This RC includes a fair number of fixes since our last release and predominantly works on improving the stability of the 5.2 tree as well as including a small number of minor security fixes. I'd like to ask everyone to test this release against your code and setups, we are aiming for a quick release cycle and user feedback is critical for a successful release.

You can download this latest version here.

All of the php developer employment statistics point to a prosperous year for those that have PHP in their arsenal of programming knowledge. [...] Now with a conjecture that is showing high promise is on the horizon, PHP developers are sitting in good standing on the job market.

There's a bit of a graph showing the decline of the Java developer and the slight advantage PHP is gaining over ASP.Net currently. Their assumption is that, with a period of steadiness that PHP is seeing right now, there will be an upturn in the PHP trend (as is usually the case).