PHP 5.3.0RC2 testing

Hello! You are receiving this email because your project has been selected or subscribed yourself to take part in a new effort by the PHP QA Team to make sure that your project still works with PHP versions to-be- released. With this we hope to make sure that you are either aware of things that might break, or to make sure we don't introduce any strange regressions. With this effort we hope to build a better relationship between the PHP Team and the major projects. The second release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 was just released and can be downloaded from: http://downloads.php.net/johannes (*nix sources) http://windows.php.net/qa (windows binaries) This second release candidate focused on bug fixes and stability improvements and we hope to only require minimal changes ahead of the next release. Many, but not all, of the new features are already integrated in the official documentation on php.net. Please not that we are aware of minor issues including that we still want to fix (though most of them have also affected PHP 5.2) and a crash bug in affecting source files with a size of exact 8k (See Bug #48934). Expect an RC3 in 2-3 weeks time, though for most users there will not be a noticeable change meaning that now is the time to start doing the final testing of PHP 5.3.0 before it gets released with any unnecessary incompatibilities with your project. Some additional links to get started: http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/NEWS?view=markup&pathrev=PHP_5_3 http://wiki.php.net/doc/scratchpad/upgrade/53 Best Regards, Lukas and Johannes PHP 5.3 Release Managers