PHP 5.1

Hey, There have been a lot of questions and discussion regarding status of PHP 5.1. In the past few weeks, many have been fixing lots of bugs and PDO seems to have reached a pretty stable state. In parallel, a lot of work has been done offline by Andrei, Dmitry and others, to enable Unicode support in PHP and the Zend Engine. I believe it is time now to move 5.1 forward at a much faster pace. I'd like to roll a beta of it towards the end of next week such as Thursday (giving a chance for some last minute fixes), and then hopefully RC within a week or two. Once we RC PHP 5.1, we should branch it off to PHP_5_1 and make HEAD the Unicode development stream (merging Unicode changes into HEAD). Hopefully, by going at this pace, we can have a pretty decent Unicode version of PHP out there within a few months; and have PDO out there almost immediately. So I envision: End of June - PHP 5.1. Main feature PDO, Improved ZEII and other improvements. Q3.2005 - Beta of PHP 5.5/6.0 featuring Unicode support. Thanks, Andi