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We hope to have topics and hands-on workshops in four tracks:

• Core PHP topics (Intermediate to Advanced levels)
• Web development related topics
• Training track (workshop style)
• UX related topics

This event is co-organized by 3 User Groups in the Northeast of North America, namely: Atlantic Canada, Vermont and Area, and Boston.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.10. This release delivers a critical security fix.

Security Fixes in PHP 5.3.10:

• Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser, CVE-2012-0830.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.10.

For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The PHP development team announces the 6th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 6th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The 6th release candidate focused on improving traits. Please test them carefully and help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS

The next candidate will be released on Feb 2.

ConFoo 2012 in Montreal, Canada on Feb 29 - Mar 02

ConFoo is the unique web conference in Canada gathering different tech communities in one place.

• find working solutions for your day to day challenges;
• discover new tools that increase your productivity;
• network with people from some of the world’s biggest companies;
• 160 presentations focusing on core competencies improvement;

Don't miss this great opportunity and register today! Also check out our two training days around PHP, HTML5, Symfony2 and security topics right before the conference.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

• Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
• Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

• Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
• Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
• Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.9, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.9.

The PHP development team announces the 5th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 5th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

We got a lot of feedback that helped us to improve the upcoming PHP version. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS

The next and probably last release candidate will be released in 14 days.

The PHPBenelux Conference is ready for its third edition and takes place January 27th & 28th in Antwerp (Belgium).

We're very proud to have a great lineup this year and some awesome social events. All information about the conference can be found on our conference website http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2012.

There are some tickets still available, get them at http://shop.phpbenelux.eu.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The new release candidate fixed several bugs, including:

• Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions
• Fixed a segfault in the traits code

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes in this release.

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

The next release candidate will be released in 14 days.

Ibuildings is proud to organise the sixth Dutch PHP Conference on June 8 and 9, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 7. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Technology, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks.

Website: http://www.phpconference.nl/

The PHP development team is proud to announce the third release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the third release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

Changes since the previous release candidate include:

• The intl extension now supports UTS #46 mapping for IDNA
• $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] and $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] are now available in the builtin CLI server implementation.
• Several improvements and bug fixes in the Zend Engine, Core and other extensions.

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes in this release.

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the second release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the second release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

Changes since the previous release candidate include:

• Further bug fixes in the built-in web server.
• PHP-FPM is no longer marked as EXPERIMENTAL.
• Several improvements and bug fixes in the Zend Engine, Core and other extensions.

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes in this release.

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

The Italian PHP user group GrUSP is pleased to announce the 9th edition of the Italian phpDay conference, taking place on May 18th and 19th, 2012 in Verona. We will show new development traits, best-practices and success cases related to quality, revision control, test-driven development, continuous integration and so on. There are also talks about design, project management, agile and various php-related technologies.

phpDay is the first historic Italian conference dedicated solely to PHP development, technologies and management. It is aimed to IT managers, developers and innovators. Each year it renews the opportunity to link to new business partners.

The call for papers is open and will run until Feb 28th 2012. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.phpday.it

The PHP development team is proud to announce the first release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

This is the first release candidate. No new features will be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.

Changes since the last beta version include:

• Added class member access on instantiation (e.g. (new Foo)->bar()).
• Changed silent conversion of array to string to produce a notice.
• Numerous bug fixes and improvements in the Core and other extensions.

Please help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes in this release.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the second beta release of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

Please help us to identify bugs by testing new features and looking for unintended backward compatibility breaks, so we can fix the problems and fully document intended changes before PHP 5.4.0 is released. Report findings to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

This release includes numerous bug fixes and improvements since the first beta release.

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes.

The PHP Rio User Group is pleased to announce their third edition of the PHP'n Rio conference. It will be held on November 05th, 2011, at the CEFET-RJ university, Rio de Janeiro. It is a one day conference aimed on providing experienced developers and beginners a chance to learn more about PHP frameworks, web applications built in PHP, and the art of testing code.

Whether you live here or are around just enjoying the marvelous city, come and join us :) For more information, please visit http://www.phprio.org/phpnrio11 (Portuguese only).