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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:53:15 +0400
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Subject: Re: 5.3.0 stable release
From: dmda@yandex.ru ("jvlad")

> Hi,
>
> It looks like nothing critical has popped up since RC4.
> So it looks like we will be sending the final stable release to the 
> mirrors next Wednesday and announce the release on Thursday barring  any 
> critical issues emerging in the next days. In the mean time test  test 
> test. If issues are found/fixed please send the patches to  internals for 
> review. Based on the importance and risk of the patch  will then be 
> applied, however the next 2 days should really be focused  on testing to 
> make sure we do not have critical issues, minor issues  can always be 
> fixed in 5.3.1 and we better release with known minor  issues than big 
> unknown issues caused by a last minute fix.
>
> Another focus area should be the migration guide and other  documentation 
> updates:
> http://docs.php.net/migration53
>
> regards,
> Johannes and Lukas
>

Johannes and Lukas,

Did you hear about crashes under Solaris and MacOSX, and compiler failures 
under all *BSD systems?
They were posted against RC3 and the problems are still the same in RC4.
Affected systems: Solaris 8, FreeBSD 6, NetBSD 3, OpenBSD 4, MacOSX/Darwin 
(unknown, per http://darkrainfall.org/php_test_results_valgrind.txt)
As the VERY least, you may want to mention gcc version that the sources are 
compatible with and platforms the resulted binaries won't run.