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David
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Post subject: PHP 5.3.0 Released
 Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:32 AM PST
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The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
The key features of PHP 5.3.0 include:
* Support for namespaces
* Late static binding
* Lambda Functions and Closures
* Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()
* Under the hood performance improvements
* Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
* Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
* Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries as well as portability to other supported platforms
* More consistent float rounding
* Deprecation notices are now handled via E_DEPRECATED (part of E_ALL) instead of the E_STRICT error level
* Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini parsing in general)
* New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo, ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
* Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to: ext/openssl, ext/spl and ext/date
This release also drops several extensions and unifies the usage of internal APIs. Users should be aware of the following known backwards compatibility breaks:
* Parameter parsing API unification will cause some functions to behave more or less strict when it comes to type juggling
* Removed the following extensions: ext/mhash (see ext/hash), ext/msql, ext/pspell (see ext/enchant), ext/sybase (see ext/sybase_ct)
* Moved the following extensions to PECL: ext/ming, ext/fbsql, ext/ncurses, ext/fdf
* Removed zend.ze1_compatibility_mode
For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available at http://us.php.net/migration53, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.0, see the ChangeLog at http://us3.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.0. |
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