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The third and possibly the final release candidate of PHP 5.2.0 is now available for download.

http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC3.tar.bz2 (79a9e8ecd8edcfcc033bbd49967ad47a)
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC3.tar.gz (735c8f0385483afc732c09c5bb4257a3)

The number of changes are fairly small, which is always good when nearing the final release, but there were 2 important fixes that need attention. One is fix for a memory corruption in the new memory manager, something that could've caused random, hard to reproduce crashes. The second was a fix in the session extension's shutdown order, which caused problems when native objects (objects created by other PHP extensions) were stored inside $_SESSION.

Please try this release and give you feedback via qa mailing list or via this blog, either way we'd like to hear how this release works with your code.