February 29th (Leap Year Day). phplondon.org announce their third
annual community conference
to be held at Inmarsat, Old Street, London.

This year the conference will run two tracks and include speakers such as Derick Rethans, Wez Furlong, Scott MacVicar and Zoe Slattery.

We will also be holding an extended presentation and discussion on frameworks for PHP.

Visit our conference site to register. Early bird discount is available until 1st February 2008.

2008 DC PHP Conference June 2nd – 4th

• Submission Deadline: March 15, 2008
• Notification by: April 2, 2008

Join us at the 3rd Annual DC PHP Conference. The event will take place at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in the heart of Washington DC. The three day conference begins June 2nd and 3rd with general sessions, and ends June 4th with tutorials.

For more details go to http://www.dcphpconference.com/node/346

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of
PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4
branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as
possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4
series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4 release. If necessary,
releases to address security issues could be made until 2008-08-08.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.8:

• Improved fix for MOPB-02-2007.
• Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split(). Identified by Gerhard Wagner.
• Fixed integer overlow in str[c]spn().
• Fixed regression in glob when open_basedir is on introduced by #41655 fix.
• Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens.
• Added "max_input_nesting_level" php.ini option to limit nesting level of input variables. Fix for MOPB-03-2007.
• Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL – now not allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active.
• Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378).

For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.8, see the ChangeLog.