alpha release

Phoronix: "If all goes according to plan, the first alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope) will be released tomorrow.

It's not even been one month since the release of Ubuntu 8.10, but this first alpha release will show early signs of what we can expect to see in this next Canonical-sponsored release..."

Thankfully it's just me and not the rest of PHP internals. So today we has an IRC meeting to discuss namespaces in PHP.

We can to a final decision replacing the current double colon separator with a backslash to solve ambiguity issues with the current syntax.

In this new post to his blog Chris Hartjes suggests a new way to judge frameworks - how easy they make it to write unit tests against them and their resulting applications.

In a new blog entry Lukas Smith notes that the latest alpha release, version 2, of the PHP 5.3 series is now available for download from the PHP QA website.

If you check the qa website you will see that there is a new alpha release of our next minor version PHP 5.3.0 out that is awaiting your testing (remember no whining about BC breaks if you did not test the pre-release versions).

Also this time around the Windows infrastructure is in place with its very own website and a large choice of different binaries for whatever flavor of Windows you prefer.

Aside from a few additions, it was mainly bug fixing in this release.

KDE.News: "The KOffice team, developers, students, packagers and bug reporters have prepared the final Alpha release of KOffice 2.0: KOffice 2.0 Alpha 10.

KOffice will enter feature freeze in two weeks, so the next release will be the first Beta."

On the O'Reilly ONLamp blog Todd Ogasawara points out a few things that Windows users should watch out for with the upcoming PHP 5.3 release.

Helgi has posted about an update to the next alpha release of PEAR to remove support for certain versions of PHP:

So the title says it all, kinda ...

For the next alpha release of PEAR that will happen in 2 - 4 weeks we'll have a min dep of PHP 4.4 and 5.1.6, so basically excluding 5.0.0 - 5.1.5 Now why am I going to do that ?

As announced on the PHP.net site today, the first alpha version of the much-anticipated PHP 5.3 has been released - PHP 5.3 alpha 1.