The Official End to PHP 5.2

Posted on December 25th, 2010 by Sam

On December 16th the PHP development team announced the release of PHP 5.2.16 as the end of support for PHP 5.2; and encouraging developers to upgrade source code to PHP 5.3. With official support no longer available for 5.2, how long will it take before the mass of hosting providers transition to PHP 5.3? If [...]

What’s new in PHP 5.3

Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Sam

With PHP 5.3 slated for release near the end of April (Q1 2009), it’s time to start looking at the new improvements being implemented. Version 5.3 was originally known as “PHP 6 without Unicode support”, but there are many new features being implemented in this release that have been on the development table for a [...]

Announcing the Release of PHP 5.3 Candidate 1

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Sam

The latest release of PHP (5.3.0RC1) is the final phase in a major improvement in the 5.X series. The PHP 5.3.X will eventually obsolete the 5.2.X branch of PHP; all users, primarily those using earlier version 5 releases, are advised to test this release for backwards compatibility. There is an upgrading guide available detailing the [...]

PHP 5.2.7 removed from distribution

Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Sam

On December 7th, only days after the release of PHP 5.2.7, PHP.net issued a notice that the 5.2.7 release was no longer available due to a major bug that affects security; requesting a degrade to the 5.2.6 version temporarily. On the 8th, they had the new PHP 5.2.8 release where they explained the fix. As [...]

PHP 5.3 alpha3 now released

Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Sam

After a few years of PHP version 5, the developers have released the final stage of the 5.3 testing. This release is for development review not for production. According to the release plan, a stable release is expected sometime around the end of Q1 2009. Excerpt from PHP.net 04-Dec-2008 news: Several new features have already [...]