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PHP 5 is out!

14th July 2004

It’s finally here! Unfortunately PHP.net, while a great site in most respects, fails miserably when it comes to permalinks for news items and/or new software releases. You can grab it from their downloads page, and read more about it in the changelog. Now all it needs is widespread adoption. Unfortunately, something tells me PHP 4 is going to stick around for a long, long time.

Posted 14th July 2004 at 12:13 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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