For the last few months I have been following progress on the development of new NetBeans with PHP support. And, few days ago final NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP has been released.

From NetBeans official website you can choose download you need. You can download PHP only NetBeans (24MB) or you can choose full NetBeans (250MB) that includes editors for Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++ with Apache Tomcat and GlassFish servers. You can choose Windows, Linux, Sparc or MacOS versions.

If you are using Windows as I am, to run NetBeans you need any MS Windows XP (including x64 edition), MS Windows Vista or any MS Windows Server. You also need latest Java RunTime installed. I have tested NetBeans 6.5 with both 32bit and 64bit (with both 32bit and 64bit JRE) Windows XP, and it works without a problem.

I will describe the process of using NetBeans for developing for WordPress, and also some interesting features this IDE has to offer.

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RC release had few bugs so here is the new version. Problem with PHP4 and scandir() function is solved. Problem with widget post title rendering, first comment disabled rating and rendering of post review stars are fixed. I have removed user guide from this release and you can download it from my blog so I can keed the plugin package smaller. Since I will be working on some new features that require some more jQuery, I have added jQuery.ui.datepicker code along with translations for all currently available languages in the plugin.

If more critical bugs are discovered, you can expect more such releases. Also, if you want you can use SVN from Google Code page to get latest version of development code to test it if you like.

The first development cycle is almost over. This release candidate introduce few new features, and announces some more changes that will be available in 1.0.0 stable release. At this point I had no time to update documentation, so if you are confused by some of the (new) options, please visit a forum and ask whatever you need to know.

I will try to go through all changes made for this release, and beleive me, the list is very extensive. For full changelog, you can check Google Code plugin page.

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Just a quick post about current development of GD Star Rating. I have been adding new things, but mostly I am focused on fixing reported bugs. And good news is that most of the reported bugs are fixed! Just to mention some of the most important:

1. invalid rendering postion for StarRater shortcode
2. XHTML validity problems
3. crashing WordPress rendering in some rare cases
4. invalid template initialization

If you have found more bugs, please report them in comments or on the forum. And if you want to test latest development snapshot, go to Google Code Project Page and get it from SVN or from Download page (0.9.9 Dev).

On monday I will release GD Star Rating 0.9.9 Release Candidate. And most likely for Halloween stable 1.0.0 will be released.