PHP 5.6.

0alpha2 released
13-Feb-2014 The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0alpha2. This release adds new features and fixes bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.6.0alpha2 comes with a number of new features, including:

Peer certificates are now verified by default when connecting to SSL/TLS servers An exponentiation operator has been added: ** Output encoding handling has been simplified by using default_charset as the default character encoding

For more information about the new features you can check out the work-inprogress documentation or you can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.6.0alpha2 please visit the download page. Windows binaries can be found onwindows.php.net/qa/. Our third alpha should show up on the 27th of February. Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 5.4.25 Released!

06-Feb-2014 The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.25. 5 bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. For source downloads of PHP 5.4.25 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found onwindows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 5.5.9 is ready for download

05-Feb-2014

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.9. This release fixes several bugs against PHP 5.5.8. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.9 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries are located onwindows.php.net/download/. The list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog.

MidwestPHP 2014
05-Feb-2014 MidwestPHP is back in Minneapolis again for its second year, March 15th-16th, boasting 2 days filled with sessions about Zend Framework 2, PHPUnit, RabbitMQ, Vagrant, Application development, Security, and more. And if you're new to PHP, there's something for you too- php|architect will be hosting a training day to cover the basics of PHP on the 14th. Don't miss out on 2 great days of sessions, fantastic Minnesota food, a great chance for networking, and of course the world famous Minnesota Niceness everyone is talking about. Register for your spot at MidwestPHP today!

CFP: Dutch PHP Conference 2014

05-Feb-2014 We're back! And we are glad to announce that well be organizing the 8th edition of the Dutch PHP Conference, which will be held in Amsterdam from 26th to 28th June 2014. Thursday 26th will be the tutorial day and June 27th and 28th will be the main conference days.

Speakers, the call for papers is now open! Were looking for high -quality, technical sessions from speakers who can cover advanced topics and keep our demanding audience inspired. The call for papers is open until February 16th. You can send in as many proposals as you like, so start submitting your talks. Were very excited to see what you can come up with, and were looking forward to reading all the different proposals.

php[tek] 2014 : Schedule Announced

05-Feb-2014 The conference schedule has now been posted for php[tek] 2014 The premier professional PHP conference from the team at php[architect]. Taking place from May 19-23rd in Chicago, IL, USA, the conference will consist of 4 parallel tracks of sessions, a tutorial day, an introduction to PHP day of training, and more. New to php[tek] this year is the Open Spaces room, where we hope to encourage all sorts of great discussions to take place by our attendees, and larger breaks between sessions as well to make sure that the hallway-track is given as much importance as the sessions themselves. Our Early Bird Sale is still currently ongoing, but expires on February 15th. So make sure to register soon in order to save $200 off the total price!

PHP 5.6.0alpha1 released

23-Jan-2014 The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0alpha1. This release marks the beginning of the PHP 5.6.0 release cycle. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug