I think we've set a new PHP release record today, 3 releases in one day, PHP 5.1.5, 4.4.4 and 5.2.0RC2. The first two are aimed at addressing a series of security faults that were discovered in stable branches. The good thing is that the issues found are mostly local exploits, so upgrading should definitely be a priority to shared hosting providers or multi-user PHP systems. That said, I would still recommend that all users of PHP consider upgrading their installs to the relevant releases. For information about the exploits themselves go to php.net The tar balls and win32 binaries for the releases can be found here for PHP 5.1.5 and PHP 4.4.4. As far as PHP 5.2.0RC2, this is an intermediate release,which brings us one step closer to the final release, hopefully sometime in September. As always, I'd like to ask everyone to give this release a try and see if your code runs on it or not and provide the PHP Development team with feedback. We are particularly interested in any new bugs, regression or dro...

A new version of FUDforum is on the release path. This release is largely a feature addition release with a fair quantity of new functionality being added. That said there were a few bug fixes sprinkled in between as well. The upgrade and installer can be downloaded from here: Installer Download Upgrade Script The main features of the new release include the following: Added an option that enabled admins and moderators to edit topic ratings. Added account moderators, who can approve new accounts as well as manage existing users. Added ability to display flags beside user names based on IP geo-location. Added an option of adding "permanent" announcements. To see details of all the changes see the release announcement.

I've just completed the upgraded of the bundled libsqlite in pdo driver from a fairly antiquated 3.2.8 to the latest 3.3.7. Yet, another reason to upgrade to 5.2.0 when it comes it ;-)

The first release candidate of PHP 5.2.0 has just been released. The source packages can be found here: http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC1.tar.bz2 (fa36d378f7f1fd547b881b6323ae2c60) http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC1.tar.gz (e217195c90e123acce0c2f71ac07f88d) Given that it took a few months to reach this point and addition of new features was allowed the changelog already looks extremely impressive. Some of the key changes include things like 3 new extensions (filter, json and zip), the date extension had the rest of its functionality enabled, much work was done in terms of getting PHP 5.2 to run faster and more efficiently (in terms on memory usage). There have also been nearly 80 bug fixes made to existing functionality, which hopefully translates to a more stable release. As the RM for this release, I'd like to ask everyone to download and try this PHP version on your software, see if the code still runs properly and hopefully faster then it did before. If you come across any proble...

A quick note to anyone building PHP with cURL or http extension support as well as one of the MySQL extensions (mysql, mysqli and pdo_mysql). The MySQL binaries found on mysql.com are built against yaSSL as opposed to the more common openssl against which libcurl (usede by cURL and HTTP extensions) is linked. The conflict between the two libraries causes curl initialization of the SSL layer to fail preventing startup of the PHP extensions. To fix this problem you can either use older mysqlclient binaries (5.0.18 works) or compile MySQL yourself against openssl, either of these two will allow a working build of PHP with MySQL and curl support.