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+title:     "PHP 5.4 released"
+date:      2012-03-20 13:31:12+00:00
+tags:      [php]
+permalink: /blog/2012/3/20/php-5-4-released
+published: true
+author:
+    name: Gergely Polonkai
+    email: gergely@polonkai.eu
+---
+
+After a long time of waiting, PHP announced 5.4 release on 1 March (also,
+today they announced that they finally migrate to Git, which is sweet from my
+point of view, but it doesn’t really matter).
+
+About a year ago we became very agressive towards a developer who created our
+internal e-learning system. Their database was very insecure, and they didn’t
+really follow industry standards in many ways. Thus, we forced them to move
+from Windows + Apache 2.0 + PHP 5.2 + MySQL 4.0 to Debian Linux 6.0 + Apache
+2.2 + PHP 5.3 + MySQL 5.1. It was fun (well, from our point of view), as their
+coders… well… they are not so good. The code that ran “smoothly” on the
+old system failed at many points on the new one. So they code and code, and
+write more code. And they still didn’t finish. And now 5.4 is here. Okay, I
+know it will take some time to get into the Debian repositories, but it’s
+here. And they removed `register_globals`, which will kill that funny code again
+at so many points that they will soon get to rewrite the whole code to make it
+work. And I just sit here in my so-much-comfortable chair, and laugh. Am I
+evil?