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Monday, June 8. 2009PHP is 14 Today
Wow, time certainly does fly.
I've started with PHP back in 1997, and A LOT has changed since then in terms of the language's capabilities, user base, and the sheer quantity of sites and applications built on it. Hopefully the next 14 years will bring as many improvements and innovations as the 1st 14 did. Happy B-Day PHP! Wednesday, May 27. 2009PHP 5.2.10RC1 Released For Testing
The first release candidate of PHP 5.2.10 was just released and is available for download at:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.10RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum: 4ef611fdcf7269b2d372dbdebc504cdb) For windows users, the all manner of binary packages can be found at: http://windows.php.net/qa/ This is a stabilization release with a whole bunch of bug fixes and no new features, so I hope it'll get released quickly. You can help make it happen by testing your code against this RC and reporting any new bugs and/or regressions you come across. Thursday, March 5. 2009Common Optimization Mistakes Slides
The slides from my PHP Quebec talk on "Common Optimization Mistakes" are now up and can be downloaded from here:
http://ilia.ws/files/phpquebec_2009.pdf I am pretty happy with the talk, which was a bit strange for me, since I get to talk about some of the downside of optimizations, rather then talking about the various specific optimizations. It looked like the audience liked the talk (I hope), so the results seems positive 
Thursday, February 26. 2009PHP 5.2.9 Released!
After a fairly timely (by PHP standards) release cycle the 5.2.9 release is finally out. As usual there are a few security fixes and a fair number (about 50 or so) general bug fixes. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release, especially so if you are using libxml 2.7 and XML extension, in which case you definitely want to upgrade since this release fixes a CDATA breakage.
Big thanks to all the people who contributed patches and fixes as well as those who took the time to file detailed bug reports that helped issue resolution. We'll see how long it will take 5.2.10 to be released The official release announcement can be found here and the full changelog is available here. Thursday, February 5. 20095.2.9RC1
The first release candidate of 5.2.9 was just released for testing and can be downloaded here:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.9RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum: 0252cc45cce713c10e2fae34aa9e406c) I was not planning on 5.2.9 before 5.3 was going to come out, but we've accumulated a fairly high number of bug fixes and a couple of issues with new version of libxml and PHP indicate we need another 5.2 release, so here we are. The release cycle should be pretty quick (I hope) and if all goes well the final will be released before the month is out. Friday, January 9. 2009Mail Logging for PHP 5.3+
I've finally got of my ass and committed my mail logging patch I've written almost 2 years ago. This functionality is predominantly aimed at shared hosters that often have a problem identifying people who abuse the mail() function to send an in-ordinate amount of spam or hacked scripts used for the some purpose.
The logging functionality is disabled by default but can be enabled on a per-directory or globally via 2 INI settings. The mail.log directive allows you to specify the file where each call to mail() will be logged. The log file will contain the path and line # of the calling script in addition to all of the headers indicated by the user. The mail.add_x_header directive will introduce a X-PHP-Originating-Script header that will contain the file name (no path) of the calling script and the uid of the script. This combination should be sufficient for the admin to locate the sending script. The patch should be backwards compatible for PHP 5.2 so those of you who cannot wait for PHP 5.3 can grab it from http://news.php.net/php.cvs/55496 Thursday, December 4. 2008PHP 5.2.7 Released
A few hours ago I've concluded a 2 month long release process of PHP 5.2.7 that been over 6 months in the making. Hurrah
As you can imagine, from the extended timeline, the bug fix list is quite long, in fact there are over 170 different bug fixes in just about all of the extensions and code paths, so hopefully 5.2.7 will be the most stable 5.2 release to date. There are also just over a half dozen security fixes, so you should take a look and see if they affect your PHP use cases.The official release announcement can be found here and for those of your bored enough a full change log is also available. As usual a big thanks to all of the developers who has spent the time investigating and fixing bugs and all the folks who reported them as well, especially the ones keep an eye on the security stuff. Friday, May 2. 2008PHP 5.2.6 Released
Yesterday, yet another version of PHP 5, 5.2.6 was released. It look a bit longer then I hoped it would, but in the end results are definitely worth it. There are over 120 different bug fixes that are designed to make PHP that much more stable. Quite a few corner case crashes have been addressed, many of which were identified by the ever increasing unit testing (big thanks to all the folks writing tests), which now offers 55.7% code coverage.
As always, there are a few security bug fixes as well, details of which you can find in the release announcement. To see the complete Change Log go here, the more brief release announcement ca be found here. Friday, March 14. 2008Introduction to PHP 5.3 Slides
The slides from my talk at PHP Quebec on the upcoming PHP 5.3 release are up and can be found here.
I hope that all the people who attended the talk had found it useful and are now convinced 5.3 is the way to go
Thursday, October 18. 20075.2.5RC1 Released for Testing
The first release candidate of 5.2.5 is now available for testing and can be downloaded from here:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.5RC1.tar.bz2(md5sum: 2f0c9ecbd50213958e9b69ec69f715ec). This RC includes a fair number of fixes since our last release and predominantly works on improving the stability of the 5.2 tree as well as including a small number of minor security fixes. I'd like to ask everyone to test this release against your code and setups, we are aiming for a quick release cycle and user feedback is critical for a successful release. Thursday, October 18. 2007Zend Conference Slides
I've finally got a bit of free time to official post the slides from my "State of PHP Security" talk from Zend Conference 2007. You can find the slides here. The session was a bit different from the usual talks I give on security, focusing on summarizing the efforts done so far this year aimed at improving PHP's own security and the things we are still working on improving.
Monday, October 1. 2007FUDforum 2.7.7 Released
The stable version of FUDforum 2.7.7RC2 is now available for download. This releases' focus has been primarily bug fixing with a fair number of small issues being resolved.
The install script can be found here and the upgrade script here. The release announcement detailing all of the major changes can be found here. Saturday, September 29. 2007Changing of the Guard
If you've been reading the internals list or the blogs of various PHP developers you probably know that the work on the new minor PHP branch, 5.3 has started now that the key feature list of the release has been established by a public vote on the internals list about a week ago. Some of those features, like namespaces, late static binding, __callStatic and several others have already made into the CVS.
As per our tradition of changing Release Masters for every minor release, a new masochist, Johannes Schlüter will be taking of the role of RM for PHP 5.3 from me. I will continue to RM 5.2.X release, which has 1-2 releases in it still and will be actively maintained up until 5.3.0 is released into the wild, something that should happen early next year.I've been release mastering PHP 5 for almost two years now, all the way back since 5.1.0 and it has been quite challenging and interesting time, and its time for new blood so to speak. I want to congratulate Johannes on his new role that will hopefully get confirmed on internals within the next few days and wish him the best of luck and ask all of the developers to cooperate with the new RM to make his task just a little bit easier. Thursday, August 30. 2007PHP 5.2.4 Released!
After a somewhat extended release cycle PHP 5.2.4 is finally out! A fairly extensive list of changes this time with over 120 bug fixes and a fair number of small security fixes and improvements. You can find the abbreviated details about the release here and the full boring details in the ChangeLog.
Thursday, August 2. 20075.2.4 RC1 Released
The first RC of 5.2.4 was just released and is now available for download here:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.4RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum: 43e28d2aa55b6c8bcd67da16e24b225a) This release have been long in the making so the changelog is a bit intimidating, so we definitely need a lot of testing for this release. I would like to ask everyone to give this RC a shot and see how it behaves with their code and hopefully not find any regressions. If you do find any, please let us know. |
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