The first release candidate for PHP 5.2.1 is now available for
download. The source tarballs can be found here:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.1RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum:
cc6024531e3d4058e32cf740e2fe535f)
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.1RC1.tar.gz (md5sum:
bafcdff32bcaa564f65293c1c42d117e)
Win32 snapshots should be available shortly as well. The focus of
this release has been primarily stabilization with many bug fixes and
very features being added, so a short release cycle is anticipated.
Please try this release out on your code and systems and let us know
if you come across any problems, especially regressions from the
previous 5.X releases. Given that we've started a release cycle I'd
like to ask all developers to refrain from making major changes to
the code, only applying bug fixes. The two exceptions to this rule
are currently two pending patches, that are being reviewed in
relation to the Zend engine (Memory manager tweak and Matt's
optimizations).
Ilia Alshanetsky
