Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year's GSoC.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008.Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.

So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source passionate join us in our most enjoyable Google Summer of Code projects.

2008 PHP Quebec Conference & Job Fair

The PHP Quebec team is pleased to present the sixth edition of the PHP
Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada,
on March 12 through
14.

Join us for the PHPLabs, 2 days of technical talks, the Open Source Job
Fair & Cocktail. Meet with well know community members such as: John
Coggeshall, Marcus Boerger, Zak Greant, Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy and
many more.

Take note that online registration ends on March 7th. For more information,
visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com

php|tek 2008: Chicago

The publishers of php|architect Magazine are proud to announce the php|tek 2008 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The PHP Community meets May 20-23 for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. Join us to hear top speakers such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Lucas Nelan (Facebook), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Eli White (Digg) and yes, even Terry Chay (Tagged).

For the past two years, php|architect's spring conference has sold out weeks before the start date, so if you're interested in attending, don't delay, and be sure to sign up ASAP!

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.

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.