<PHP 5.3.0 Release ⁄ >

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



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