Jordi Gironés

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.6 and PHP 5.3.16. These releases fix over 20 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.6, or at least 5.3.16.

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.6 and PHP 5.3.16 please visit our downloads page,
Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.
The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

Fuente: PHP 5.4.6 and PHP 5.3.16 released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of
PHP 5.5.0alpha1. This release marks the beginning of the PHP 5.5.0 release cycle.
All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully,
and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 comes with new features such as (incomplete list) :

• support for Generators,
• a new password hashing API,
• support for finally in try/catch blocks
• support for list() in foreach,
• constant array/string dereferencing,
• ext/intl improvement.

We also dropped support for Windows XP and 2003.

You can read the full list of changes in the
NEWS file contained
in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 please visit
the download page, Windows binaries
can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Thank you for helping us making PHP better.

Fuente: PHP 5.5.0 Alpha1 released

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of
PHP 5.5.0alpha2. This release adds new features and fix some bugs from alpha1.
All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully,
and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) :

• Support for using empty() on the result of function calls and
  other expressions,
• Systemtap support by enabling systemtap compatible dtrace probes on
  linux,
• Optimized access to temporary and compiled VM variables.
  8% less memory reads.

Please, note that this alpha version also introduces the ext/mysql depreciation.

You can read the full list of changes in the
NEWS file contained
in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 please visit
the download page, Windows binaries
can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Thank you for helping us making PHP better.

Fuente: PHP 5.5.0 Alpha2 released

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.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 5th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as
a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should
be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

We got a lot of feedback that helped us to improve the upcoming
PHP version. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in
order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave
as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate
against your code base and report any problems that you encounter
to the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be
found at NEWS

The next and probably last release candidate will be released in 14 days.

Fuente: PHP 5.4.0 RC5 released

The PHP development team announces the 6th
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.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 6th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as
a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should
be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The 6th release candidate focused on improving traits. Please test
them carefully and help us to identify bugs in
order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave
as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate
against your code base and report any problems that you encounter
to the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be
found at NEWS

The next candidate will be released on Feb 2.

Fuente: PHP 5.4.0 RC6 released

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP
5.4.0.
This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series, which includes a
large number of new features and bug fixes.

Some of the key new features include:
traits,
a shortened array syntax,

a built-in webserver for testing purposes
and more. PHP 5.4.0 significantly improves performance, memory footprint and fixes over
100 bugs.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.3 there is a
migration guide
available here, detailing the changes between those
releases and PHP 5.4.0.

Further details about the
PHP 5.4.0 release
can be found in the
release announcement,
and the full list of changes are available in the
ChangeLog.

Please note that it may take a while until the release is available
on all mirrors.

Fuente: PHP 5.4.0 released!

The PHP development team would like to announce the 2nd
release candidate of PHP 5.4.1.
Windows binaries can be downloaded from the
Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

This is the 2nd release candidate. The release candidate phase is
intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.
The release candidate fixes a critical issue when using the internal
classes in multiple threads.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be
found in the
NEWS
file.

Please help us to identify
bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave
as expected by taking the time to test this release candidate against
your code base and reporting any problems that you encounter to
the QA mailing list and/or
the PHP bug tracker.

PHP 5.4.1 final will be released on April 26.

Fuente: PHP 5.4.1RC2 Released for Testing