Johannes Schluter recommends that, this Easter, you not only enjoy the holiday and hunt some eggs but also do a little bug hunting at the same time:

Around Easter there are different holidays, in Germany for instance Friday and Monday are holidays. This gives you some time without annoying customers and colleagues asking you to do stuff. So what could you PHP geeks do when getting bored? - A good idea is to test PHP development snapshots.

The PHP group has put out the second release candidate for PHP 5.2.6 and is looking for a few good testers to help them find whatever issues may lie deep in its code. Accoring to Johannes, though, not much should be broken this time. It's PHP 5.3 everyone should really watch out for...

So grab a snapshot and get testing!

In conjunction with this other post, Ilian Alshantesky has posted his own announcement about the latest Release Candidate from the PHP group - PHP 5.2.2 RC2.

Since there were no major regressions in RC1 and RC2 only resolved pre-existing issues the goal is to proceed with the final release next Thursday. To make sure that the release is solid and does not break any existing code I would like ask everyone to test it against their code to see if everything still works as expected. If you identify any new issues since 5.2.1, please let me know.

Here's the downloads:

• http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.2RC2.tar.bz2
• http://downloads.php.net/edink/php-5.2.2RC2-Win32.zip