The 2nd release candidate for PHP 5.2.1 is now available for download. The tarballs can be found here:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.1RC2.tar.bz2 (cc6024531e3d4058e32cf740e2fe535f)
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.1RC2.tar.gz (3f89c31687762a39f1360b380dd315b4)
Since the last release over 30 different bug fixes were made and the two pending patches relating to is_numeric_string() optimization and internal heap protection for the Zend Engine allocator were added. Another important change was the fact that the memory limit is now always enabled and to accommodate this change the default limit value was raised to 128 megabytes to avoid script breakage. We do not anticipate any regressions to be introduced by this RC, but I would still like to ask everyone to take a few minutes and test it against their code base. If you come across any issues report them via
http://bugs.php.net/ or reply to this blog post.