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<h1>News Archives</h1>

<p>
Here you can find older news items from the PHP project. You may find the
information useful.
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ph2", make_image("news/phpcon_logo.png", "PHPCon East 2003", "right") ); ?>

<h1>PHPCon East 2003 - (April 23-25, 2003)</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[01-Feb-2003]</span>
PHPCon announces PHPCon East 2003 in New York City. This conference
features two days of technical learning with speakers such as
Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski, Michael Radwin, George Schlossnagle and Jeremy Zawodny. PHPCon East also
adds a third, full day of tutorials offering practical, cogent PHP
solutions and ideas including: MySQL and PHP; Building and Consuming Web
Services with SOAP; Getting Started with PHP; High Performance PHP:
Profiling and Benchmarking; and more!</p>

<p>PHPCon East has discounts for early registration, students, non-profits,
and Tutorial/Conference packages. Early Bird Deadline is March 31st. For
more program information, <a href="http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ph2">visit
the PHPCon website</a>.</p>

<hr />

<h1>LinuxTag, Karlsruhe, July 10th - 13th</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[30-January-2003]</span>
LinuxTag e.V has once again put out a call for papers for this years conference event. Submit your ideas
and proposals <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/conferences/cfp.html">here</a>. This year's theme 
looks at discussions that promote new ideas, delivers a broad overview, introduces new users to linux, or 
discusses the legal, moral and other implications of linux and free software.</p>
 
<hr />

<?php print_link("http://phpconf.phpquebec.org/index.php", make_image("news/conference_php_quebec.gif", "Conference PHP Quebec", "right") ); ?>

<h1>Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2003 - (Montr&eacute;al, March 20&amp;21rst, 2003)</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[28-Jan-2003]</span>
The PHP Qu&eacute;bec association announces the <a
href="http://phpconf.phpquebec.com/">Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2003</a>.
The conference will take place in the &Eacute;cole Polytechnique de Montr&eacute;al, 
Qu&eacute;bec, Canada.</p>

<p>
The Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec features two days of conferences, with 
outstanding customer cases from Canada, and cutting edge technical 
sessions, hosted by international experts. An exhibitor room will
showroom professional solutions.</p>

<p>Learn more about those exciting days at 
<a href="http://phpconf.phpquebec.org/index.php">phpconf.phpquebec.com</a>.</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.phpconference.com/", make_image("news/international_conference_2003_spring.gif", "Int'l PHP Conference", "right") ); ?>

<h1>International PHP Conference 2003 - Spring Edition (Amsterdam, May 8-9)</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[13-Jan-2003]</span>
Software &amp; Support Verlag announced the <a
href="http://www.phpconference.com/">International PHP Conference 2003 - Spring
Edition</a> - in Amsterdam. The dates for this event for PHP enthusiasts from
all over the world will be May 8 and 9, 2003. The conference venue is the RAI
conference center in Amsterdam.</p>

<p>Like the International PHP Conferences in Frankfurt this conference will
offer a first class program  to an international audience of PHP enthusiasts.
We are happy to ask you to submit your <a
href="http://www.phpconference.com/content/content2.php?CatID=0&amp;NewsID=354">proposals</a>
for the session program.</p>

<p>The topics are General PHP, PHP &amp; Business, PHP &amp; Databases, PHP
Design, PHP Extensions, PHP &amp; XML and PHP-GTK.</p>

<hr />

<h1>PEAR Out of Beta!</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[11-Jan-2003]</span>
The PEAR development team is proud to announce that
<a href="http://pear.php.net/">PEAR</a> is finally out of its long
beta period. As of PHP 4.3, the PEAR installer is installed by default.
Unix support is considered stable, while Windows and Darwin are still
of beta-quality.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP Look Back 2002</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[31-Dec-2002]</span>
We are at the end of 2002, and it seemed appropriate to look back on the
development issues of the past year. So starts the first PHP Look Back! You can
find it in on the non-official personal website of one of the PHP Developers <a
href="http://www.derickrethans.nl/20021230.php">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
Happy New Year!
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.3.0 Released!</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[27-Dec-2002]</span>
The PHP developers are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
<a href="downloads.php">PHP 4.3.0</a>, the latest and greatest version of this
extremely popular and widely used scripting language.
</p>

<p>
This release contains a multitude of changes, bug fixes and improvements over
the previous one, PHP 4.2.3. It further elevates PHP's standing as a serious
contender in the general purpose scripting language arena. Please see
the full <a href="release_4_3_0.php">release announcement</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm", make_image("news/chmhelp.gif", "CHM", "right") ); ?>

<h1>New Release of the PHP Manual CHM Edition - Please Help Us</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[27-Dec-2002]</span>
The 11th sample of the CHM edition is available for download from today. The
sample hopefully fixed the missing page bugs forever, introduces a new
integration method (see documentation inside) and contains actual manual
text, mirrors list and user notes.
<?php print_link("http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm", "See the edition's page for download"); ?>.
</p>

<p>
We also would like to ask you to help out in testing our new on-the-fly
syntax highlighter, which would make the CHM significantly smaller, and
would give you more options in displaying the pages.
<?php print_link("http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm", "See the edition's page for more information"); ?>.
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/", make_image("news/mysqluc2003.png", "MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2003", "right") ); ?>

<h1>MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2003 in San Jose</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[16-Dec-2002]</span>
MySQL AB is proud to host the world's First Annual MySQL User
Conference, to be held in the heart of Silicon Valley, April 10-12,
2003. This event promises to be the biggest gathering of MySQL database
users ever in one location. Designed for both the MySQL developer and
the corporate decision maker, this is the place to learn about the
latest in MySQL technology, discover new business opportunities, take a
pulse on industry direction and commune with like minds. 
More information on <a href="http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/">the
event's website</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP news feed available</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[01-Dec-2002]</span>
The news of PHP.net is available now in RSS 1.0 format via our
new <a href="/news.rss">news.rss file</a>. You can
add this file to any news reader or portal site to get the latest
official PHP news. We strongly recommend you to cache the contents
locally on your side, as the newsfeed is updated daily. The RSS
file is available on every mirror site.
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.afup.org/", make_image("news/afup-logo.gif", "AFUP", "right") ); ?>

<h1>Forum PHP 2002 in Paris, France</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[21-Nov-2002]</span>
The French PHP User Group AFUP invites you to the "Forum PHP 2002" in
Paris, on December 9th and 10th. Designed to meet the needs of PHP aware
companies and all the French PHP developper's community alike, this
event will provided you with valuable and up-to-date information.
For more information (in French) see the
<a href="http://www.afup.org/article.php3?id_article=136">PHP Forum</a>
website.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP Magazine - International Edition</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[17-Nov-2002]</span>
Software &amp; Support Verlag GmbH is going to publish an International version
of the <a href="http://www.phpmag.de/">PHP Magazin</a>. This magazine was
initiated after growing interest for an English magazine after the German
version has been around for a few months.
</p>
<p>
PHP Magazine not only informs about the scripting language itself, but also about
related technologies such as the Apache Web Server, database technologies, XML
and other innovative internet technologies.  Different sections within the
magazine are oriented towards the specific question areas with which a web
developer is confronted in daily practice.
</p>
<p>
The first issue will be published in December and the frequency of issues is
two months. You will be able to subscribe on the <a
href="http://www.php-mag.net/">website</a> which will open shortly.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>New Monthly PHP Magazine Launched</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[15-Nov-2002]</span>
php|architect, a new monthly magazine dedicated exclusively to PHP, has
launched <a href="http://www.phparch.com/">its website</a>. php|a is published
in PDF format and is available worldwide. It covers a variety of advanced
topics ranging from day-to-day programming to the internals of PHP. A sample
article on the creation of a web-based PDF converter is also
available on the magazine website
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP Search Bars available for major browsers</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[29-Oct-2002]</span>
We added a new option to access our site's content quickly. In addition to
<a href="/urlhowto.php">URL shortcuts</a>, keyboard shortcuts and
<a href="/tips.php">browser specific magic</a> you can now use our
<a href="/sidebars.php">Search Bar</a> from the major browsers. Please help
us to test this new service, and provide feedback via
<a href="http://bugs.php.net/">the bug system</a> (categorize your bug
as a PHP.net website bug please).
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP at the LinuxWorld Expo Oct. 29-31th in Frankfurt, Germany</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[28-Oct-2002]</span>
For the first time the Open Source projects comprising the popular LAMP
platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) will be present at the 
<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de">LinuxWorld Expo</a>
with its own booth.
</p>
<p>
At the booth, which is organized by the <a href="http://www.php-ev.de">German
PHP Association</a> and the <a href="http://www.phpug.de">PHP Usergroup
Frankfurt</a>, fair visitors can experience and learn about Apache, MySQL, PHP
and related projects.
</p>
<p>
Visitors can take LAMP home, too, since there will be a CD with the necessary
software available at the booth.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>New keyboard shortcuts</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[17-Oct-2002]</span>
We introduced new keyboard shortcuts on the site today to make our pages
even more comfortable to use. You can hit Alt+S on Microsoft Windows
or Ctrl+S on Macintosh now to go right to the search box and type your
search keyword. A similar shortcut with the letter "L" is also introduced
on the manual pages to access the lookup input field. Thanks to Tommy Ipsen
for the suggestion. You can read more about keyboard shortcuts on web pages
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#access-keys">in
the HTML standard</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.2.3 Released</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[06-Sept-2002]</span>
<a href="downloads.php">PHP 4.2.3</a> has been released with a large number of bug fixes.  It is a maintenance
release, and is a recommended update for all users of PHP, and Windows users in particular. A complete
list of changes can be found in the <a href="ChangeLog-4.php">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.php-conference.de/2002/index_en.php", make_image("news/phpconf2002.gif", "PHP Conference 2002", "right")); ?>

<h1>International PHP Conference 2002 (Frankfurt, Nov 3-6)</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[05-Sept-2002]</span>
After the big success of last year's first International PHP Conference this
year's show will be even bigger and better.</p>

<p>
<a href="http://www.php-conference.de/2002/index_en.php">Come to Frankfurt</a>
and meet the most excellent speakers of the PHP community on four following days
packed with <a href="http://www.php-conference.de/2002/pw_en.php">whole day
tutorials</a> on November 3 and 4 and a great variety of sessions on November
5 and 6.</p>

<p>
The topics are PHP Applications, PHP &amp; Business, Database Topics, PHP &amp; GTK,
PHP Internals / Extensions, PHP &amp; XML, and others.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.entwickler.com/ssl/php2002/en/form_php2002.php">Early
bird registration</a> will end on 7th of October. Students and private
persons get special discounts.</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.php-con.com/", make_image("news/phpcon2002.png", "PHPCon 2002", "right") ); ?>

<h1>PHPCon 2002 (California, Oct 24-25)</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[05-Sept-2002]</span> 
<a href="http://www.php-con.com" title="PHPCon 2002">PHPCon 2002</a>, a
2-day technical conference devoted entirely to PHP, announced today the
launch of the PHPCon 2002 website, online registration, and a call for
participation.</p>

<p>
<a href="http://www.php-con.com/2002/register.php">Early Bird
registration</a> is now open for PHPCon 2002. Strong technical tracks on
Enterprise PHP, Application Development, and XML combined with speakers
from Rackspace, Yahoo!, Macromedia, and MySQL make this the conference a
must attend for anyone interested in expanding their PHP knowledge.</p>

<p>
Join PHPCon in delivering the PHP message with Birds of a Feather (BoFs)
and Works in Process (WiPs) sessions. Submit your BoF and WiP topics <a
href="http://www.php-con.com/2002/bof_form.php" title=" BoF - WiP
Submission ">online</a>.</p>

<p>
An idea who's time has come, don't miss this opportunity to attend the
only conference in the US is placing PHP front and center as the language
for solving web problems. PHPCon 2002, October 24 &amp; 25, 2002, Millbrae,
California.</p>

<hr />

<h1>Printer friendly manual pages with notes</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[03-Aug-2002]</span>
Starting from today, the manual pages are not only available in their
printer friendly versions, but also in printer friendly versions with
user notes included. Check the links at the <a href="/manual">top of
the manual pages</a> to go to printer friendly manual pages, and
change languages.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>ActiveState Awards</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[31-Jul-2002]</span> ActiveState is pleased to announce
the winners of the 2002 Active Awards, presented at the O'Reilly Open Source
Conference in San Diego, CA. The Active Awards are held annually to honor
members of the PHP, Python, Perl, Tcl, and XSLT  communities, who
<em>actively</em> contribute to open languages and display excellence in
their programming efforts. Activators' Choice Award winners were chosen by
ActiveState's development team.  Programmers' Choice Award winners were
nominated and chosen by the open source community, the nominees were:
Greg Allan; Stig Bakken; Bogomil Shopov; Philippe Thomassigny; and
Andrei Zmievski.
</p><p>
The Activators' Choice winners are Derick Rethans and Jani Taskinen.
Derick is heavily involved in developing processes for QA and Release
Management, and Jani has been one of the largest contributors to QA and
support of the Bug database.  The Programmers' Choice winner is Greg
Allen, who was the lead developer and founding member of the PostNuke
project.  More details are available at 
<?print_link('http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveAwards2002', 'http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveAwards2002')?>
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.2.2 released in response to vulnerability</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[22-Jul-2002]</span> The PHP Group today announced
the details of a serious <a href="release_4_2_2.php">vulnerability</a> in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1.
A security update, <a href="downloads.php">PHP 4.2.2</a>, fixes the issue. Everyone running
affected versions of PHP is encouraged to upgrade immediately. The new 4.2.2
release doesn't include other changes, so upgrading from 4.2.1 is safe and painless.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>New comp.lang.php newsgroup started</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[09-Jul-2002]</span> comp.lang.php was created yesterday,
after a two and a half month long process started in April by Ian Fette resulted
in a <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.lang.php&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sel
m=1025483879.39561&amp;40isc.org&amp;rnum=3">177-11 vote</a> in favor of the group.
The new group is already carried on most news servers, and should be carried
on almost all news servers in the world within the next few days.
</p>

<p>
The new group is important for a few reasons: Firstly, the old alt.* php
groups suffered from poor propagation - i.e. not all servers carried them,
and the community was split between multiple groups. This new group offers a
chance to unite the PHP-Usenet community. Secondly, most servers have longer
post-retention times for comp.* than alt.*. Finally, the creation of
comp.lang.php represents PHP's coming to acceptance and maturity. Virtually
all languages have a spot under the comp.lang.* hierarchy. Stop on by and
become a part of the community - comp.lang.php is a great place to get help
and to help others.
</p>

<hr />

<?php echo make_image("news/engine.gif", "Zend Engine 2", "right"); ?>

<h1>Alpha 2 of PHP w/ the Zend Engine 2 Now Available</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[30-Jun-2002]</span>
The second alpha release of PHP w/ Zend Engine 2 is
<?php download_link("php-4.3.0-dev-zend2-alpha2.tar.gz", "now available"); ?>.
It is based on the current PHP 4 CVS (4.3.0-dev) and includes the new 
scripting engine which greatly improves the object model, adds exception
handling and provides a much better infrastructure for the integration
of external technologies like Java or .NET.  For more details and
examples you can check out the <a href="ZEND_CHANGES.txt">CHANGES file</a>
and an <a href="http://www.php.net/source.php?url=/zend2_example.phps">example script</a>
which shows how some of these features can be used.</p>

<p><b>Note:</b>  This is an alpha version.  It should not be used in production
or even semi-production web sites.  There are known bugs in it, and in
addition, some of the features may change (based on feedback).  We
encourage you to download and play with it (and report bugs if you find any!),
but please don't expect it to replace your copy of PHP 4 at this stage.</p>

<p>Windows binary version is also available for
<?php download_link("php-4.3.0-dev-zend2-win32-alpha2.zip", "download"); ?>.</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP for NetWare (Beta) Released</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[27-May-2002]</span>
A Beta version of PHP for NetWare is available on the
<a href="http://developer.novell.com/ndk/leadedge.htm#le169">Novell
Developer Kit site</a>. This version is based on the
4.0.8 (development) version of the PHP source code.
</p>

<hr />

<?php echo make_image("news/linuxtag3.gif", "LinuxTag", "right"); ?>

<h1>LinuxTag 2002: 6 - 9th June, Karlsruhe, Germany</h1>
<span class="newsdate">[23-May-2002]</span> PHP will be attending 
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2002/deutsch/showitem.php3?item=30&amp;lang=en">LinuxTag</a> 
again this year. The combined efforts of the PHP Verein, the Apache Software Foundation and
MySQL AB,  will create a "(L)AMP" day, focusing on web development with  the 3 core technologies.
During the day there will be many <a
href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2002/deutsch/showitem.php3?item=293&amp;lang=en">interesting
workshops</a>, which are free to enter. Make time to visit the (L)AMP booth also, which will 
be hosting several <a href="http://www.phpug.de/index_ka109.php">PHP related projects</a> (text in
German).

<hr />

<h1>PHP Coding Contest</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[16-May-2002]</span>
CodeWalkers have started a new fortnightly PHP contest. Every two weeks, there
is a new problem to solve, a new script to write. The winner will receive
prizes provided by the sponsors, Zend Technologies and Sams Publishing.
You can enter the challenge by visiting <a href="http://codewalkers.com/php-contest.php">their site</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.2.1 released</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[13-May-2002]</span>
The PHP Group is happy to announce the
<?php print_link ("/downloads.php", "immediate availability"); ?> of
PHP 4.2.1, the latest version of the widely-used, general-purpose scripting language
that is especially well-suited for Web development.</p>

<p>This latest release contains several bug fixes as found in PHP 4.2.0. These include
fixes for the session, com and mbstring extensions, as well as a major upgrade of the DomXML
extension. Also a few extra checks for safe_mode were added. For more information, see the
<?php print_link ("/release_4_2_1.php", "PHP 4.2.1 release announcement"); ?>.
</p>

<hr />

<?php echo make_image("news/phpaward_100.gif", "PHP Award", "right"); ?>

<h1>PHP Award 2002</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[27-Apr-2002]</span>
The Association Fran<61>aise des Utilisateurs de PHP (AFUP) and
the German PHP Association (PHP Verein) are organizing a PHP
contest to give out the first PHP Award. The PHP Award will
be given in three categories: Open Source, Freeware and
Commercial Software, the submission deadline is July, 15th 2002.
If you are interested go to
<a href="http://www.php-award.net/">http://www.php-award.net/</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP.net: A Tourist's Guide</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[26-Apr-2002]</span>
Damien Seguy has written <a href="/sites.php">a tourist's guide</a> to the
various sites that make up the PHP.net family of sites. Did you know you can
browse a hyperlinked version of the PHP source code at <a
href="http://lxr.php.net/">lxr.php.net</a>? View the archives of all of the
mailing lists at <a href="http://news.php.net/">news.php.net</a>? See what else
you've been missing.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.2.0 released</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[22-Apr-2002]</span>
The PHP Group is happy to announce the
<?php print_link ("/downloads.php", "immediate availability"); ?> of
PHP 4.2.0, the latest version of the widely-used, general-purpose scripting language
that is especially well-suited for Web development.</p>

<p>This latest release contains over one hundred changes, bug fixes and improvements over
the previous release, PHP 4.1.2. Among the highlights are experimental support for Apache 2,
cleanups in variable handling and overhauls of various PHP components, including the
domxml, posix, sockets and iconv extensions. For more information, see the
<?php print_link ("/release_4_2_0.php", "PHP 4.2.0 release announcement"); ?>.
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm", make_image("news/chmhelp.gif", "CHM", "right") ); ?>

<h1>Fifth sample of 'PHP Manual CHM Edition'</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[20-Apr-2002]</span>
We released the fifth sample of the new CHM Edition. New in
this sample: user preferences application, a new optional
design, custom context menu support, linked functions
in examples, and of course updated content.
</p>

<p>
<?php print_link("http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm", "Try out the new CHM Edition"); ?>,
and send us your feedback to our
<?php print_link("mailto:php-doc-chm@lists.php.net", "dedicated mailing list"); ?>.
</p>

<hr />

<?php echo make_image("news/phpmag.gif", "PHP Magazin", "right"); ?>

<h1>PHP Magazin out now!</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[26-Mar-2002]</span>
The Software &amp; Support Verlag, based in Frankfurt,
Germany, has now published a magazine on PHP as a
tribute to the steadily growing German PHP community.
More information can be found at
<a href="http://www.phpmag.de/">www.phpmag.de</a>.

<hr />

<h1>New PHP.net URL Howto</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[23-Mar-2002]</span>
Ever wondered what you can type in your browsers location
field to access a php.net page? Many of you already know
<a href="http://php.net/echo">http://php.net/echo</a>.
We gathered some information about how the URLs are parsed,
and what are your possibilities. Read it in our new
<a href="urlhowto.php">URL Howto</a>.

<hr />

<?php echo make_image("news/brain.gif", "PHPDoc Brain", "right"); ?>

<h1>PHP Documentation Team Meeting</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[13-Mar-2002]</span>
The <?php print_link('http://www.php-ev.de/documents/phpdoc/protocol.html',
'notes from the PHP Documentation Team Meeting'); ?> (Stuttgart, March
8th-10th) are now available.
Pictures of the event are currently not available.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP Security Update - Windows Version</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[12-Mar-2002]</span>
Following up from the previous annoucement, PHP 4.1.2 has been released for
windows. The delayed release is due to the fix of a further security issue only
relating to the PHP for Windows version. More information on this change can be
found <?php print_link('/release_4_1_2_win32.php', 'here'); ?>. All PHP -
Windows users are encouraged to upgrade to the <?php
print_link('/downloads.php', 'latest version'); ?>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP Security Update</h1>
<p>
<span class="newsdate">[27-Feb-2002]</span>
Due to a security issue found in all versions of PHP (including 3.x and 4.x), a
new version of PHP has been released.  Details about the security issue are <a
href="http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html">available here</a>.
All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to either upgrade to <a
href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.1.2</a>, or install the patch (<a
href="/downloads.php">available for PHP 3.0.18, 4.0.6 and 4.1.0/4.1.1)</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP-GTK 0.5.0 released</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[24-Jan-2002]</span>
<?php print_link("http://gtk.php.net/", "PHP-GTK"); ?> has reached version
0.5.0, also known as <em>"monday starts on saturday"</em>. The version number
was bumped from 0.1.1 to this one to indicate that PHP-GTK is now a fairly
mature and stable extension and can be used for a variety of applications
(just look on <?php print_link("http://www.freshmeat.net/", "Freshmeat"); ?>).
</p>

<p>
Also taking this opportunity, we would like to ask if some of you would
consider helping out with PHP-GTK documentation. It would be a great way to
learn this exciting extension and also contribute to the project.
</p>

<hr />
<?php 
print_link("http://www.phpconference.de/2001/index_en.php",
    make_image("news/international_conference.gif", 
               "International PHP Conference 2001", "right")); ?>

<h1>International PHP Conference slides available</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[10-Jan-2002]</span>
You can find an overview of all slides of the sessions from the International PHP Conference 2001 on the
<a href="http://www.phpconference.de/2001/slides_en.php">conference slides page</a>. 
It is still not too late to check out some photos from the conference:
</p>

<ul>
    <li><?php print_link("http://www.photoalbum.nohn.net/PHPConference2001", "Sebastian Nohn"); ?></li>
    <li><?php print_link("http://www.bttr.org/phpconf/", "Ralf Geschke"); ?></li>
    <li><?php print_link("http://www.phpconference.de/2001/images/PHP_Konferenz/", "Conference photos"); ?></li>
</ul>
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<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.1.0 Released!</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[10-Dec-2001]</span>
<a href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.1.0</a> is a key new release in the PHP 4 family.  It includes
highly-improved performance, especially under Windows; a more security-friendly
way of accepting form variables; output compression; and much, much more.  Read the full
<a href="/release_4_1_0.php">release announcement</a>, or check out the
<a href="/ChangeLog-4.php">changelog</a>. Windows binaries are also available.
<br clear="all" />
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Windows Manual Survey Results</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[27-Nov-2001]</span>
After one week our Windows HTML Help Manual Survey is over now. We received nearly six hundred
processable forms with many wishes and comments. Thanks for you all, who contributed to making
the best help system for PHP on Windows. You can get more information about the ongoing
project, including the detailed results of the survey at 
<?php print_link("http://weblabor.hu/php/newchm.php", "the project's own page"); ?>.
<br clear="all" />
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP-GTK Documentation Update</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[18-Oct-2001]</span>
<?php print_link("http://gtk.php.net/", "PHP-GTK"); ?> 
<?php print_link("http://gtk.php.net/docs.php", "documentation"); ?> is starting
to be more filled out. The manual is now rebuilt every night and
<?php print_link("http://gtk.php.net/download-docs.php", "downloadable versions"); ?> 
of it in different formats are also available. If you have been working with
PHP-GTK and would like to contribute to the documentation effort, please
let us know. 
<br clear="all" />
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Rackspace providing additional hosting for PHP project</h1>
<?php print_link("http://www.rackspace.com/?supbid=php.net", make_image("news/rackspace.gif", "Rackspace", "right") ); ?>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[17-Sep-2001]</span>
Thanks to the generous folks at <a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/?supbid=php.net">Rackspace</a>, we have added additional
capacity for hosting the PHP project's efforts. Currently, the machine they
have provided is serving downloads for www.php.net and snaps.php.net. We will
continue to re-balance our resource needs across all of the machines provided
by our supporters.
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</p>

<hr />

<h1>11.09.2001</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[11-Sep-2001]</span>
The worldwide PHP community is horrified by recent events and would like to
offer its deepest sympathies to the friends and families of those who lost
their lives. <a href="http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html">Support the
Red Cross.</a>
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</p>

<hr />

<h1>Manual notes are mirrored worldwide</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[28-Aug-2001]</span>
There is no need now to come to the main php.net server, if you would like to read the manual notes,
as they are mirrored worldwide, and you can read them on all our mirror sites. You can get better response
times by visiting the closest mirror. See the bottom of our pages.
<br clear="all" />
</p>

<hr />

<h1><?php print_link("http://gtk.php.net/", make_image("news/php-gtk-white.gif", "PHP-GTK", "right") ); ?>
PHP-GTK version 0.1 released</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[02-Aug-2001]</span>
The 0.1 release of PHP-GTK is now available. PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that provides an object-oriented interface
to GTK+ toolkit and enables you to write client-side cross-platform GUI applications. Win32 binary version
should be available a little later.
</p>
<p>
Note that this version requires PHP CVS version to compile, but it can be run
under 4.0.5 and later.
</p>
<p>
A talk on PHP-GTK was presented by Andrei Zmievski and Frank Kromann at the 2001 O'Reilly Open Source Conference
in San Diego. The slides from the talk can be <a href="http://conf.php.net/sd-gtk">viewed online</a>.
For more information, visit <?php print_link("http://gtk.php.net/")?>.
<br clear="all" />
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Mailing lists and CVS are up!</h1>
<?php print_link("http://promote.pair.com/direct.pl?php.net", make_image("news/pair.gif", "pair Networks", "right") ); ?>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[1-Jul-2001]</span>
The disturbances in the mailing lists and CVS services that happened in the last
few weeks are now gone, hopefully for good. This is thanks to a brand new server donated
by <a href="http://promote.pair.com/direct.pl?php.net">pair Networks</a>. Thanks!
<br clear="all" />
</p>

<hr />

<?php print_link("http://www.linuxtag.org/2001/english/30.html", make_image("news/phplt.gif", "LinuxTag", "right") ); ?>

<h1>LinuxTag 2001 in Europe</h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[14-Jun-2001]</span>
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2001/english/30.html">LinuxTag 2001</a>
was in Stuttgart, Germany, between July 5th-8th. PHPUG.De has <a href="http://www.phpug.de/phplt_en.php4">a report</a> on the PHP events at LinuxTag.
</p>

<hr />

<h1><?php print_link("http://apachecon.com/2001/US/", "ApacheCon 2001");?></h1>

<p>
<span class="newsdate">[11-Apr-2001]</span>
You may have missed the conference, but you can see some of the
presentations online. Check out:</p>
<ul>
    <li>Thies Arntzen on <a href="http://conf.php.net/oci">Making efficient use of Oracle8i thru Apache and PHP 4</a></li>
	 <li>Stig Bakken on <a href="http://conf.php.net/pear">The PHP Extension and Application Repository</a></li>
	 <li>Daniel Beckham and Brian Moon on <a href="http://dealnews.com/apachecon/">Caching Dynamic Web Content to Increase Dependability and Performance</a></li>
	 <li>Rasmus Lerdorf's <a href="http://conf.php.net/ac2">Introduction to PHP</a></li>
	 <li>Zeev Suraski on <a href="http://conf.php.net/pres/other/internals/">PHP 4 Internals</a></li> 
	 <li>Nathan Wallace with <a href="http://www.e-gineer.com/articles/php-hackers-paradise-revisited.phtml">PHP: Hackers Paradise Revisited</a></li>
 </ul>

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