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Subject: PHP 5.0.0 Released!
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

The PHP development team is proud to announce the official release of PHP 5.

Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
- The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
- XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now 
focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
- A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as 
PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
- A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
- A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and 
later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition 
to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new 
features, such as prepared statements.
- SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please 
visit their website (http://www.sqlite.org/).
- Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access 
low-level socket operations on streams.
- And lots more...

Enjoy!

PHP Development Team