The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.3. This release combines small number of feature enhancements with a significant amount of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.3 include: Disallow certain characters in session names. Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function. Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function. Enforce safe_mode for the source parameter of the copy() function. Fixed cross-site scripting inside the phpinfo() function. Fixed offset/length parameter validation inside the substr_compare() function. Fixed a heap corruption inside the session extension. Fixed a bug that would allow variable to survive unset(). Fixed a number of crashes in the DOM, SOAP and PDO extensions. Upgraded bunbled PCRE library to version 6.6 The use of the var keyword to declare properties no longer raises a deprecation E_STRICT. FastCGI interface was completely reimplemented. Multitude of improvements to the SPL, SimpleXML, GD, CURL and Reflection extensions. Over 120 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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The faculty for Computer Science of the college of higher education Bonn-Rhein-Sieg celebrates the first conference about free software in cooperation with the LUUSA and the FrOSCon e.V. 2006. The event takes place on June 24th/25th in Bonn, Germany and is organized completely free and open. The PHP user groups Köln/Bonn and Dortmund take part in the conference and organize a professional PHP track for both days. The call for papers is currently open and every interesting talk is highly appreciated.

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The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven PHP event that will be held in Skien, Norway from June 24th to 25th. Like the famous Foo Camp and Bar Camp, the people who attend get to choose and present the sessions at the event. The event is meant to be affordable: registration is 20 Euros, and simple food and a place to sleep are provided for both days of the event. The major expense for most attendees will be the cost of traveling to Norway. 50 invitations have been sent to various PEAR and PHP contributors. General registration for the event opens on May 1st.

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The PHP Quebec team is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. This year, the conference will be held at the Montreal Plaza Hotel from March 29th to 31st. It features 2 days of technical learning and an additional day of workshop. Among the speakers, the well known PHP Experts such has Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmeivski, Derick Rethans and Ilia Alshanetsky. The conference will have three distinct tracks of session: Advanced Techniques, Professional Development and Databases. With over 31 sessions, including workshops, the PHP Québec Conference is great opportunity to learn about the latest PHP techniques and professional development techniques to help you build high quality PHP software. The conference will also present the various storage solutions available such has  IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL. Early bird pricing are available until march 3rd. Learn more about this exciting conference at http://conf.phpquebec.com.

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The New York PHP Conference & Expo 2006 is taking place in New York City, at the historic New Yorker Hotel, June 14-16, 2006. There will be three full days of sessions, tutorials, exhibits, and networking events. NYPHPCon 2006 focuses on the The PHP Business Community, with two featured parallel tracks: Business Strategy and Technical Solutions. Over 400 are expected to attend, including business and technical professionals from around the world. We invite everyone - whether technical or non-technical - to participate in our Call For Papers. An early-bird discount is available until March 1st.

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