The first Free and Open Source Conference "FrOSCon" takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 in St. Augustin, near Bonn, Germany. Organized by a commited team, it aims to become a significant event for free software in the Rhineland. The conference is hosted by the faculty of computer science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in collaboration with the student body and the Linux/Unix User Group St. Augustin. In a Call for Papers, the organizers ask for submission of contributions. A broad variety of topics concerning free and open source software is desired. Particularly welcome are contributions about programming languages, free software on the desktop, security, systems administration and networks. Aspects of free software in business and industry are also a focus of the conference. Contributions can be submitted in English or German and should summarize the intended talk concisely and succinctly; talks should range from 45 to 60 minutes in length. Deadline for submission is 15th March 2006.

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The first UK PHP Conference if going to be held on February 10th 2006, organized by the PHP London user group. This is a one day event at South Bank University, plus networking events. The list of speakers: Derick Rethans, Pawel Kozlowski, Harry Fuecks, Chris Kunz and Matt Zandstra. Not bad for 50 quid.

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The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.4.2. This release address a few small security issues, and also corrects some regressions that occurred in PHP 4.4.1. All PHP 4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Some of the key changes of PHP 4.4.2 include: HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in the header() function. An XSS problem inside the error reporting functionality has been removed. Apache 2 regression with sub-request handling on non-Linux systems has been fixed. A regression with the key() and current() functions have been fixed. Over 30 various bug fixes. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 4 ChangeLog.

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The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.2. This release combines small feature enhancements with a fair number of bug fixes and addresses three security issues. All PHP 5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.2 include: HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in ext/session and in the header() function. Fixed format string vulnerability in ext/mysqli. Fixed possible cross-site scripting problems in certain error conditions. Hash & XMLWriter extensions added and enabled by default. Upgraded OCI8 extension. Over 85 various bug fixes. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.

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PHP 4.4.1 is now available for download. This version is a maintenance release, that contains numerous bug fixes, including a number of security fixes related to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array. All users of PHP 4.3 and 4.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The full list of changes in PHP 4.4.1 is available in the PHP 4 ChangeLog.

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