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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:58:13 -0700
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Subject: PHP 5.1
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

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