# PHP 5.2.1RC2 Released

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/27261
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- Started by Ilia Alshanetsky on 2007-01-05T00:18:21+00:00
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## #27261 — Ilia Alshanetsky — 2007-01-05T00:18:21+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/27261#27261

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

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## #27288 — Lukas Kahwe Smith — 2007-01-05T20:38:13+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/27261#27288 · In reply to: #27261

Hi,

while on the train I tried to strat up 5.2.0RC2 on windows and ended up 
with Apache complaining about the pdo, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite and sqlite
extensions during the load process. I will try to investigate further 
tomorrow.

regards,
Lukas