Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:8595 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96594 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Mar 2004 07:07:00 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96530 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2004 07:07:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.de-punkt.de) (62.4.81.205) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2004 07:07:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 7378 invoked by uid 508); 19 Mar 2004 07:06:59 -0000 Received: from sb@sebastian-bergmann.de by webby by uid 511 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (f-prot: 3.12. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:. Processed in 1.046439 secs); 19 Mar 2004 07:06:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wopr) (80.142.51.120) by mail.de-punkt.de with SMTP; 19 Mar 2004 07:06:58 -0000 Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by wopr (192.168.2.100) (userid 8) with Hamster-NewsToMail-Gate (Classic Hamster Version 2.0 Build 2.0.2.2) ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:05:09 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:05:08 +0100 Organization: www.sebastian-bergmann.de User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: internals@lists.php.net Sender: admin Lines: 35 X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <10796800185267362@webby> Subject: RC 1 Announcement From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann) Message-ID: Since I did not like the text of the announcement that much, I wrote the following: We are happy and proud to announce the first Release Candidate for the eagerly awaited first release, PHP 5.0.0, of PHP 5. More than two years in the making, PHP 5 is the next "major release" in the successfull history of PHP, the widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web Development. This new version of PHP features both an improved object model and new language constructs that help developers to apply the paradigm of object-oriented programming to their projects. Another cornerstone of this new version of PHP is the overhauled support for XML technologies like the SimpleXML interface to XML documents, the Document Object Model (DOM Level 3), the Simple API for XML (SAX 2), XSL Transformations (XSLT 1.0), the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for the consumption and development of Web Services. PHP 5 includes an improved extension (MySQLi) for the development of applications that leverage features offered by newer versions of MySQL (MySQL 4.1 and MySQL 5.0, for instance). This includes support for prepared statements and load-balancing and replication management. PHP 5 bundles with SQLite an embeddable SQL database engine and thus features SQL database access without the need to run a separate RDBMS process, like MySQL or PostgreSQL, for instance. This Release Candidate of PHP 5 is considered feature-complete and stable and intended for wide-spread testing. It is, however, not yet recommended for mission-critical use. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5: http://professionelle-softwareentwicklung-mit-php5.de/