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PHP 5.1.2 has been released. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.2 include:

• HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in ext/session and in the header() function.
• Fixed format string vulnerability in ext/mysqli.
• Fixed possible cross-site scripting problems in certain error conditions.
• Hash & XMLWriter extensions added and enabled by default.
• Upgraded OCI8 extension.
• Over 85 various bug fixes.

Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.

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PHP has released PHP 5.0.4.

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Andrei Zmievski has graciously provided his slides on the Regular Expression at the php|works Toronto 2004.

Regular Expressions: every developer's best friend and worst nightmare!

Join Andrei Zmievski, PHP developer and author of the PHP Regex (PCRE) extension, on a journey that will take you from your first steps into the world of regular expressions to complete mastery of this most useful of tools.

A must for everyone who's ever wondered what /(?<=foo)(bar)/ means.

A must read!

Andrei's Regex Clinic

As with an new release of the software, administrators (and powers-that-be) in an orgranization, tend to wait for the minor updates before integrating them into system; the adaption of PHP 5 in production envoirnment has been slow.

But with the release of PHP 5.0.2 and Zend releasing products which supports PHP 5, version 5 is now ready to take off!.

I myself have waited a bit longer, in order for the v5 to get stable. I am now going to install the version 5 and start using as the default development envoirnment.

You can also expect updates to the articles related to php, in next week or so.

PHP 5.0.2 Download | ChangeLog

Wez Furlong has published his php|works slides: PHP & COM (.ppt). And I have to concur with Harry that " .. this is the best walk through of PHP / COM .. " (I have seen)

PHP5 is out! If you are the impatient type, go download it here.

Me, I am going to wait a while before actually deploy on my servers because it seems that bug reports are coming in, like HTTP authentication is broken. For deployment on you mission critical servers, I would wait till 5.0.1 or 5.0.2.