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PHP 5.1.0 Released (final)

php.net — A new major version of PHP with major security and performance improvements among brand new features is released. Get it while it's hot!

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  • ipugh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad 5.1 *still* has an xpath bug. If you use xpath with your XML, then 5.01 is still for you.
  • vermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder what's the percentage of servers that run a php5.x flavor vs a php4.x flavor. Anyone have any idea?
  • karch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0arghhhhhhhhhh, i JUST, literally JUST finished setting up a wampr dev environment with 5.05.

    hah, it's not really a big deal, but .. goddamnit.
  • Forse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am not upgrading my servers yet. I will once it reaches actual stable state (less patches and better security).
  • redguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have the same problem too with all my customers :(. Right now I can use PHP 5 just to play with it but not for production and it annoys the hell out of me.
  • spiralhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Still no namespaces... Bleh
  • Snowknight26, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent!
  • MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad the server I'm on won't support the new version on php until a new version of h-sphere comes out.
  • tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome! I've been waiting for this specifically for the PDO functions. Time to install...
  • shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0does anyone know if it's safe to keep the old php.ini with the new version?
    the old ini was from version 5.0.5
  • Junx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now that 5.1.x is released, those damn webhosts will [hopefully] finally upgrade to a real language instead of using that outdated mess of PHP 4.x. I remember webhosts that still used 4.2.x when 4.4.x was the standard 4.x release...
  • darkfate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yep i just downloaded it for win32 very cool
  • opus20745, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Are there any benchmarks that people are aware of comparing PHP4|PHP5|PHP5.1 as far as performance is concerned? I mean, it's easy to say that performance is improved... but what's the baseline?

    Was PHP5 faster than PHP4 for identical code? Thus making PHP5.1 even faster? Or was it a case of PHP5 being a bit more bulky than PHP4, thus PHP5.1 bringing it more inline with the old performance. I'm looking to upgrade of PHP 4.4.1 installs, but I'm holding off on PHP5.1 until eaccelerator (open source PHP accelerator) becomes compatible. As it is, PHP5.0.5 is the last supported version. But if 5.0.5 is slower than 4.4.1, I'll hold off.

    Thanks in advance.
  • mattisbusy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah, I just finished setting up 7 servers with PHP 5.0.5 about three hours ago... but yeah, you can definitely keep the same php.ini file across these versions
  • mathie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good to hear this news
  • motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PHP is awesome. Film at 11.
  • vincentb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Performance is awesome.

    Yes the old php.ini is safe I think. Mine is from PHP4 and still working on PHP 5.1.

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