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This is largely a bug-fix release. Tom Clift, of PaperCut print management software, kindly informed me of a few installation issues that my own tests didn’t find. The profusion of configuration options in PHP can make testing everything on a single server quite difficult.

This would be a good time for me to mention that I have the utmost respect for QA people. They deal with all sorts of minutiae that I am really glad not to have to handle, and I’m really glad they’re around. That said, I am not a QA person… and so I occasionally miss the sorts of stuff they’d catch.

1. It turns out Hummingbird depends on the CLI version of PHP, and the CGI version will not suffice. This requirement is now listed in the appropriate section of the Hummingbird page.
2. Not all PHP installations have output buffering turned on by default. The latest version of Hummingbird takes account for this.
3. Various problems that can occur with the data cache file are also now reported more gracefully.

Again, my thanks to Tom Clift for some very useful patches!

You can get the latest version of Hummingbird from the Hummingbird page on my site.

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