Ilia Alshanetsky has posted an announcement about the release of the latest Release Candidate for the PHP 5.2.9 series - PHP 5.2.9RC1.

I was not planning on 5.2.9 before 5.3 was going to come out, but we've accumulated a fairly high number of bug fixes and a couple of issues with new version of libxml and PHP indicate we need another 5.2 release, so here we are. The release cycle should be pretty quick (I hope) and if all goes well the final will be released before the month is out.

You can download this latest release here (Windows release here). If you want to find out how you can help to test this Release Candidate, check out this page on the PHP QA site.