A group of winners of PHP elePHPhants or TestFest mugs have been picked at random from the people that contributed the 887 tests during the 2009 PHP TestFest.

Winners of elePHPhants

• Mark Schaschke TestFest London May 2009
• Patrick Allaert Belgian PHP Testfest 2009
• Rafael Dohms testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20
• Guilherme Blanco testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20
• Fabio Fabbrucci Italian PHP TestFest 2009 Cesena 19-20-21 june
• Rodrigo Moyle testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20
• Edgar Ferreira da Silva testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20
• Marco Fabbri PHPTestFest Cesena Italia on 2009-06-20
• Jason Easter Testfest 2009 2009-06-20
• Simon Westcott PHPNW Testfest 2009

Winners of mugs

• Tim Eggert Testfest Berlin 2009-05-09
• Till Klampaeckel TestFest 2009
• Havard Eide Norway 2009-06-09 \o/
• Ŕlex Corretgé - Catalonia
• Francesco Fullone TestFest Cesena Italia on 2009-06-20
• Ivan Rosolen testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20
• Moritz Neuhaeuser Testfest Berlin 2009-05-10
• Daniel Convissor TestFest 2009 NYPHP
• Matt Raines testfest London 2009-05-09

Winners will be contacted shortly.

Once again a huge thank you! to everyone who helped to make this year's TestFest such an outstanding success!

The migration from CVS to Subversion is complete. The web interface is at svn.php.net. You can read about it at php.net/svn.php, wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq. The URL to feed to your svn client is https://svn.php.net/repository.

There is also a github mirror. Please use that instead of trying to do a full git clone from the svn repository. See the instructions at wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq#git

Many thanks to Gwynne who did the bulk of the work and also all the other folks who pitched in. It was a major effort to move 14 years of CVS history to another RCS.

So finally we are at the end of the 2009 PHP TestFest. It has been an outstanding success with the coverage increasing by about 2.5% overall and 887 new tests contributed in the TestFest SVN repository of which 637 have already been added to PHP CVS.

User groups from all over the world have worked hard to make this happen and we thank each and every one of you for your contribution to PHP! You really made a difference to the PHP5.3 release quality.

There still are few loose ends to tie up - the TestFest SVN repository will be closed for contributions later this week and the last few tests will be moved into the main PHP repository. Finally, we have 10 elePHPants and 9 TestFest mugs to give out. The winners of mugs and elePHPants will be drawn at random from a list of people who wrote tests; the winner's names will be announced later this month.

For those that would like to continue to make a difference by writing tests there are two options. You can simply continue by submitting new tests to the QA mailing list, or, if you have written a significant number of tests you might consider applying for your own PHP CVS (or SVN) ID. In your application you should reference the tests that you have written in support of your application.

Last but not least, we would like to thank all of the companies and institutions that sponsored TestFest. These include Combell, Corretgé, Faculdade Impacta de Tecnologia, IBM, iBuildings, Itera, Mayflower, Microsoft, Nexen (Alter Way Group), php|architect, Redpill-Linpro, Steinigke Showtechnic, Verges Council and Zend.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.

Further details about the PHP 5.3.0 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 (PHP 5.3.0RC4). This RC focuses on bug fixes and stability improvements, and we hope only minimal changes are required for the next candidate or final stable releases. PHP 5.3.0 is a newly developed version of PHP featuring long-awaited features like namespaces, late static binding, closures and much more.

Please download and test these release candidates, and report any issues found. A stable release is expected next week . In case of critical issues we will continue producing weekly RCs. Downloads and further information is available at qa.php.net. See also the work in progress 5.3 upgrade guide.