The first release candidate of PHP 5.2.2 is now available for download here: http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.2RC1.tar.bz2 (262e36555c083d103259fea165faabaf) http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.2RC1.tar.gz (04e979787670d3d5e1c3e289104b65fa) The focus of this release is twofold, number one we are continuing to stabilize the language, with over 60 bug fixes. The second goal was to improve the security of the language through an internal audit as well as by addressing previously unknown bugs identified by MOPB. As you can imagine both these goals result in a rather extensive set of changes, so testing to make sure no new bugs or regressions were introduced is critical. Therefor I would like to ask everyone, over the next few weeks to give this RC a shot with your code base to ensure there are no problems. I want to make 5.2.2 go out as soon as possible given the security improvements that it brings, with the next RC slated at just over 2 weeks from today (April 26th) and the final in early May. I...

Took a bit longer then I thought but the slides from my Security Tutorial and the Migrating to PHP 5.2.1 talk are filly up and can be found on the talks page (scroll to the bottom). I hope the people who attended the talks found them interesting and I'd like to thank all the people who took the time to leave feedback, which relayed to me amazingly fast by the organizers. A big thanks should go to the organizers as well who have done an amazing job in organizing the conference and the after-conference activities. Having a 5 star hotel for the conference was a very nice perk as well ;-).

The slides for the Migrating to 5.2.1 from the Vancouver conference are now available, they can be found here: http://ilia.ws/files/vancouver_php52.pdf

The slides from the caching talk in Vancouver are now available online and can be downloaded here: http://ilia.ws/files/vancouver_cache.pdf

It took a bit longer then originally anticipated, but PHP 5.2.1 was finally released today. Big thanks to all the people who have helped make this release possible, by reporting bugs, identifying security issues and of course helping to resolve those issues and improving the language in general. The focus of this release was making PHP 5.2 more stable and more secure. The complete shopping list of changes can be found here. The official release announcement can be found at http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_1.php, it details the major changes and all of the security fixes that have been made in this release. Given the significant number of security issues that were resolved, my recommendation is that all users of PHP, especially those running really old versions (You know who you are ;-) ) consider upgrading to this release as soon as possible. Not only will the security of your setup increase, but the stability and the performance of your PHP will improve as well. The tarballs and the binaries that c...