Ilia Alshanetsky has officially announced that the latest release candidate for the PHP 5.2.5 series (RC1) has been posted and is ready to test.

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.

There's a note over on the main PHP site, that the release of the latest version in the PHP 5.1.x series has been posted - PHP 5.1.2.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.2. This release combines small feature enhancements with a fair number of bug fixes and addresses three security issues. All PHP 5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.

Some of the larger changes in this new version include: "HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in ext/session and in the header() function", "Upgraded OCI8 extension", and "Over 85 various bug fixes".

So, what are you waiting for? Get over and upgrade now!