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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:11:43 +0200
Cc: Nuno Lopes <nlopess@php.net>
Subject: 5.3.0RC3
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)

Aloha,

Well we have waited long enough for a fix for re2c, but Johannes and I =20=

(based on Scott's advice) have now decided that we can live with the =20
current hack that simply reverts to PHP 5.2 behavior (slower parsing, =20=

only relevant for people not using a byte code cache) when re2c fails =20=

to handle things. Derick is looking into this issue, so we might have =20=

a fix in time.

As such I am only aware of the following critical issues:
1) apply the integer parsing patch and fix the relevant tests (Please, =20=

for the love of god, someone take care of this already)
2) random crashes in certain large scripts (Derick and hopefully =20
Dmitry are looking into that)
3) missing phar CLI tool on windows (Greg are you looking into this?)
4) missing firebird and gmp extensions on windows (Pierre how are =20
things looking here?)
5) Upgrading README and general documentation updating (Philip how are =20=

things looking there?)

There are some other todo's on the wiki:
http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53#rc3

- Fix static build of extension on windows when static is the default =20=

and =96enable-snapshot-build is used (Pierre)
- opendir() fails on Windows directories with parent directory =20
unaccessible (Pierre)
- very important for APC, about caching (stat cache or other) on win/=20
fcgi (Pierre)
- Add E_DEPRECATED if session.bug_compat_42/warn is On (already =20
removed in HEAD) (Kalle)
- update short_open_tag descriptions in php.ini-* as per this (Philip)

Would be nice obviously to get those fixed too.

We will release RC3 Thursday next week aka June 11th.
We will go into commit freeze on the evening of the 8th. However =20
please try to get things in by the 5th as we are hoping that RC3 could =20=

become the golden stable release for 5.3.0. Lets not have some =20
seemingly harmless commit break things. It will result in either the =20
release date for RC3 slipping or having to do an RC4, both resulting =20
in a delayed final release.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org