The first release candidate of PHP 5.2.1 scheduled for late January is now available for download. The tarballs can be found here:
php-5.2.1RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum: cc6024531e3d4058e32cf740e2fe535f)
php-5.2.1RC1.tar.gz (md5sum: bafcdff32bcaa564f65293c1c42d117e)
For win32 users binaries are available courtesy of
Edin
php-5.2.1RC1-Win32.zip (md5sum: 00d6833308931fa58581574b8d364e12)
php-debug-pack-5.2.1RC1-Win32.zip (md5sum: ac86975945193455658d85921d835e60)
This release is primarily aimed at improving the stability of the language and finalization of features introduced in 5.2.0. There are over 70 different bug fixes, a great deal of performance improvements for Windows users, corrections to the memory manager and the improvement in the filter functionality. I'd like to ask everyone to try this release out and let us know if you come across any issues and/or regressions.