PLNews: Programming Language News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PHP Conference UK 2007 has been announced.

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

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.

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.

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.

phc 0.1.7rc2 has been released. It is an open-source PHP compiler which aims to eventually emit assembly code.

This release includes several bugfixes.

phc 0.1.7rc1 has been released. It is an open-source PHP compiler which aims to eventually emit assembly code.

This release includes: support for extension via plugins, documentation updates, plus other changes and fixes.

phc 0.1.6rc2 has been released. It is an open-source PHP compiler which aims to eventually emit assembly code.

This release includes bugfixes.

phc 0.1.6rc1 has been released. It is an open-source PHP compiler which aims to eventually emit assembly code.

This release includes: the use of automake and autoconf during the build process, tree transformation API improvements, grammar simplifications, support for an XML representation of the AST, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.1.0 Beta has been released. It is a PHP compiler which emits optimized native binaries.

This release includes: SQLite and ODBC extensions, initial PHP5 support, faster code execution, smaller compiled executable sizes, plus other changes and bugfixes.

PHP 5.1.4 has been released. PHP is a scripting language suitable for embedding within HTML.

This release fixes several bugs, including problems with file uploads and with the FastCGI SAPI.