add 7.0.0beta1 announce

Author: weltling

archive/archive.xml

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     <uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
     <email>php-webmaster@lists.php.net</email>
   </author>
+  <xi:include href="entries/2015-07-10-4.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2015-07-10-3.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2015-07-10-2.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2015-07-09-1.xml"/>

archive/entries/2015-07-10-4.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <title>PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1 Released</title>
+  <id>http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-07-10-4</id>
+  <published>2015-07-10T23:30:00+01:00</published>
+  <updated>2015-07-10T23:30:00+01:00</updated>
+  <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/>
+  <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+  <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2015-07-10-4" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+  <link href="http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-07-10-4" rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+  <content type="xhtml">
+    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+      <p>
+        The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of
+        PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1. This is the third pre-release of the new PHP 7 
+        major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully,
+        and report any bugs and incompatibilities in <a href="https://bugs.php.net">the bug tracking system</a>.
+     </p>
+
+     <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO <u>NOT</u> USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong>
+
+     <p>
+     Beta 1 marks the feature complete phase. From now on, fundamental 
+     changes are not to be expected. What's more, this release brings 
+     over 200 commits with about 25 reported bug fixes, as well as security, 
+     stability and other improvements. However it was delayed to catch up with 
+     the latest OpenSSL release issued on July 9th.
+     </p>
+
+     <p>
+      PHP 7.0.0 comes with new version of the Zend Engine with features such as (incomplete list):
+     </p>
+     <ul>
+        <li>Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6</li>
+        <li>Consistent 64-bit support</li>
+        <li>Many fatal errors are now Exceptions</li>
+        <li>Removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions</li>
+        <li>The null coalescing operator (??)</li>
+        <li>Combined comparison Operator (&lt;=&gt;)</li>
+        <li>Return Type Declarations</li>
+        <li>Scalar Type Declarations</li>
+        <li>Anonymous Classes</li>
+     </ul>
+
+     <p>
+      For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the 
+      <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.0beta1/NEWS">NEWS file</a>, or the
+      <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.0beta1/UPGRADING">UPGRADING file</a>
+      for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.
+     </p>
+
+     <p>
+      For source downloads of PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1 please visit
+      the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/ab/">download page</a>, Windows source and binaries
+      can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>.
+     </p>
+
+     <p>
+      The next release will be Beta 2, which is to be released on the 23rd of July. You can also 
+      read the full list of planned releases on our <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#timetable">wiki</a>.
+     </p>
+
+     <p>
+        Thank you for helping us make PHP better.
+     </p>
+    </div>
+  </content>
+</entry>