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/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
