# PHP 5.0.1 released…and I wasn't paying attention


By Ben Ramsey

Published on August 14, 2004


After waiting around for several weeks with the words "hope to roll PHP 5.0.1 soon" or even "tomorrow," the day has finally come, and I wasn't paying any attention because I was too busy at the office trying to wrap things up on my [last day](https://web.archive.org/web/20060210081915/https://www.benandliz.com/2004/08/13/last-day-new-beginning/).

So, [PHP 5.0.1](http://php.net/archive/2004.php#5.0.1) was released today.

> This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes also includes new UNIX and Windows installation docs which are now auto-generated from the PHP Manual.

I've compiled it without any problems, and it seems to show up as version 5.0.1 just fine when I run `php --version`:

```shell
$ php --version
PHP 5.0.1 (cli) (built: Aug 13 2004 22:53:26)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.0.1, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
```

But, when I load up `phpinfo()` in a Web page, it shows PHP Version 5.0.0 with a build date of Jul 22 2004 01:09:03.

It seems I've had this problem before, but I can't recall how I solved it.