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Want to try out PHP5.next (PHP5.4?) on Ubuntu? After the death of PHP6.0 a while ago, development of PHP.next (PHP5.4 probably?) has been going on. There are a lot of cool features there try out - like traits , scalar type hint , and sh**loads of smaller features . There is still no public "development preview" or alpha release, but that doesn't mean we can't play around with it, report bugs, ensuring our apps still properly work with it etc etc etc. It is however a bit annoying needing to "go old-school" and fetch a snapshot and build it yourself though. When I was playing with launchpad the other day I figured.. why not provide a daily build of PHP trunk/ (PHP.next, PHP5.4 or whatever you want to call it)? Launchpad isn't all to happy with git, and doesn't support mirroring git branches, so a fork of the php5-vanilla-ubuntu repo  to php5-next-vanilla-ubuntu was needed as some of the patches there don't apply to trunk/. But that was a...

Since PHP 3.0.18 (released October 2000) (no, php.net doesn't keep release records before that for some reason) 60 PHP releases have been made. August and May are the most common months for PHP releases, with 9 releases each. PHP5.3.1 and PHP5.2.11 are in the works these days.. Judging by the August release "frenzy" I bet both will be out by the end of the month! Other useless stats? 26 PHP releases have been on Thursdays 1 On Saturday There have only been 2 releases in 2009 so far 2004 had 10 releases January, April and October have only had 3 releases (each) There has never been a release on Sunday The 89th, 121st, 122nd, 194th, 228th, 241st and the 349th day of the year have had 2 releases each The 3rd day of the month is most likely to be a release day, with total of 6 releases The 9th, 16th, 18th and 21st (of any month) have never been release days... The 18th week of the year is most likely to have an release, whole 8 releases have been made in that week! Want ...