improvements, FastCGI improvements, and bug fixes.

January 04, 2008

PHP 4.4.8 Released

Posted: 2008-01-04 21:40:55
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PHP 4.4.8 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes: security and bug fixes.

November 11, 2007

PHP 5.2.5 Released

Posted: 2007-11-11 23:10:00
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PHP 5.2.5 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes: security fixes, an upgrade to PCRE 7.3, an update of the timezone database to 2007.9, speed improvements for some array_*() functions, bug fixes, and other changes.

August 20, 2007

Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.2 Released

Posted: 2007-08-20 21:08:00
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Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.2 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: a Mac OS X port, debugger improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

June 01, 2007

PHP 5.2.3 Released

Posted: 2007-06-01 23:23:00
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PHP 5.2.3 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes: a number of security fixes, optimized digest generation in the md5() and sha1() functions, improved compilation of heredocs and interpolated strings, plus other changes.

May 03, 2007

PHP 5.2.2 Released

Posted: 2007-05-03 23:40:00
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PHP 5.2.2 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes: upgrades of the bundled GD, SQLite and PCRE libraries; the addition of methods to the DirectoryIterator and SplFileInfo classes; improvements to the memory manager; plus other changes and bug fixes.

PHP 4.4.7 Released

Posted: 2007-05-03 23:38:00
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PHP 4.4.7 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

March 01, 2007

PHP 4.4.6 Released

Posted: 2007-03-01 08:02:00
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PHP 4.4.6 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes an update of PCRE to version 7.0, and bug fixes.

February 14, 2007

PHP 4.4.5 Released

Posted: 2007-02-14 23:47:00
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PHP 4.4.5 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes: an update of PEAR to 1.5.0, an update of PCRE to 6.7, plus other changes and a number of bug fixes.

February 09, 2007

PHP 5.2.1 Released

Posted: 2007-02-09 18:33:00
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PHP 5.2.1 has been released. PHP is a scripting language suitable for embedding within HTML.

This release includes: performance optimizations, improvements to the filter and zip extensions, security fixes, the enabling of a memory limit by default, plus other changes and fixes.

February 07, 2007

Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.0 Released

Posted: 2007-02-07 08:08:00
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Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.0 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

The compiler is now released under the terms of the GPL and LGPL licenses. This release includes work related to debugging Web applications.

January 20, 2007

PHP Conference UK 2007 Announced

Posted: 2007-01-20 23:18:00

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PHP Conference UK 2007 has been announced.

The conference will be held on February 23, 2007, in London.

November 03, 2006

PHP 5.2.0 Released

Posted: 2006-11-03 22:55:00
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PHP 5.2.0 has been released. PHP is a scripting language suitable for embedding within HTML.

This release includes: a new memory manager for the Zend Engine, the addition of new JSON and ZIP extensions, performance improvements, security enhancements, plus other changes and bug fixes.

September 08, 2006

phc 0.1.7 Released

Posted: 2006-09-08 22:38:00
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phc 0.1.7 has been released. It is "a framework for static analysis of PHP scripts, PHP source to source transformations, and ultimately compiling PHP scripts down to native machine code."

This release includes some minor code cleanups.

August 17, 2006

PHP 4.4.4, 5.1.5 Released

Posted: 2006-08-17 23:04:00
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PHP 4.4.4 and 5.1.5 have been released. PHP is a scripting language suitable for embedding within HTML.

These releases include security and bug fixes.