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Subject: RC1
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

Hey,

As you must have realized Andi and I have resolved some of the key 
remaining issues for PHP 5 (and we still are).
Due to fact that some of these changes have been pretty big changes we 
suggest to turn the RC1 we wanted to release at the end of January to a 
beta 4 by the end of next week.
If everything goes smoothly after that, we think RC1 should follow two 
weeks later.
Also, Dmitry has pretty much finished his work on doing a 
major rewrite of the SOAP extension. We think it would be cool to include 
it in Beta 4 (it will be feature-frozen by that time) and then go for 
inclusion in PHP 5.

A couple of issues we'd like to decide onbefore we go out with beta 4 are:

(a) Failure return value of FETCH_RESOURCE and the default return value - 
should we change it to be FALSE?  Today it's NULL, which is inconsistent 
with most of the functions in PHP which return FALSE on failure.  The 
downside is that changing it may break scripts that check the return value 
with === or !==

(b) Default inclusion of the SOAP extension

Comments welcome,

Zeev