The PHP development team announces the release of the 4th beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 3 and cleans up some features.

PHP 5.5.0beta4 is shipped with some bug fixes. Here is the list:

• Fixed bug #64677, execution operator `` stealing surrounding arguments.
• Fixed bug #64342, ZipArchive::addFile() has to check for file existence.
• Fixed Windows x64 version of stream_socket_pair() and improved error handling.
• Remove curl stream wrappers

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

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta4 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Next step is Release Candidate. Our 1st RC is expected for May 9th.

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The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24. These releases fix about 10 bugs aswell as upgrading the bundled PCRE library. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.14.

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the release of the 3rd beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 2.

PHP 5.5.0beta3 is shipped with some bug fixes and improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

• Drop support for bison < 2.4 when building PHP from GIT source.
• Fixed bug #54567 (DateTimeZone serialize/unserialize)
• Fixed bug #64555 (foreach no longer copies keys if they are interned)
• Fixed bug #64578 (debug_backtrace in set_error_handler corrupts zend heap)

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

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Our next beta is expected for April 25th. RC should follow.

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The PHP development team announces the release of the second beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs from beta one that could prevent the release from compiling.

PHP 5.5.0beta2 is shipped with some bug fixes. Here is an incomplete list:

• Fixed a memoryleak when using the same variablename 2times in function declaration.
• Fixed a compilation fail with error: conflicting types for 'zendparse'
• Fixed Debug backtrace changed behavior since 5.4.10 or 5.4.11

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

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta2 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Our next beta is expected for April 11th.

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The PHP development team announces the release of the first beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release is the first to include the Zend OPCache. Please help our efforts to provide a stable PHP version and test this version carefully against several different applications, with Zend OPCache enabled and report any bug in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0beta1 is shipped with improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

• Added Zend Opcache extension (but disabled by ini setting),
• Added array_column function which returns a column in a multidimensional array,
• Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach,
• Added support for changing the process's title in CLI/CLI-Server SAPIs

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

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

This beta marks the beginning of the feature freeze. No new features will be added to PHP 5.5 after this point. Please, test and help us to roll out a stable release. Our next beta is planned for April 4th.

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