The PHP development team announces the availability of the first release candidate of PHP 5.5. This release fixes some bugs as well as some possible leaks from our last beta. This is a development preview - do not use it in production!

Some of the more major changes in this release include an update to the FPM SAPI for QUERY_STRING, a fix for a build issue with libgd, bugs in SNMP and a problem with stream_select on Windows x64 systems. You can find the full list of changes in the NEWS file. Please download and test (Windows binaries here) this latest release to help the development team find issues and move along with the PHP 5.5.x releases.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the first release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. [...] This is the first release candidate. No new features will be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.

Major changes include class member access on instantiation, array to string conversion now throws a notice and bugs fixes/improvements to Core and other extensions. For a complete list, check out the NEWS file. Download this latest release]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:36:51 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6041 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6041 DynamicWebPages.de has a quick post about the latest release for the PHP 4.4.x series today - the release canidate for PHP 4.4.4RC1.

Derick Rethans, the release manager for the version 4 series of PHP, posted the latest release candidate for PHP 4.4.4 for testing. This RC fixes some of the same security issues that lead to the first release candidate for PHP 5.1.5 being created.