1<?php 2$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'archive/2008.php'; 3include_once __DIR__ . '/../include/prepend.inc'; 4news_archive_sidebar(); 5site_header("News Archive - 2008", ["cache" => true]); 6?> 7 8<h1>News Archive - 2008</h1> 9 10<p> 11 Here are the most important news items we have published in 2008 on PHP.net. 12</p> 13 14<hr> 15 16<div class="newsItem hentry"> 17 <div class="newsImage"></div> 18 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-12-10-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-10-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Windows PECL binaries</a></h1> 19 <div class="entry-content description"> 20 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-12-10T19:50:38+01:00">[10-Dec-2008]</abbr> 21 22 <div> 23 <p>Due to unfortunate circumstances Windows binaries for PECL extensions will no longer be available on http://pecl4win.php.net.</p> 24 <p>Work is being done to incorporate Windows binaries for PECL extensions into <a href="http://pecl.php.net">pecl.php.net</a> and will hopefully be ready early 2009</p> 25 <p>If anyone is interested in the project please join the <a href="mailto:internals-win@lists.php.net">PHP Windows Development</a> <a href="http://php.net/mailinglist">mailinglist</a>.</p> 26 27 </div> 28 29 </div> 30</div> 31 32<hr> 33<div class="newsItem hentry"> 34 <div class="newsImage"></div> 35 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-12-08-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-08-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 5.2.8 Released!</a></h1> 36 <div class="entry-content description"> 37 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-12-08T15:58:43-05:00">[08-Dec-2008]</abbr> 38 39 <div> 40 <p>The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.8. This release addresses a regression introduced by 5.2.7 in regard to the magic_quotes functionality, which was broken by an incorrect fix to the filter extension. All users who have upgraded to 5.2.7 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Alternatively you can apply a work-around for the bug by changing "filter.default_flags=0" in php.ini.</p> 41 </div> 42 43 </div> 44</div> 45 46<hr> 47<div class="newsItem hentry"> 48 <div class="newsImage"></div> 49 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-12-07-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-07-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 5.2.7 has been removed from distribution</a></h1> 50 51 <div class="entry-content description"> 52 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-12-07T22:01:14-08:00">[07-Dec-2008]</abbr> 53 <div> 54 <p> 55 Due to a security bug found in the PHP 5.2.7 release, it has been removed from distribution. 56 The bug affects configurations where <a href="/magic_quotes">magic_quotes_gpc</a> is enabled, 57 because it remains off even when set to on. 58 In the meantime, use PHP <a href="/releases/5_2_6.php">5.2.6</a> until PHP 5.2.8 is later released. 59 </p> 60 61 </div> 62 63 </div> 64</div> 65 66<hr> 67<div class="newsItem hentry"> 68 <div class="newsImage"></div> 69 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-12-04-3" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-04-3" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 5.2.7 Released</a></h1> 70 <div class="entry-content description"> 71 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-12-04T20:44:17-05:00">[04-Dec-2008]</abbr> 72 73 <div> 74 <p> 75 The PHP development team would like to 76 announce the immediate availability of <a href="/downloads.php#v5">PHP 5.2.7</a>. 77 This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 78 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are 79 encouraged to upgrade to this release. 80 </p> 81 <p> 82 <b>Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.7:</b> 83 </p> 84 <ul> 85 86 <li> 87 Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371) 88 </li> 89 <li> 90 Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. 91 </li> 92 <li> 93 Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. 94 </li> 95 <li> 96 97 Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658). 98 </li> 99 <li> 100 Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659). 101 </li> 102 <li> 103 Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666. 104 </li> 105 <li> 106 Fixed bug #45151 (Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots)).(Fixes CVE-2008-3660) 107 </li> 108 109 <li> 110 Fixed bug #42862 (IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow). (Fixes CVE-2008-2829)</li> 111 <li> 112 Fixed extraction of zip files and directories with crafted entries, reported by Stefan Esser. 113 </li> 114 </ul> 115 <p> 116 Further details about the PHP 5.2.7 release can be found in the <a href="/releases/5_2_7.php">release announcement for 5.2.7</a>, the full list of changes is available in the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7">ChangeLog for PHP 5</a>. 117 </p> 118 119 <br> 120 <p> 121 <strong>Update (December 6th):</strong> 122 Added missing zip security fix 123 </p> 124 </div> 125 126 </div> 127</div> 128 129<hr> 130 131<div class="newsItem hentry"> 132 <div class="newsImage"></div> 133 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-12-04-2" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-04-2" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 5.3 alpha3 released!</a></h1> 134 <div class="entry-content description"> 135 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-12-04T17:00:32+01:00">[04-Dec-2008]</abbr> 136 <div> 137 <p>The PHP development team is proud to announce the <a href="http://qa.php.net/">third alpha release</a> 138 139 of the upcoming PHP 5.3.0 minor version update of PHP. 140 Several new features have already been documented in the <a href="http://php.net/docs.php">official documentation</a>, 141 others are listed on the <a href="http://wiki.php.net/doc/scratchpad/upgrade/53">wiki</a> 142 in preparation of getting documented. It is imperative that more people 143 join the effort to complete the documentation for PHP 5.3.0. 144 Please also review the <a href="http://php.net/php5news">NEWS</a> file.</p> 145 <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> 146 <p>The purpose of this alpha release is to encourage users to not only actively 147 participate in identifying bugs, but also in ensuring that all new features or 148 necessary backwards compatibility breaks are noted in the documentation. Please 149 report any findings to the <a href="mailto:php-qa@lists.php.net">QA mailinglist</a> 150 151 or the <a href="http://bugs.php.net">bug tracker</a>.</p> 152 <p>There have been a great number of other additions and improvements since the last alpha, 153 but here is a short overview of the most important changes:</p> 154 <ul> 155 <li><a href="http://php.net/language.namespaces">Namespaces</a> (documentation has been updated to the current state)</li> 156 <li> 157 158 <a href="http://wiki.php.net/rfc/rounding">Rounding behavior</a> 159 </li> 160 <li>ext/msql has been removed, while ext/ereg will now raise E_DEPRECATED notices</li> 161 <li>ext/mhash has been replaced by ext/hash but full BC is maintained</li> 162 <li>PHP now uses cc as the default compiler, instead of gcc</li> 163 <li>A number of bug fixes to ext/pdo, ext/soap, the stream layer among others</li> 164 165 </ul> 166 <p>Several under the hood changes also require in depth testing with existing 167 applications to ensure that any backwards compatibility breaks are minimized.</p> 168 <p>The current <a href="http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53">release plan</a> expects 169 a stable release sometime around the end of Q1 2009.</p> 170 </div> 171 172 </div> 173</div> 174 175<hr> 176<div class="newsItem hentry"> 177 <div class="newsImage"></div> 178 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-12-04-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-04-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP Advent 2008</a></h1> 179 <div class="entry-content description"> 180 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-12-04T09:30:00-05:00">[04-Dec-2008]</abbr> 181 <div> 182 <p>December is a busy and exciting time of the year. 183 <a href="http://phpadvent.org/">PHP Advent</a> is an attempt to capture 184 and share doses of wisdom from a few of the people in the PHP community 185 who have been kind enough to share their thoughts and tips. Please join 186 us on our daily journey by <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/phpadvent">subscribing to our feed</a> 187 188 or <a href="http://twitter.com/phpadvent">following us on Twitter</a>. 189 Happy holidays.</p> 190 </div> 191 192 </div> 193</div> 194 195<hr> 196<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 197 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://www.afup.org/", "afup2008.png", "Forum AFUP Paris 2008"); ?></div> 198 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-11-15-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-11-15-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Forum PHP Paris 2008</a></h1> 199 200 <div class="entry-content description"> 201 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-11-15T21:56:55-07:00">[15-Nov-2008]</abbr> 202 <p>The 2008 edition of the French PHP users welcomes once again unique 203 speakers : Zak Greant, from Foo Associates, Laura Thompson from Mozilla, and 204 Lukas Smith, Core PHP Developper. 205 </p> 206 <p> 207 Set in Paris, on December 8th and 9th 2008, by the 208 Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP (French PHP User Group, 209 <a href="http://www.afup.org/" title="AFUP">http://www.afup.org/</a>), 210 the Forum PHP 2008 focuses on the themas of Professional Web Services, 211 and PHP large scale projects. 212 </p> 213 214 </div> 215 216</div> 217 218<hr> 219<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 220 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://conference.phpnw.org.uk", "phpnw08_logo.jpg", "PHPNW08 logo"); ?></div> 221 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-11-04-2" href="http://conference.phpnw.org.uk" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHPNW08 - November 22nd - Manchester, UK</a></h1> 222 <div class="entry-content description"> 223 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-11-04T12:55:09+00:00">[04-Nov-2008]</abbr> 224 <div> 225 <p> 226 227 PHP North West are pleased to announce their first conference, PHPNW08, to be held at <span class="location">Manchester Central (formerly GMex)</span>. 228 </p> 229 <p> 230 On <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-11-22">Saturday 22nd November 2008</abbr>, 231 PHPNW08 will bring together the North-of-England PHP community for a 232 one-day event of exceptional presentations, challenging workshops, 233 sensational debates and networking opportunities. The conference will 234 host a mixture of well-known regulars on the speakers' circuit and local 235 talent, and aims to highlight current best practices and emerging topics 236 within the sphere of PHP and web development. See our 237 <a href="http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw08/?page_id=118" class="url">conference schedule</a> for details. 238 </p> 239 <p> 240 241 We would love developers, designers, managers or anyone else with an 242 interest in the PHP programming language to join us for what promises to 243 be an awesome event at a very reasonable rate: 244 </p> 245 <ul> 246 <li>Standard tickets: £60.00</li> 247 <li>Early bird (until 8th November): £50.00</li> 248 <li>Concessionary tickets: £35.00</li> 249 </ul> 250 <p> 251 252 Tickets for PHPNW08 are on sale now at 253 <a href="http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw08/register/" class="url">http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw08/register/</a>. 254 </p> 255 </div> 256 257 </div> 258</div> 259 260<hr> 261<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 262 <div class="newsImage"></div> 263 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-09-16-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-09-16-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP Quebec 2009</a></h1> 264 <div class="entry-content description"> 265 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-09-16T10:12:12+02:00">[16-Sep-2008]</abbr> 266 <p> 267 268 PHP Québec is pleased to announce the seventh edition of the PHP Québec Conference. 269 The Conference will take place in <span class="location">Montréal, Québec, 270 Canada</span> between <abbr title="2009-03-04T00:00:00+01:00" class="dtstart">March 4</abbr> 271 and <abbr title="2009-03-06T00:00:00+01:00" class="dtend">6th 2009</abbr>. 272 We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with Canadian and United States PHP professionals. 273 </p> 274 <p> 275 The Conference features technical talks and Labs dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services,databases, etc., project management where speakers and visitor swill try to find solutions to actual business problems. 276 </p> 277 278 <p> 279 Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French. For more information, visit the website: 280 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/en" title="2009 PHP QuebecConference">http://conf.phpquebec.com</a> 281</p> 282 283 </div> 284</div> 285 286<hr> 287<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 288 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://phpconference.es/", "PHPBarcelonaConference003.png", "Barcelona PHP Conference"); ?></div> 289 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-09-10-1" href="http://phpconference.es/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Barcelona PHP Conference 2008</a></h1> 290 291 <div class="entry-content description"> 292 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-09-10T15:08:49+02:00">[10-Sep-2008]</abbr> 293 <div> 294 <p><a href="http://phpbarcelona.org/">The PHP Barcelona User Group</a> 295 is proud to announce its first 296 <a href="http://phpconference.es/">international PHP Conference</a>. 297 It will be celebrated on <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-09-27">Saturday, 298 September 27th</abbr>, at <span class="location">Barcelona</span>. 299 </p> 300 301 <p> 302 The PHP Barcelona User Group (aka PHPBarcelona) is a non-profit 303 organization aimed at spreading and interchanging knowledge among 304 the PHP developers community of Barcelona and surroundings, and 305 also evangelizing the PHP technology on universities and 306 enterprises as well. 307 </p> 308 <p> 309 This year they had celebrated another events but this one is 310 the first which will be developed completely in English. The 311 highlights of this conference will be the talks of internationally 312 recognized PHP developers, like Derick Rethans and Scott MacVicar 313 among others. 314 </p> 315 <p> 316 For more information about Barcelona PHP Conference 2008 and to 317 register, please visit 318 <a href="http://phpconference.es/" class="url">http://phpconference.es</a> 319 </p> 320 321 </div> 322 323 </div> 324</div> 325 326<hr> 327<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 328 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://www.phpconference.com/", "icp08.jpg", "International PHP Conference 2008"); ?></div> 329 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-09-08-1" href="http://www.phpconference.com/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">International PHP Conference 2008 October 27-31st Mainz, Germany</a></h1> 330 <div class="entry-content description"> 331 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-09-08T12:31:08+02:00">[08-Sep-2008]</abbr> 332 333 <div> 334 <h3>The premiere PHP Conference – Celebrate the 14th event with us!</h3> 335 <p> 336 Today the ICP is <em>the</em> reference whenever substructures of existing technologies 337 should be extended or the basis for new developments should be created. Thus, you 338 do not only profit from the concentrated know-how of worldwide acknowledged, 339 international PHP-experts but also from the professional transfer of knowledge 340 between industry and development. 341 </p> 342 <p> 343 With its mixture of topics the International PHP Conference provides an ideal 344 resource for all professionals and their successful daily routine within the whole 345 PHP-spectrum. Insights into current Web 2.0 technologies, Security, Best Practices 346 for tools and components, Enterprise know-how, databases, architectures and more 347 are provided at the ICP 2008. 348 </p> 349 350 <p> 351 The International PHP Conference celebrates it's 14th Edition. Celebrate with us, 352 and profit from our Celebrate 14teen offers! 353 </p> 354 <ul> 355 <li>199 € / Special Price</li> 356 <li>149 €* / Special Price for Freelancer</li> 357 <li>99 €** / Student Price</li> 358 </ul> 359 360 <p>Offer is valid till 30th September!</p> 361 <p> 362 <a href="http://phpconference.com/">Register now!</a> 363 </p> 364 <p> 365 <small>* Confirmation with your company's letter head</small> 366 <br> 367 368 <small>** With Student ID. Limited seating available</small> 369 </p> 370 </div> 371 372 </div> 373</div> 374 375<hr> 376<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 377 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://phpworks.mtacon.com/", "phppyworks.png", "php|works / PyWorks 2008: Chicago"); ?></div> 378 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-09-03-1" href="http://phpworks.mtacon.com/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">php|works & PyWorks 2008 - Atlanta</a></h1> 379 380 <div class="entry-content description"> 381 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-09-03T11:49:33+02:00">[03-Sep-2008]</abbr> 382 <div> 383 <a href="http://tek.phparch.com/" class="url">php|tek 2008: Chicago</a> 384 <p> 385 The publishers of <a href="http://www.phparch.com/">php|architect Magazine</a> and <a href="http://pythonmagazine.com">Python Magazine</a> are proud to announce the 386 joint <a href="http://phpworks.mtacon.com">php|works</a> / <a href="http://pyworks.mtacon.com">PyWorks 2008</a> conferences in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 387 </p> 388 389 <p> 390 php|works and PyWorks feature over 65 talks, 10 tutorials and 5 tracks on topics ranging from web development to database optimization with PHP and Python over the course of two days, 391 social events in the evening and plenty of networking opportunities with industry peers. 392 </p> 393 <p> 394 This year, the PHP Community (and the Python Community, too!) meets <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-11-12">November 12</abbr>-<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-11-14">14</abbr> for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. 395 </p> 396 <p> 397 398 Join us to hear <a href="http://phpworks.mtacon.com/c/schedule">top speakers</a> such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Mike Potter (Adobe) and more. 399 </p> 400 </div> 401 402 </div> 403</div> 404 405<hr> 406<div class="newsItem hentry"> 407 <div class="newsImage"></div> 408 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-08-07-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-07-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 4.4.9 released!</a></h1> 409 410 <div class="entry-content description"> 411 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-08-07T20:12:42+02:00">[07-Aug-2008]</abbr> 412 <div> 413 <p>The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate 414 availability of PHP 4.4.9. It continues to improve the security and the 415 stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to 416 upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the 417 outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the 418 <b>last</b> PHP 4.4 release.</p> 419 <p> 420 <b>Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.9:</b> 421 422 </p> 423 <ul> 424 <li>Updated PCRE to version 7.7.</li> 425 <li>Fixed overflow in memnstr().</li> 426 <li>Fixed crash in imageloadfont when an invalid font is given.</li> 427 <li>Fixed open_basedir handling issue in the curl extension.</li> 428 <li>Fixed mbstring.func_overload set in .htaccess becomes global.</li> 429 430 </ul> 431 <p> For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.9, see the <a href="/ChangeLog-4.php#4.4.9">ChangeLog</a>.</p> 432 </div> 433 434 </div> 435</div> 436 437<hr> 438<div class="newsItem hentry"> 439 <div class="newsImage"></div> 440 441 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-08-01-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-01-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 5.3 alpha1 released!</a></h1> 442 <div class="entry-content description"> 443 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-08-01T08:50:37+02:00">[01-Aug-2008]</abbr> 444 <div> 445 <p>The PHP development team is proud to announce the <a href="http://qa.php.net/">first alpha release</a> of the upcoming minor version update of PHP. <a href="http://windows.php.net/download/">Windows binaries</a> will be available starting with alpha2 (intermediate snapshots available at <a href="http://snaps.php.net">snaps.php.net</a>). The new version PHP 5.3 is expected to improve stability and performance as well as add new language syntax and extensions. Several new features have already been documented in the <a href="http://php.net/docs.php">official documentation</a>, others are listed on the <a href="http://wiki.php.net/doc/scratchpad/upgrade/53">wiki</a> in preparation of getting documented. Please also review the <a href="http://php.net/php5news">NEWS</a> file.</p> 446 447 <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> 448 <p>The purpose of this alpha release is to encourage users to not only actively 449 participate in identifying bugs, but also in ensuring that all new features or 450 necessary backwards compatibility breaks are noted in the documentation. Please 451 report any findings to the <a href="mailto:php-qa@lists.php.net">QA mailinglist</a> 452 or the <a href="http://bugs.php.net">bug tracker</a>.</p> 453 <p>There have been a great number of other additions and improvements, but here is a short overview of the most important changes:</p> 454 <ul> 455 456 <li><a href="http://php.net/language.namespaces">Namespaces</a> (documentation maybe out dated)</li> 457 <li><a href="http://php.net/oop5.late-static-bindings">Late static binding</a> and <a href="http://php.net/language.oop5.overloading">__callStatic</a></li> 458 <li> 459 <a href="http://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures">Lambda functions and closures</a> 460 </li> 461 462 <li>Addition of the <a href="http://php.net/book.intl">intl</a>, <a href="http://php.net/book.phar">phar</a> (phar is scheduled for some more work a head of alpha2), <a href="http://php.net/book.fileinfo">fileinfo </a> and <a href="http://php.net/book.sqlite3">sqlite3</a> extensions</li> 463 <li>Optional cyclic garbage collection</li> 464 465 <li>Optional support for the <a href="http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/PHP_MYSQLND">MySQLnd</a> replacement driver for libmysql</li> 466 <li>Windows older than Windows 2000 (Windows 98, NT4, etc.) are not supported anymore (<a href="http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/releasenotes">details</a>)</li> 467 <li>New syntax features like <a href="http://php.net/language.types.string#language.types.string.syntax.nowdoc">NOWDOC</a>, limited GOTO, ternary short cut "?:"</li> 468 </ul> 469 470 <p>Several under the hood changes also require in depth testing with existing applications to ensure that any backwards compatibility breaks are minimized. This is especially important for users that require the undocumented Zend engine multibyte support.</p> 471 <p>The current <a href="http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53">release plan</a> states that there will be alpha/beta/RC releases in 2-3 week intervals with an expected stable release of PHP 5.3 between mid September and mid October of 2008.</p> 472 </div> 473 474 </div> 475</div> 476 477<hr> 478<div class="newsItem hentry"> 479 480 <div class="newsImage"></div> 481 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-07-30-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-07-30-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">TestFest 2008 wrap-up</a></h1> 482 <div class="entry-content description"> 483 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-07-30T00:23:14+01:00">[30-Jul-2008]</abbr> 484 <div> 485 <p>Overall 158 tests have been submitted as part of <a href="http://qa.php.net/testfest.php">TestFest 2008</a> since the launch of the <a href="http://testfest.php.net">TestFest submission site</a> by 30 different people from people all over the world. Actually this is not counting the various submissions by existing core developers, who also took this opportunity to add some more tests. This has actually increased total <a href="http://gcov.php.net/" target="_new">test coverage</a> for ext/reflection, ext/dom and ext/exif by about 10% each. While the organization of the TestFest was a bit adhoc, there were numerous TestFest events in local user groups. So the number of people exposed to the PHP test framework is much greater. Hopefully this will lead to more people submitting bug reports with an accompanying <a href="http://qa.php.net/write-test.php">phpt</a> test file!</p> 486 487 <p>Our top submitter Felix De Vliegher has actually committed his last submissions himself since, based on the high quality of his submissions, he has been granted commit rights to the PHP repository. We have not heard back from all participants, but we encourage everybody to <a href="http://www.deshong.net/?p=76" target="_new">blog</a> about their experience and provide us with feedback on how to improve future events.</p> 488 <p>Now better late than never, here are the 10 winners of the promised <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/elephpants/pool/">elePHPant</a> raffle sponsored by <a href="http://www.nexen.net">Nexen</a>. Note that Felix asked me not to include him in the raffle, since he is already herding quite a number of elePHPants at home.</p> 489 <ul> 490 <li>Eric Stewart</li> 491 492 <li>Håvard Eide</li> 493 <li>Marc Veldman</li> 494 <li>Michelangelo van Dam</li> 495 <li>Rein Velt</li> 496 <li>Rob Young</li> 497 <li>Sami Greenbury</li> 498 499 <li>Sebastian Deutsch</li> 500 <li>Sebastian Schürmann</li> 501 <li>Stefan Koopmanschap</li> 502 </ul> 503 <p>We will provide Nexen with the email addresses of the winners, so that they can arrange to get the elePHPants shipped. Also for those people wondering, you can continue to submit tests on the <a href="http://testfest.php.net">TestFest submission site</a>. A bit thank you to all participants and TestFest organizers! Without the countless people that helped organize local events, implement the infrastructure and submissions reviewers, the TestFest would have obviously not worked out as well as it has. We will surely do similar events in the future based on the big success of TestFest 2008.</p> 504 </div> 505 506 507 </div> 508</div> 509 510<hr> 511<div class="newsItem hentry"> 512 <div class="newsImage"></div> 513 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-07-29-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-07-29-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Manual restructure and license change</a></h1> 514 <div class="entry-content description"> 515 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-07-29T23:50:37+02:00">[29-Jul-2008]</abbr> 516 <div> 517 518 <p> 519 A few weeks ago the <a href="/manual">manual</a> was restructured 520 to improve navigation and make room for 521 <a href="/pdo.prepared-statements">per-extension chapters</a> 522 and <a href="/haru.examples">usage examples</a> along with 523 <a href="/class.xmlreader">improved documentation</a> for 524 <a href="/oop5/">object oriented</a> extensions. 525 </p> 526 527 <p> 528 The most noticable changes are the <a href="/funcref">function reference</a>, 529 <a href="/reserved.variables">predefined variables</a>, 530 <a href="/context">context options and parameters</a> and 531 <a href="/reserved.exceptions">predefined exceptions</a> manual pages, 532 for which <a href="/contact">we would really appreciate feedback</a> on. 533 </p> 534 535 <p> 536 The upcomming PHP5.3 release introduces 537 <a href="http://wiki.php.net/doc/scratchpad/upgrade/53">several major features</a> 538 such as <a href="/namespaces">namespaces</a>, closures, 539 <a href="/lsb">late static bindings</a>, <a href="/intl">internationalization functions</a>, 540 <a href="/ini.sections">INI sections</a>, and <a href="/phar">Phar</a> among others. 541 We would really appreciate any and all help we can get improving the documentation. 542 </p> 543 544 <p> 545 In related news, the manual was relicensed recently and is now 546 covered by the 547 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="license">CreativeCommons Attribution license</a>. 548 </p> 549 </div> 550 551 </div> 552</div> 553 554<hr> 555<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 556 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://zendcon.com/", "zlogo.gif", "ZendCon 2008"); ?></div> 557 558 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-07-13-1" href="http://zendcon.com/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">ZendCon 2008 - September 15-18 - Santa Clara, CA-US</a></h1> 559 <div class="entry-content description"> 560 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-07-13T18:23:14+02:00">[13-Jul-2008]</abbr> 561 <div> 562 <p>Join us for the largest PHP only gathering, <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-09-15T00:00:00+02:00">September 15th</abbr> - <abbr class="dtend" title="2008-09-19T00:00:00+02:00">18th</abbr>. Discuss topics such as:</p> 563 564 <ul> 565 <li>PHP in the Enterprise</li> 566 <li>Advanced PHP Programming Techniques</li> 567 <li>Scalability</li> 568 <li>PHP and RIAs</li> 569 </ul> 570 <p>Our guest keynote speaker this year is Zak Greant who will be speaking on <q>The Age of Literate Machines</q></p> 571 572 <p>For more information and to register for the biggest PHP even of the year, visit <a href="http://zendcon.com/">http://zendcon.com/</a></p> 573 </div> 574 575 </div> 576</div> 577 578<hr> 579 580<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 581 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://www.afup.org/", "elephpants.jpg", "elePHPants"); ?></div> 582 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-05-13-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-05-13-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Call for PUG, for elePHPants, 2008 generation</a></h1> 583 <div class="entry-content description"> 584 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-05-13T11:56:55-07:00">[13-May-2008]</abbr> 585 586 <div> 587 <p>The elePHPants are now ready to make their 2008 generation. 588 PHP User groups, enthusiasts and companies that are interested in 589 groups of elePHPants, shall join this year's herd.</p> 590 <p> 591ElePHPants are a great link of the community, happily promoting your favorite 592language in conferences, on work station, baby cribs and other unusual places. 593Production prices make it possible for groups to raise funds, entice membership 594or simply bring joy and PHP around. 595 </p> 596 <p> 597Pre-register your <a href="http://www.nexen.net/elephpant/2008_en.php">herd of elePHPants</a> 598online, for big and small, 599and join the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/elephpant/">world of blue elePHPants</a>. 600 </p> 601 602 </div> 603 604 </div> 605</div> 606 607<hr> 608<div class="newsItem hentry"> 609 <div class="newsImage"></div> 610 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-04-22-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-04-22-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Google Summer of Code: php.net students</a></h1> 611 <div class="entry-content description"> 612 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-04-22T20:04:48+02:00">[22-Apr-2008]</abbr> 613 614 <div> 615 <p> 616 The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the 617 <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Google Summer of Code</a>. 618 Ten students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer: 619</p> 620 <ul> 621 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=73D5F5E282F9163F" class="url">Zend LLVM Extension</a> by 622 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Joonas </span><span class="family-name">Govenius</span></span>, 623 </span> 624 625 mentored by 626 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Nuno </span><span class="family-name">Lopes</span></span></span></li> 627 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=12A8D27646C9771A" class="url">PHP Optimizer</a> by 628 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Samuel </span><span class="family-name">Graham Kelly IV</span></span>, 629 </span> 630 mentored by 631 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Derick </span><span class="family-name">Rethans</span></span></span></li> 632 633 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=3D5258783F22F62C" class="url">PhD (PHP Docbook) Project</a> by 634 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Rudy </span><span class="family-name">Nappée</span></span>, 635 </span> 636 mentored by 637 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Hannes </span><span class="family-name">Magnusson</span></span></span></li> 638 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=93F63E6C761134FB" class="url">Replace auto* with CMake</a> by 639 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Alejandro Leiva </span><span class="family-name">Rojas</span></span>, 640 </span> 641 642 mentored by 643 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Pierre A. </span><span class="family-name">Joye</span></span></span></li> 644 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=F74E5E31D92F95D0" class="url">gsoc:2008 - XDebug</a> by 645 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Chung-Yang </span><span class="family-name">Lee</span></span>, 646 </span> 647 mentored by 648 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">David </span><span class="family-name">Coallier</span></span></span></li> 649 650 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=435245F847240738" class="url">Rewrite the run-tests.php script</a> by 651 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Cesar </span><span class="family-name">Montedonico</span></span>, 652 </span> 653 mentored by 654 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Travis </span><span class="family-name">Swicegood</span></span></span></li> 655 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=837287100B93044F" class="url">PHP Bindings for Cairo</a> by 656 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Akshat </span><span class="family-name">Gupta</span></span>, 657 </span> 658 659 mentored by 660 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Anant </span><span class="family-name">Narayanan</span></span></span></li> 661 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=25AE6211DDEC86FD" class="url">Algorithm Optimizations</a> by 662 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Michal </span><span class="family-name">Dziemianko</span></span>, 663 </span> 664 mentored by 665 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Scott </span><span class="family-name">MacVicar</span></span></span></li> 666 667 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=5A442E6A7568434D" class="url">PECL, Website Improvements</a> by 668 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Barry </span><span class="family-name">Carlyon</span></span>, 669 </span> 670 mentored by 671 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Helgi Þormar </span><span class="family-name">Þorbjörnsson</span></span></span></li> 672 <li><span class="vcard"><a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/appinfo.html?csaid=AD4803BA9A70BCB3" class="url">Implement Unicode into PHP 6</a> by 673 <span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Henrique do Nascimento </span><span class="family-name">Angelo</span></span>, 674 </span> 675 676 mentored by 677 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Scott </span><span class="family-name">MacVicar</span></span></span></li> 678 </ul> 679 <p><strong>Update (<abbr class="updated" title="2008-05-11T17:48:11+02:00">May 11th</abbr>):</strong> 680 Unfortunately <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Nicholas Sloan</span></span> had to drop out of the 681 program, but he will be replaced by <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Rudy Nappée</span></span> working on the same application.</p> 682 683 </div> 684 685 </div> 686</div> 687 688<hr> 689<div class="newsItem hentry"> 690 <div class="newsImage"></div> 691 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-05-01-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-05-01-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 5.2.6 Released</a></h1> 692 <div class="entry-content description"> 693 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-05-01T19:27:58-04:00">[01-May-2008]</abbr> 694 695 <div> 696 <p>The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.</p> 697 <p> Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the <a href="/releases/5_2_6.php">release announcement for 5.2.6</a>, the full list of changes is available in the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.6">ChangeLog for PHP 5</a>.</p> 698 <p> 699 <b>Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:</b> 700 701 </p> 702 <ul> 703 <li>Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.</li> 704 <li>Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.</li> 705 <li>Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.</li> 706 <li>Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.</li> 707 <li>Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.</li> 708 709 <li>Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6</li> 710 </ul> 711 <p><strong>Update (<abbr class="updated" title="2008-05-06T09:56:38+02:00">May 6th</abbr>):</strong> The Windows installers were missing the <a href="/xsl">XSL</a> 712 and <a href="/imap">IMAP</a> extensions.</p> 713 714 <p><strong>Update (<abbr class="updated" title="2008-05-03T09:56:38+02:00">May 3rd</abbr>):</strong> The Windows archives were missing the <a href="/xsl">XSL</a> 715 and <a href="/imap">IMAP</a> extensions.</p> 716 </div> 717 718 </div> 719 720</div> 721 722<hr> 723<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 724 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://www.afup.org/", "afup2008.png", "Forum AFUP Paris 2008"); ?></div> 725 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-04-13-2" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-04-13-2" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Call for speakers for Forum PHP Paris 2008</a></h1> 726 <div class="entry-content description"> 727 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-04-13T21:56:55-07:00">[13-Apr-2008]</abbr> 728 <p>The AFUP, Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP, 729 is proud to announce the upcoming conference "Forum PHP 2008".</p> 730 731 <p>For this unique event in France, we are looking for the best French speaking experts, 732 who want to share their know-how and enthusiasm. 733 This two day conference features one technical day, with the most advanced PHP techniques 734 and a business day, with case studies and examples of successful projects. 735</p> 736 <ul><li>How to manage a PHP project (tools, methods, ...)</li><li>Insure code quality</li><li>Internet and legal issues (intellectual property, ...)</li><li>Build a business around</li><li>PHP scalibility</li><li>Connect services(web services)</li><li>Rich User Interfaces (technology choice, implementation, ...)</li></ul> 737 <h3>Date and location</h3> 738 <p> 739 740 The "Forum PHP Paris 2008" will take place in Paris on 741 <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-12-08">8th</abbr>-<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-12-10">9th december 2008</abbr> 742 </p> 743 <p>Sessions will typically be 45 minutes long followed by a 10 minutes Q&A session and up to 744 3 hours for workshops. Use the <a href="http://afup.org/pages/forumphp2008/appel-a-conferenciers.php">form on the site</a>, 745 no email proposal will be accepted.</p> 746 <p> 747 Proposals will be reviewed after the deadline has passed. Additional information may be asked where needed. Proposals will be chosen according to their layout, relevancy for a professional audience and the overall homegeneity of the forum. Every candidate will be personnally notified of the status of their proposal. The decision is final. Priority will be given to sessions in French. 748 </p> 749 750 751 </div> 752</div> 753 754<hr> 755<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 756 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://www.dcphpconference.com/", "dcphpconference.2008.png", "PHP DC conference 2008"); ?></div> 757 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="id2008-04-13-1" href="http://www.dcphpconference.com/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP DC conference 2008</a></h1> 758 <div class="entry-content description"> 759 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-04-13T12:00:00-05:00">[13-Apr-2008]</abbr> 760 <div> 761 762 <p> 763 The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a 764 featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo, 765 <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-06-02">June 2</abbr>-<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-06-05">4</abbr>, 766 2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief 767 architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of 768 the President, will be presenting on "Federal E-Government and 769 Enterprise Architecture Updates." 770 </p> 771 <p> 772 Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government 773 officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions 774 for building a better web application infrastructure. The DC PHP 775 conference will include tracks pertaining to business cases, best 776 practices, the art of PHP, PHP applications, PHP in the enterprise, 777 and Open Source. The full speaker schedule will be announced shortly. 778 </p> 779 <p> 780 781 For more information about DC PHP Conference & Expo 2008 and to register, 782 please visit <a href="http://www.dcphpconference.com/">www.dcphpconference.com</a>. 783 Early discounted registration rates affective until April 15, 2008 784 </p> 785 </div> 786 787 </div> 788</div> 789 790<hr> 791<div class="newsItem hentry"> 792 <div class="newsImage"></div> 793 794 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-03-30-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#2008-03-30-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">TestFest 2008</a></h1> 795 <div class="entry-content description"> 796 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-03-30T21:06:55+01:00">[30-Mar-2008]</abbr> 797 <div> 798 <p>The PHP-QA team would like to announce the 799 <a href="http://qa.php.net/testfest.php">TestFest</a> for the month of 800 May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the 801 <a href="http://gcov.php.net">code coverage</a> of the 802 <a href="http://qa.php.net/running-tests.php">test suite</a> for the PHP 803 language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are 804 invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come 805 together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn 806 together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends 807 with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will 808 hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net mentors.</p> 809 810 <p>All it takes is someone to organize a UG to spearhead the event and 811 to get others involved in 812 <a href="http://qa.php.net/write-test.php">writing phpt tests</a>. 813 The submissions will then be reviewed by members of php.net before 814 getting included in the official test suite. Please visit the 815 <a href="http://qa.php.net/testfest.php">TestFest homepage</a> to get 816 additional details on the TestFest on how to get involved, either as a 817 UG or by setting up the necessary infrastructure.</p> 818 </div> 819 820 </div> 821</div> 822 823<hr> 824<div class="newsItem hentry"> 825 <div class="newsImage"></div> 826 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-03-19-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#2008-03-19-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">Google Summer of Code 2008</a></h1> 827 <div class="entry-content description"> 828 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-03-19T13:53:55-04:00">[19-Mar-2008]</abbr> 829 <div> 830 <p>Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/about.html">our program</a> for this year's GSoC.</p> 831 832 <p>We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: <a href="http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008">http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008</a>. Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.</p> 833 <p>So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source passionate join us in our most enjoyable <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008">Google Summer of Code</a> projects.</p> 834 </div> 835 836 </div> 837</div> 838 839<hr> 840<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 841 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://tek.phparch.com/", "phptek_2008.png", "php|tek 2008: Chicago"); ?></div> 842 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-02-19-1" href="http://tek.phparch.com/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">php|tek 2008: Chicago</a></h1> 843 <div class="entry-content description"> 844 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-02-19T11:45:00-05:00">[19-Feb-2008]</abbr> 845 <div> 846 <a href="http://tek.phparch.com/" class="url">php|tek 2008: Chicago</a> 847 848 <p> 849The publishers of <a href="http://www.phparch.com/">php|architect Magazine</a> are proud to announce the php|tek 2008 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA. 850</p> 851 <p> 852The PHP Community meets <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-05-20">May 20</abbr>-<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-05-24">23</abbr> for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. Join us to hear <a href="http://tek.phparch.com/c/schedule">top speakers</a> such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Lucas Nelan (Facebook), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Eli White (Digg) and yes, even Terry Chay (Tagged). 853 854</p> 855 <p> 856For the past two years, php|architect's spring conference has sold out <em>weeks</em> before the start date, so if you're interested in attending, don't delay, and be sure to <a href="http://tek.phparch.com/c/p/signup">sign up</a> ASAP! 857</p> 858 </div> 859 860 </div> 861</div> 862 863<hr> 864<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 865 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://conf.phpquebec.com/en/conf2008/", "conference_php_quebec.gif", "PHP Québec conference 2008"); ?></div> 866 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-02-06-1" href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/en/conf2008/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP Québec conference 2008</a></h1> 867 <div class="entry-content description"> 868 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-02-06T19:23:51+01:00">[06-Feb-2008]</abbr> 869 <div> 870 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/">2008 PHP Quebec Conference & Job Fair</a> 871 872 <p> 873The PHP Quebec team is pleased to present the sixth edition of the <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com" class="url">PHP 874Quebec Conference</a>. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada, 875on <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-03-12">March 12</abbr> through 876<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-03-15">14</abbr>. 877</p> 878 <p> 879Join us for the PHPLabs, 2 days of technical talks, the Open Source Job 880Fair & Cocktail. Meet with well know community members such as: John 881Coggeshall, Marcus Boerger, Zak Greant, Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy and 882many more. 883</p> 884 885 <p> 886Take note that online registration ends on March 7th. For more information, 887visit the website: <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com">http://conf.phpquebec.com</a></p> 888 </div> 889 890 </div> 891</div> 892 893<hr> 894<div class="newsItem hentry vevent"> 895 <div class="newsImage"><?php news_image("http://www.phpconference.co.uk/", "phplondon2008.png", "PHP London Conference 08"); ?></div> 896 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-01-10-1" href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">phplondon conference 2008</a></h1> 897 898 <div class="entry-content description"> 899 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-01-10T16:23:20+01:00">[10-Jan-2008]</abbr> 900 <div> 901 <p><abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-02-29">February 29th</abbr> (Leap Year Day). phplondon.org announce their third 902 annual <a href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk" title="phplondon.org community conference" class="url">community conference</a> 903 to be held at Inmarsat, Old Street, London.</p> 904 <p>This year the conference will run two tracks and include speakers such as Derick Rethans, Wez Furlong, Scott MacVicar and Zoe Slattery.</p> 905 906 <p>We will also be holding an extended presentation and discussion on frameworks for PHP.</p> 907 <p>Visit our <a href=" http://www.phpconference.co.uk" title="phplondon.org community conference">conference site</a> to register. Early bird discount is available until 1st February 2008.</p> 908 </div> 909 910 </div> 911</div> 912 913<hr> 914<div class="newsItem hentry"> 915 <div class="newsImage"></div> 916 <h1 class="summary entry-title"><a id="2008-01-03-1" href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#2008-01-03-1" rel="bookmark" class="bookmark">PHP 4.4.8 Released</a></h1> 917 <div class="entry-content description"> 918 <abbr class="published newsdate" title="2008-01-03T10:13:50+01:00">[03-Jan-2008]</abbr> 919 920 <div> 921 <p> 922The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate <a href="http://www.php.net/downloads.php#v4">availability of 923PHP 4.4.8</a>. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 924branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as 925possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 926series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4 release. If necessary, 927releases to address security issues could be made until 2008-08-08. 928</p> 929 <p> 930 <b>Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.8:</b> 931 </p> 932 <ul> 933 934 <li>Improved fix for MOPB-02-2007.</li> 935 <li>Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split(). Identified by Gerhard Wagner.</li> 936 <li>Fixed integer overlow in str[c]spn().</li> 937 <li>Fixed regression in glob when open_basedir is on introduced by #41655 fix.</li> 938 <li>Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens.</li> 939 <li>Added "max_input_nesting_level" php.ini option to limit nesting level of input variables. Fix for MOPB-03-2007.</li> 940 941 <li>Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL - now not allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active.</li> 942 <li>Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378).</li> 943 </ul> 944 <p> 945 For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.8, see the <a href="http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php#4.4.8">ChangeLog</a>. 946</p> 947 </div> 948 949 950 </div> 951</div> 952 953<?php site_footer(['elephpants' => true, 'sidebar' => $SIDEBAR_DATA]); 954
