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The PHP development team would like to announce the 8th
release candidate of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy
(deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!
.

This is the 8th release candidate. The release candidate phase is
intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new
features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The 7th and 8th release candidates focus on fixing critical bugs and
security vulnerabilities, including:

• A buffer overflow in htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities()
  (bug #60965).
• Improving the max_input_vars configuration directive to check nested
  variables.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be
found in the
NEWS
file.

We've received a lot of feedback that has helped to improve the
upcoming release of PHP 5.4.0. Please continue to help us to identify
bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave
as expected by taking the time to test this release candidate against
your code base and reporting any problems that you encounter to
the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

The next release candidate will be released on
March 1.

Wanting to share your experiences with a larger PHP community? Please submit your name and topic ideas
(even if you are only suggesting topics and not wishing to actually present them) – each topic requires
a separate submission, submit as many as you like:

http://speakers.northeastphp.org

We hope to have topics and hands-on workshops in four tracks:

• Core PHP topics (Intermediate to Advanced levels)
• Web development related topics
• Training track (workshop style)
• UX related topics

This event is co-organized by 3 User Groups in the Northeast of North America,
namely: Atlantic Canada,
Vermont and Area, and Boston.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.10. This release delivers a critical security
fix.

Security Fixes in PHP 5.3.10:

• Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan
  Esser, CVE-2012-0830.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.10.

For source downloads please visit
our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found
on windows.php.net/download/.

The PHP development team announces the 6th
release candidate of PHP 5.4.
PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy
(deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 6th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as
a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should
be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The 6th release candidate focused on improving traits. Please test
them carefully and help us to identify bugs in
order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave
as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate
against your code base and report any problems that you encounter
to the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be
found at NEWS

The next candidate will be released on Feb 2.

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tech communities in one place.

• find working solutions for your day to day challenges;
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• 160 presentations focusing on core competencies improvement;

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Also check out our two training days
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conference.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the
stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of
which are security related.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

• Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
• Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif
  header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

• Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to
  is_a and is_subclass_of).
• Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
• Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.9, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit
our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found
on windows.php.net/download/.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.9.