The final release candidate 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. I anticipate this RC will go smoothly and will be followed by a final within 2-3 weeks. 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.

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 ;-).

I spotted Edin's blog post about PHP 4.4.6 now being linked against MySQL 5.0.36 on Windows and decided to see what is new in that release in comparison to the 5.0.33 I am currently running. A quick visit to the MySQL's downloads page revealed a distinct absence of said release however. There are however release notes about MySQL 5.0.37, which lists some compelling fixes. Unfortunately, this release is nowhere to be found as well, even though the release notes claim it was released on 27 February 2007. A simple question comes to mind, WTF?

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