Antony Dovgal has pointed out the updated packages that have been released to the snaps.php.net website by Derick Rethans.

He also includes a list of things that will be included in this upcoming release like:

• Namespaces
• Late static binding
• Accessing static members through $foo::myFunc()
• Improved OpenSSL extension
• PCRE 7.4

Grab your copy of these latest snapshots from the snaps website and get to testing them on your system to see what happens before the release.