The PHP development team announces the availability of the first release candidate of PHP 5.5.
This release fixes some bugs as well as some possible leaks from our last beta.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

You can find an incomplete changelog of PHP 5.5.0RC1 here :

• Ignore QUERY_STRING when sent in SCRIPT_FILENAME in FPM SAPI.
• Fix build with system libgd >= 2.1 which is now the minimal
  version required (as build with previous version is broken).
  No change when bundled libgd is used.
• Fixed some bugs in SNMP
• Fixed bug where stream_select() fails with pipes returned by proc_open()
  on Windows x64).

To get the full changelog, please, check the NEWS file attached to the archive.
For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0RC1 please visit the download page,
Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Note that our release candidate cycle is only meant to bug fixes, no more features will be added to PHP 5.5 from now.

Please help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected.
Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the
QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

We would like to thank all people helping us making PHP better by testing it and reporting problems, as well as all its
contributors for their great work on this 5.5 version of PHP.

DevConf 2013 in Moscow, Russia on Jun 14

DevConf is the ultimate meeting place for russian-speaking web-developers,
combining several language-specific conferences under one roof.

This year DevConf will include the following sections:

• DevConf::PHP();
• DevConf::Ruby();
• DevConf::Python();
• DevConf::Javascript();
• DevConf::Mobi();

Each section will feature several talks from the active contributors/authors of the language.
Among the invited speakers are Dmitry Stogov (maintainer of Zend Engine and Zend OpCache and many more),
Chiu-Ki Chan (Google), Lennart Regebro, Andrey Aksyonov (author of Sphinx), Alexey Rybak (Badoo),
Alexander Makarov (one of the main contributors to Yii), Sergey Petrunya (of MariaDB fame),
and many others, see more details on the official website.