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Fractured Realities:
PHP 5.1 Highlights
byChris Cornutt Feb 02, 2005 @ 13:58:31

Davey Shafik has a new posting over on his weblog today concerning some of the changes that are to come with PHP 5.1 (as posted by Andi Gutmans on the php-internals mailing list).

Today Andi Gutmans posted to php-internals about starting on the path to a 5.1 release. This release is a milestone for most people; a large percentage of developers are waiting on this release before upgrading from 4.3.x.

The highlights for PHP 5.1 are:

  • PDO will be bundled
  • New Zend Virtual Machine
  • Input filtering
We will apparently be seeing at least one beta release to allow for feedback on how well PDO and the new VM work, and presumably for the input filtering also. PHP 5.1 here we come! My only problem with 5.1 is that if I use the input filtering stuff, it will be PHP 5.1 only. Perhaps Rasmus will place it in PECL for 5.x? I will already have this same relationship for PDO.

Sounds like there are quite a few things to anticipate for this new release. There's no posted release date yet, but given the past progress of the PHP team, we shouldn't have to wait too long...

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