PHP 5.3.7RC1 Released for Testing

Hello! You are receiving this email because your project has been selected 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. If you do not want to receive these heads-up emails, please reply to me and Ilia personally and we will remove you from the list; but, we hope that you want to actively help us making PHP a better and more stable tool. The first release candidate for 5.3.7 was just released and can be downloaded from this location: http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.7RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum: 295a457505049cc75d723560715be5d6) http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.7RC1.tar.gz (md5sum: 4fd555292ea0a1bc3acd1d3ad4c98c27) The Windows binaries are available at: http://windows.php.net/qa/ Please try these release candidates against your code and let us know if any regressions should you find any. Proper testing would be extremely helpful. This is the first step in the release process of this versions and goal is to have an additional RC within two weeks. Please make us aware of critical issues. To find out what was changed since the last release please refer to the NEWS file found within the archive or on http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/tags/php_5_3_4RC1/NEWS?revision=HEAD&view=markup PLEASE NOTE: The PHP Bug tracker is currently not available. In case you find a critical issue don't hesitate to send me a note. If the issue can't wait till bugs.php.net is operational again you can also inform <mailto:internals@lists.php.net>. In case your report is security related please contact <mailto:security@php.net>. Windows users please mind that we don't provide VS6 builds anymore since PHP 5.3.6. When using the openssl extension please mind a known regression which might lead to a performance degression. This regression will be fixed with RC2 and the final release. In case you think that other projects should also receive this kinds of emails, please let me know privately, and I will add them to the list of projects to contact. Best Regards, Johannes Schlüter PHP 5.3 Release Master