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 PHP 4.0                                                                    NEWS
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+?? ??? 2000, Version 4.0 Release
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 27 March 2000, Version 4.0 Release Candidate 1
 - Fixed a data corruption bug in mysql_result(), if used in table.fieldname
   mode (Zeev)