MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production Ready
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MySQL AB, developer of the world&#39;s most popular open source database, today announced the general availability of MySQLÂ® 4.1.
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(InfoWorld) - Developers at open-source player MySQL are hard at work on a project code-named "Merlin", which isÂ designed to make it easier for customers to manage and maintain the company's database software, a source close to MySQL says. Merlin is a server-based database monitoring and advisory service which continually scans a user's database network for any likely system crashes, bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities, the source said. Under development at MySQL for 22 months, Merlin is due to debut late in the fourth quarter of this calendar year or early in the first quarter of 2007. It's unclear whether Merlin contains any third-party software or if MySQL developers have modeled the offering on any existing database monitoring and advisory service. The aim of Merlin is to simplify MySQL database administration for both small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and enterprises. While SMBs often can't afford to employ database administrators (DBAs) to look after their MySQL implementations, larger firms are running into difficulties trying to find sufficient DBAs with specific MySQL skills. Customer demand was a strong factor in the vendor deciding to create Merlin, the source added. In an interview Friday, Marten Mickos, chief executive officer at MySQL, declined to comment on the project. However, he said that one of his company's main focuses in the coming year will be to provide tools and other offerings to make life easier for MySQL DBAs. "Our first wave of users in the '90s were not database developers," Mickos said. "In the twenty-first century, we've been enabling database developers. Now, we're thinking of ways to help DBAs and take care of them." Merlin acts as a "virtual DBA" or "a constant MySQL consultant," the source said, alerting users to potential system issues before they become critical and offering fixes, tips and tuning options to improve the performance of the MySQL database. So far, Merlin has 50-plus database rules that it can check and provide advice on, with the expectation that both MySQL and its customers will build more customized rules in future. Merlin, now being beta-tested at 24 customer sites, will be rolled into the MySQL Network subscription service, the source said.
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The Symfony project has made a major announcement today - with the latest release of the project, they've made it to the 1.0 mark! Symfony version 1.0 has been released!    At last, the long-awaited 1.0 stable version of symfony is just released. For all those who waited for the "stable" status to dive into symfony, the time has come.   The 1.0 is not just another release. We call it an "enterprise" release, which means that we will keep on maintaining it for a long time (that is, for several years). When a new release of PHP comes with its wagon of BC break, we will update symfony 1.0 to make it compatible. When a bug is found and corrected in one of the components of symfony 1.0, we will update the stable release to make the symfony experience always better.    Congrats go out to the >entire team and all of the many, many contributors to the project. Hitting a stable release is no easy mark and it's great to see one of the best PHP frameworks out there hit it dead on.   Oh, and help spread the word - add your digg!
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The JSLabs Blog has a look at one of the most popular PHP scripts in use today - phpBB - and their latest development release (v3.0 beta 4) and asks "is it worth the wait?"   Recently, a new development version has been released (for testing purposes only), which has many new improvements over the current version (2.X). Today, I decided to install it on one of my development servers to find out if it really is worth the wait.   He lists the requirements and goes through a series of screenshots and descriptions of the new features including caching and the improvements to the moderation system.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:JPEG Slicerclass upload fileFeed GeneratorCSV CreationKG MySQL ClassMYDB ClassmyYouYubeCotaÃÂ§ÃÂ£o do DollarObject  dynamic generationHTTP client classconvert
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Nessa has two posts that talk about how to use PHP to display the versions of software running on the local machine.   I've been working on this application for work that does some simple server reporting, part of which involves displaying the versions of major software running on the machines. [...] I need to be aware of this to make sure that customers are being moved to servers with compatible versions. It's also good in tracking and planning upgrades.   In the first post she recommends using the exec function in PHP to run system commands to get things like the cpanel version, python version and what perl you have installed.   Part two shows a little bit different way to get some of the same information - using the data in the /proc/version file as a single resource to get OS information.
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InfoWorld - MySQL at the end of January is expected to release a beta version of its MySQL 5.0 open source database, which is to feature enterprise-level functionality such as stored procedures and triggers, according to a company representative.
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Blog: Software maker says it's ready with a near-final "release candidate" version, which will find its way on to servers later this year.
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Open-source database to jump from beta testing to production within three months.
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Christopher Jones has a (very) quick announcement about the latest builds of the PHP RPMs for Enterprise linux installations:   PHP 5.2.5 RPMs for x86 Enterprise Linux (i.e. RHEL) 4.6 and 5.1 are on http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/. These are supplied "as is".   The RPMs are part of a project to provide support for Oracle Enterprise Linux servers (as well as Red Hat installs) and provide a PHP command line, CGI interface and an Apache module quickly and easily. Check out the project page to find out more and to grab this latest build.
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As mentioned by php|architect, the phpMyAdmin group has released the latest version of their popular database management package - phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.   This release is bugfixes only, no new features and corrects around 20 bugs that have been found in previous versions. If you're running an older version, it's suggested that you update, but there's no immediate need (no larger security issues or the like).
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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.   Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.11, which will probably be the last series supporting PHP 4.   This version supports creating VIEWs from query results and can manage triggers, procedures and functions. It also supports MySQL 5.0.37 query profiling and has an improved interface for servers hosting thousands of databases and tables.
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New versions of both generations of the PHP language have been released today - versions 5.2.1 and 4.4.5:   The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.1 and availability of PHP 4.4.5. These releases are major stability and security enhancements of the 5.x and 4.4.x branches, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about the PHP 5.2.1 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.1, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5. Details about the PHP 4.4.5 release can be found in the release announcement for 4.4.5, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 4.   You can find what updates were made in each of the releases in their appropriate changelogs and from the main PHP.net website.