Hi!

Following more than a year of planning and development, and the release 
of version 1.0.0 on PECL, I have merged today the intl extension into 
PHP core. The list of its current capabilities is here: 
http://php.net/intl - please try it out and enjoy. Version compatible 
with 5.2.x starting 5.2.4 is available from PECL, and for 5.3 is in the 
CVS tree.

I would like to say big thanks to everybody who contributed to this 
project, by helping to design it, write the code, test it or provided 
feedback and bug reports. Thanks a lot!

With this, it is not by any means the end of the road for this project. 
There's still much to be done. We need to integrate it much better with 
PHP 6, improve support for other modules like DateTime, and support more 
capabilities of ICU, like resources, calendars, IDN - and you probably 
could think of more. And, of course, bugfixes :)

If you have any comments, wishes, feedback etc. please tell. And if you 
encounter a bug or have specific feature request please go to 
http://pecl.php.net/package/intl and go to "Package Bugs"->"Report new 
bug".

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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com