PHP 5.1 Beta 1 Available

Jun

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PHP 5.1 Beta 1 is now available! A lot of work has been put into this upcoming release and we believe it is ready for public testing.

Some of the key improvements of PHP 5.1 include:

PDO (PHP Data Objects) - A new native database abstraction layer providing performance, ease-of-use, and flexibility.

Significantly improved performance including a new Zend Engine II execution architecture.

The PCRE extension has been updated to PCRE 5.0.

Many more improvements including lots of new functionality & many bug fixes, especially in regards to SOAP, streams and SPL.

See the bundled NEWS file for a more complete list of changes.

Source : PHP.net

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