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sterling Sun Jun 29 14:27:24 2003 EDT Modified files: /phpweb index.php Log: add announcement of php5 beta 1 Index: phpweb/index.php diff -u phpweb/index.php:1.399 phpweb/index.php:1.400 --- phpweb/index.php:1.399 Tue Jun 24 11:24:18 2003 +++ phpweb/index.php Sun Jun 29 14:27:24 2003 @@ -217,6 +217,39 @@ <?php print_link("http://www.zend.com/survey/php_net.php", make_image("news/zendtech_logo.gif", "Zend Technologies", "right") ); ?> +<h1>PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1</h1> +<p> + <font class="newsdate">[29-Jun-2003]</font> + The PHP development community is proud to announce the release of PHP 5 Beta 1. Both source packages + (<?php download_link('php-5.0.0b1.tar.bz2', 'bzip2'); ?> | <?php download_link('php-5.0.0b1.tar.gz', 'gzip'); ?>), + and a Windows <?php download_link('php-5.0.0b1-Win32.zip', 'build'); ?> are available. A list of changes + can be found in the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php">ChangeLog</a> file. +</p> +<p> +Some of the more major changes include: +</p> +<p> +<ul> + <li>PHP5 features the Zend Engine 2. For a list of Zend Engine 2 changes, please visit + <a href="/zend-engine-2.php">this</a> webpage.</li> + <li>XML support has been completely redone in PHP5, all extensions are now focused around the + excellent libxml2 library (<a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/">http://www.xmlsoft.org/</a>).</li> + <li>SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their + <a href="http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/">website</a>.</li> + <li>Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket + operations on streams.</li> + <li>Due to issues surrounding the MySQL 4.0 license, the MySQL are no longer bundled with + PHP. For more information on these licensing changes, please refer to the + <a href="http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html">MySQL Licensing Policy</a>.</li> +</ul> +</p> +<p> +<b>Note</b>: This is a beta version. It should not be used in production or even semi-production +web sites. There are known bugs in it, and in addition, some of the features may change (based on +feedback). We encourage you to download and play with it (and <a href="http://bugs.php.net/">report bugs</a> +if you find any!), but please do not replace your production installations of PHP 4 at this time. +</p> + <h1>PHP Usage Survey</h1> <p> <font class="newsdate">[24-Jun-2003]</font>