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--- phpweb/archive/2008.xml:1.71	Thu Dec  4 14:33:44 2008
+++ phpweb/archive/2008.xml	Thu Dec  4 21:14:47 2008
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <title>PHP.net news &amp; announcements</title>
   <link href="http://www.php.net/feed.atom" rel="self"/>
   <icon>/images/news/php-logo.gif</icon>
-  <updated>2008-12-04T09:30:00-05:00</updated>
+  <updated>2008-12-04T17:00:32+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://php.net/archive/2008.php</id>
   <author>
     <name>Webmaster</name>
@@ -11,6 +11,46 @@
     <email>[email protected]</email>
   </author>
   <entry>
+    <title>PHP 5.3 alpha3 released!</title>
+    <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-04-2</id>
+    <published>2008-12-04T17:00:32+01:00</published>
+    <updated>2008-12-04T17:00:32+01:00</updated>
+    <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+    <link href="http://www.php.net/index.php#id2008-12-04-2" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+    <link href="http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-04-2" rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+    <content type="xhtml">
+      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+        <p>The PHP development team is proud to announce the <a href="http://qa.php.net/">third alpha release</a>
+        of the upcoming PHP 5.3.0 minor version update of PHP.
+        Several new features have already been documented in the <a href="http://php.net/docs.php">official documentation</a>,
+        others are listed on the <a href="http://wiki.php.net/doc/scratchpad/upgrade/53">wiki</a>
+        in preparation of getting documented. It is imperative that more people
+        join the effort to complete the documentation for PHP 5.3.0.
+        Please also review the <a href="http://php.net/php5news">NEWS</a> file.</p>
+        <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong>
+        <p>The purpose of this alpha release is to encourage users to not only actively
+         participate in identifying bugs, but also in ensuring that all new features or
+         necessary backwards compatibility breaks are noted in the documentation. Please
+         report any findings to the <a href="mailto:[email protected]">QA mailinglist</a>
+         or the <a href="http://bugs.php.net">bug tracker</a>.</p>
+        <p>There have been a great number of other additions and improvements since the last alpha,
+        but here is a short overview of the most important changes:</p>
+        <ul>
+          <li><a href="http://php.net/language.namespaces">Namespaces</a> (documentation has been updated to the current state)</li>
+          <li><a href="http://wiki.php.net/rfc/rounding">Rounding behavior</a></li>
+          <li>ext/msql has been removed, while ext/ereg will now raise E_DEPRECATED notices</li>
+          <li>ext/mhash has been replaced by ext/hash but full BC is maintained</li>
+          <li>PHP now uses cc as the default compiler, instead of gcc</li>
+          <li>A number of bug fixes to ext/pdo, ext/soap, the stream layer among others</li>
+        </ul>
+        <p>Several under the hood changes also require in depth testing with existing
+        applications to ensure that any backwards compatibility breaks are minimized.</p>
+        <p>The current <a href="http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53">release plan</a> expects
+        a stable release sometime around the end of Q1 2009.</p>
+      </div>
+    </content>
+  </entry>
+  <entry>
     <title>PHP Advent 2008</title>
     <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-04-1</id>
     <published>2008-12-04T09:30:00-05:00</published>
@@ -47,14 +87,14 @@
       Lukas Smith, Core PHP Developper.
           </p>
     <p>
-	Set in Paris, on December 8th and 9th 2008, by the 
-	Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP (French PHP User Group, 
+	Set in Paris, on December 8th and 9th 2008, by the
+	Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP (French PHP User Group,
 	<a href="http://www.afup.org/" alt="AFUP">http://www.afup.org/</a>),
 	the Forum PHP 2008 focuses on the themas of Professional Web Services,
 	and PHP large scale projects.
     </p>
     </content>
-  </entry>  
+  </entry>
   <entry>
     <title>PHPNW08 - November 22nd - Manchester, UK</title>
     <id>http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-11-04-2</id>
@@ -109,18 +149,18 @@
     <content type="xhtml">
      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <p>
-       PHP London are pleased to announce their 4th annual UK PHP conference, 
+       PHP London are pleased to announce their 4th annual UK PHP conference,
        building on the success of previous events and accommodating the continual
-       growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry. The event will 
-       take place on Friday <abbr class="dtstart" title="2009-02-27">February 27th 2009</abbr> 
-       at <span class="location">Olympia Conference Centre, London</span>. 
-       Registration will commence in December 2008 and those interested in attending 
-       can create an account on the PHP UK Conference website at 
-       <a href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/user/register" class="url">http://www.phpconference.co.uk/user/register</a> 
-       and sign-up for notifications of updates to the website. 
+       growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry. The event will
+       take place on Friday <abbr class="dtstart" title="2009-02-27">February 27th 2009</abbr>
+       at <span class="location">Olympia Conference Centre, London</span>.
+       Registration will commence in December 2008 and those interested in attending
+       can create an account on the PHP UK Conference website at
+       <a href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/user/register" class="url">http://www.phpconference.co.uk/user/register</a>
+       and sign-up for notifications of updates to the website.
       </p>
       <p>
-       The Call For Papers is now open and finishes at the end of November 2008. 
+       The Call For Papers is now open and finishes at the end of November 2008.
        Speakers interested in talking at the event can submit their details at
        <a href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/call-for-papers">http://www.phpconference.co.uk/call-for-papers</a>
        whilst potential sponsors can contact the conference committee using the form at
@@ -147,10 +187,10 @@
     We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with Canadian and United States PHP professionals.
 	</p>
       <p>
-	The Conference features technical talks and Labs dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services,databases, etc., project management where speakers and visitor swill try to find solutions to actual business problems. 
+	The Conference features technical talks and Labs dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services,databases, etc., project management where speakers and visitor swill try to find solutions to actual business problems.
 	</p>
       <p>
-	Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French. For more information, visit the website: 
+	Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French. For more information, visit the website:
 	<a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/en" title="2009 PHP QuebecConference">http://conf.phpquebec.com</a>
 </p>
     </content>
@@ -265,9 +305,9 @@
           social events in the evening and plenty of networking opportunities with industry peers.
         </p>
         <p>
-          This year, the PHP Community (and the Python Community, too!) meets <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-11-12">November 12</abbr>-<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-11-14">14</abbr> for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. 
+          This year, the PHP Community (and the Python Community, too!) meets <abbr class="dtstart" title="2008-11-12">November 12</abbr>-<abbr class="dtend" title="2008-11-14">14</abbr> for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008.
         </p>
-        <p>  
+        <p>
           Join us to hear <a href="http://phpworks.mtacon.com/c/schedule">top speakers</a> such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Mike Potter (Adobe) and more.
         </p>
       </div>