The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0alpha2. This release adds new features and fix some bugs from alpha1. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) :

• Support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions,
• Systemtap support by enabling systemtap compatible dtrace probes on linux,
• Optimized access to temporary and compiled VM variables. 8% less memory reads.

Please, note that this alpha version also introduces the ext/mysql depreciation.

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Thank you for helping us making PHP better.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19. These releases fix over 15 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.9, or at least 5.3.19.

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0alpha1. This release marks the beginning of the PHP 5.5.0 release cycle. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 comes with new features such as (incomplete list) :

• support for Generators,
• a new password hashing API,
• support for finally in try/catch blocks
• support for list() in foreach,
• constant array/string dereferencing,
• ext/intl improvement.

We also dropped support for Windows XP and 2003.

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Thank you for helping us making PHP better.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.8 and PHP 5.3.18. These releases fix over 20 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.8, or at least 5.3.18.

Key enhancements in these releases include:

• Fixed bug #63111 (is_callable() lies for abstract static method)
• Fixed bug #61442 (exception threw in __autoload can not be catched)

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.8 and PHP 5.3.18 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.