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The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours.

Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.

No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

PECL/mysqlnd 1.1.2-stable has been released. The mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin for PHP 5.3/5.4 finally got the download label it deserves: stable, ready for production use!

PECL/mysqlnd_ms makes using any kind of MySQL database cluster easier. Download PECL/mysqlnd from pecl.php.net Documentation at the PHP Reference Manual Key features The release motto of the ...

On DZone.com Giorgio Sironi has a new post talking about a development practice that's becoming more and more popular (rather than the old standby of one development platform for all developers) - using virtual machines as reusable, easily renewable platforms.

He talks about the process he went through to set up PHP, including the commands used during the process.

I keep mentioning my stop building gold on top of crap blog post and here I go again.

Basically the point of that blog post was that way too few PHP applications are build on top of a general purpose framework that enables developers to add custom functionality not directly related to the core of the application without having to commit suicide.

Now I was arguing for these applications to adopt existing PHP frameworks.

Softpedia: "Steven Shiau proudly announced the final and stable release of its popular Clonezilla Live operating system, used for cloning hard disk drives."

As you may have read on this blog, we (together with local.ch) provide a ready-to-run compiled PHP package for OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion) for easy installation over at php-osx.liip.ch.

Last week, Symfony2′s first stable release, 2.0.0, has been released.

We are big fans of this modern PHP framework, and have been working with it and contributing to it since it was introduced at the Symfony Live 2010 conference a year ago.

It’s great to finally see it come to life officially, and I can’t wait to see the feedback of the broader user base.

Monolog is a simple logging library for PHP 5.3+, inspired by Python’s Logbook.

It is namespaced, tested, PSR-0 compliant and all of these good things.

uTorrent has come a long way since it first saw the light of day in the fall of 2005.

What started out as a minimalist and no-nonsense client targeted at an already BitTorrent-savvy crowd, has slowly become an application that does far more than downloading alone.

During the past year many new features have been announced and tested, and nearly all of these are included in today’s first stable release of uTorrent 3.0.