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PHP 5.3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the phffp-phffp-phffp dept.

Sudheer writes "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. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more."

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  1. Re:new features in php 5.3 by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can also read the official release announcement instead of some random guy's blog.

    http://php.net/releases/5_3_0.php

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