[Ben]

Wie Ilia Alshanetsky in seinem Blog schreibt ist der erste release candidate von PHP 5.2.1 zum Download verfügbar.

Inhaltlich passiert nichts Weltbewegendes

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.

Downloads: http://downloads.php.net/ilia/

Viel Spaß beim Austesten.

[Ben]

Der RC 2 wurde veröffentlicht:
http://ilia.ws/archives/151-5.2.1RC2...r-Testing.html

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.

Kurz darauf ist auch der RC 1 für PHP 4.4.5 veröffentlicht worden:
http://derickrethans.nl/php_445rc1_a...or_testing.php

As PHP 4.4 is just in maintenance mode, there are no new features. This release however does address over 20 bugs.

[Ben]

Jetzt wurde auch der dritte RC veröffentlicht:
http://ilia.ws/archives/156-5.2.1-RC...r-testing.html

Since the last release, there are over 20 different bug fixes resolving some annoying engine issues such as the tempval leak inside foreach().

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Depending on the stability of this release it may either be followed by a final release or another RC, therefor your feedback is critical to determining whether or not the code is stable enough to warrant the 5.2.1 final.

[Ben]

Und der vierte release candidate
http://ilia.ws/archives/158-PHP-5.2.1RC4-Released!.html

This release fixes another dozen or so bugs since the last release and from the given feedback looks to be regression free.

Sollte dann wohl der letzte RC gewesen sein.