Yes, as what you read. The PHP developers have decided to announce that PHP 4 will be officially dropped from the project cycle. They need to concentrate on PHP 5, and the forthcoming PHP 6. As they’ve planned, any new feature of PHP will be made available to version 5.2 and above only. PHP 4 however, will still receive critical update until late 2008.
Frequently maintained projects like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, phpMyAdmin, PEAR, and phpBB shouldn’t be affected by this decision. This will mostly affect countless of web hosts out there, who serve millions of custom-made php scripts. This will be a very big headache.
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It is necessary to upgrade to this version because this is a security release. It addresses following security vulnerabilities:
Along with other bugs fixed.
- Atom feed validation fixes
- XML-RPC fixes
- Widget backward compatibility fixes
- Widget layout fixes for IE7
- Page and Text Widget improvements
For more details, please refer to this page.
Tags: 2.2.1, upgrade, WordPress
All these, happened in Johor Bahru, Malaysia recently.
Case #1
Early May, 28 year old pregnant woman, along with her husband and 3 year old son, on their way to downtown Johor Bahru. The husband stopped the car at a petrol station near Tampoi to answer nature’s call. Wife and son waited on the car. Robbers with knife showed up and knocked at the car’s window, threatened the woman with her husband’s safety. The woman gave in and unlocked the car door, prayed that the robbers was only after the valuables. The robbers hopped in the car and drove away, with the woman and her 3 year old son on board. The robbers drove the car to Plentong area, raped the pregnant in somewhere quiet, and took away all her valuables. After the robbers fetched another member on board, finally released the mother and son at Taman Permas Jaya.
Case #2
5th June, around 10 pm. A construction contractor with his female companion, headed to Danga Bay condo to visit their friend. They stopped at one petrol station beside Pasir Gudang highway to fuel up the car. 3 armed robbers showed up and forced them back into the car. The robbers then drove the car with the couple held hostages inside. The robbers then drove the car around Pasir Gudang area for an hour, finally stopped at Kempas area. The robbers gang raped the female victim inside a bush, and took away both victims’ valuables. The 4th robber drove another car and fetched the 3 robbers on the spot, then fled.
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Now this is getting my attention. Privacy International has published a report with title “A Race to the Bottom : Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies” on June 9, 2007. This report has attracted a lot attentions especially on the Google side since it is ranked at the bottom one as “Hostile to Privacy” among other companies reviewed, including
- Amazon
- AOL
- Apple
- BBC
- Bebo
- eBay
- Facebook
- Friendster
- Google
- Hi5
- Last.fm
- LinkedIn
- LiveJournal
- Microsoft
- MySpace
- Orkut
- Reunion.com
- Skype
- Wikipedia
- Windows Live Space
- Xanga
- Yahoo!
- YouTube
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