PHP 5.2.1RC2 Released

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 Alshanetsky
5.2 Release Master