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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:13:44 -0500
Subject: PHP 5.2.1RC2 Released
From: ilia@ilia.ws (Ilia Alshanetsky)

The 2nd release candidate for PHP 5.2.1 is now available for  
download. The tarballs can be found here:

http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.1RC2.tar.bz2  
(cc6024531e3d4058e32cf740e2fe535f)
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.1RC2.tar.gz  
(3f89c31687762a39f1360b380dd315b4)

and the Win32 binaries will be available in short order.

Since the last release over 30 different bug fixes were made and the  
two pending patches relating to is_numeric_string() optimization and  
internal heap protection for the Zend Engine allocator were added.  
Another important change was the fact  that the memory limit is now  
always enabled and to accommodate this change the default limit value  
was raised to 128 megabytes to avoid script breakage. We do not  
anticipate any regressions to be introduced by this RC, but I would  
still like to ask everyone to take a few minutes and test it against  
their code base. If you come across any issues please report them at  
http://bugs.php.net/.

With this release we are nearing the final stretch is the release  
cycle, so I'd like to ask all developers to refrain from making any  
commits to the 5.2 tree that are not bug fixes. If all goes well the  
final RC (RC3) will be available in 2 weeks to be shortly followed by  
the final release.

Ilia