In a note from PHP Magazine, there's a pointer to a posting over on phpvolcano.com reminiscing a bit about the roots of the CVS releases for PHP 5.

In a quick note from phpvolcano.com is a "look back" at the path that has been taken since the initial CVS release of PHP 5. Here is an extract from the bottom of that chronological list:

• March 18 2004: PHP5 RC1 hit the streets: lots and lots of bug fixes
• April 25 2004: PHP5 RC2 hit the streets saw implementing interface/abstract class with wrong prototype being a fatal error and __construct() always takes precedense over the old style constructor + heaps of bug fixes
• May 5 2004:Derick Rethans had a talk called "Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5" on the international PHP conference.
• June 8 2004: PHP5 RC3 hit the streets, less updates now
• July 13 2004: PHP5 final version is out!

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