release candidates

Since October 2011, 5 million lines of the PEAR codebase has shifted to github.

Hand in hand with this shift has been the tireless work of Daniel C – someone who brazenly said “I will fix the failing packages!” in the tail end of last year.

Coupling his efforts with a call to arms, we’ve now seen an evaluation of the Known Good packages against PHP 5.4, and massive input by the community.

The net result is as follows:

Microsoft announced simplified licensing for System Center 2012 this week as the company issued release candidates of all eight components for testing.

The PHP development team has released the latest beta version of the PHP 5.4.x series for testing - 5.4.0beta1.

Considering that they've been working on it for about two years no

Linux Journal: "Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOffice are both nearing their freely available 3.3.0 versions and show their wares with recent release candidates."

Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOf

Freemind, the open source Java based m

The H Open Source: "After nine release candidates and just under three months in development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux version 2.6.31.

Like its predecessors in the main development line, it offers a whole host of new features."

On the main PHP.net site today they've posted an announcement about the latest Release Candidates for upcoming PHP versions of PHP 5.2.1 and PHP 5.3.0.

Over on Reddit.com today there's an interesting post that kicks off a discussion as to PHP might be a "parody of itself" by making the choice to include "goto" functionality in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release (you can find release candidates here).