The PHP development team has officially released PHP 5.4.0 RC5, the latest (and the second to last) release candidate for the next major version of the language.

The PHP development team announces the 5th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

Bugs fixed in this version include a few to the Core, SAPI/CLI SAPI, PHP-FPM support and improvements to the session extension. Download and test out this latest version on your systems - the more feedback they receive the better! You can report issues you might find on the PHP bug tracker.