[PHP-users 18713] PHP5.0.0 Beta2 Released!!

[Seiji Masugata]

こんにちわ、桝形です。

既にお気づきの方も多いとは思いますが、PHP5.0.0 Beta2が
リリースされていますね。。。。この勢いで、本当に年末までに
正式リリースするのだろうか。

RC3のmbstringの件で、多くのQAテストが望まれていますが、前回
同様に影が薄くなりそうですね。

http://www.php.net/
http://www.php.net/NEWS_PHP_5_0_0b2.txt
http://www.php.net/ZEND_CHANGES_PHP_5_0_0b2.txt
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.internals&article=5131

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PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 released

[30-Oct-2003] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 has been released.
This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we 
recommend for PHP users to try it.

PHP 5 is still not ready for production use! 

Some of the more major changes include: 

PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2. 

XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, 
all extensions are now focused around the excellent 
libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). 

SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information 
on SQLite, please visit their website. 

A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and 
manipulating XML as PHP objects. 

It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa. 

Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to 
access low-level socket operations on streams. 

There have been many changes since Beta 1, some of them 
documented in the NEWS file and most language changes are 
documented in ZEND_CHANGES 
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Seiji Masugata<s.masugata ＠ digicom.dnp.co.jp>