Huzzah! The final release candidate of 5.2.0, RC4 is out, which means the final release is just around the corner. The tarballs can be found here: http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC4.tar.bz2 (71456d89419e5b67c59aca713a3c86f4) http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC4.tar.gz (41c5ac4a378266b17a7fde9565325cb9) Given that this is a final release, this is the last chance to identify major issues or regressions. So, please test your code against this release to make sure that everything is working, and if not, let us know.

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.

I think we've set a new PHP release record today, 3 releases in one day, PHP 5.1.5, 4.4.4 and 5.2.0RC2. The first two are aimed at addressing a series of security faults that were discovered in stable branches. The good thing is that the issues found are mostly local exploits, so upgrading should definitely be a priority to shared hosting providers or multi-user PHP systems. That said, I would still recommend that all users of PHP consider upgrading their installs to the relevant releases. For information about the exploits themselves go to php.net The tar balls and win32 binaries for the releases can be found here for PHP 5.1.5 and PHP 4.4.4. As far as PHP 5.2.0RC2, this is an intermediate release,which brings us one step closer to the final release, hopefully sometime in September. As always, I'd like to ask everyone to give this release a try and see if your code runs on it or not and provide the PHP Development team with feedback. We are particularly interested in any new bugs, regression or dro...

A new version of FUDforum is on the release path. This release is largely a feature addition release with a fair quantity of new functionality being added. That said there were a few bug fixes sprinkled in between as well. The upgrade and installer can be downloaded from here: Installer Download Upgrade Script The main features of the new release include the following: Added an option that enabled admins and moderators to edit topic ratings. Added account moderators, who can approve new accounts as well as manage existing users. Added ability to display flags beside user names based on IP geo-location. Added an option of adding "permanent" announcements. To see details of all the changes see the release announcement.

I've just completed the upgraded of the bundled libsqlite in pdo driver from a fairly antiquated 3.2.8 to the latest 3.3.7. Yet, another reason to upgrade to 5.2.0 when it comes it ;-)