Reading planet-debian and Apache (from Sven and David), I catched two posts about clones and references in php4 and php5. I do not think it is worth to explain again everything here as Sara wrote a very good post already, check it out here.

What annoys me a little is to read more and more bad posts about PHP from people not using it. As David and Sven posts were nice (but still wrong) , I remember other trashy posts (this one was on planet-ubuntu. What does that bring to the other (obviously) better languages or what does that take from PHP notoriety? Nothing, it only shows the possible lack of clue of the poster, who was not humble enough to admit it.

I wonder when the OS community in general will be mature enough to stop bitching at each other. And that’s valid for PHP developers, gnome-kde and other well established wars. Bitching ourselves (I can be a good annoyance for php itself, I admit ;) ) can be a good thing and it is way to get things done in a project (without abusing ;).

The first release candidate for the upcoming GD 2.0.35 has been released yesterday. It is a bug fixes only. The more important fix is about two possible race conditions in the freetype cache implementation. One in the rendering (glyph_draw) and one during the cache shutdown.

You can see the complete list of changes in the issues tracker or in the NEWS file.

• gd-2.0.35RC1.tar.gz
• gd-2.0.35RC1.tar.bz2