# PHP 5.3.0beta1

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- Started by johannes@php.net on 2009-01-29T11:34:55+00:00
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## #42876 — johannes@php.net — 2009-01-29T11:34:55+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/42876#42876

Hi,

we have packaged PHP 5.3.0beta1. Source tarballs can be found at 

   http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.0beta1.tar.bz2
   ac16e56bf6a4b37ff35d9bc061063a9
   http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.0beta1.tar.gz
   71c6c06087cfa9c38567b050d00bcabf

Windows binary builds on

   http://windows.php.net/qa/

Please test it carefully, and report any bugs in the bug system, but  
only if you have a short reproducable test case.

The biggest change is dropping of OO functionality in closures as full
OO support for closures is planed for a later release than PHP 5.3.0.
See http://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures/removal-of-this

This release marks the begin of a feature freeze and bug fix only phase.
If in doubt whether your change is a bugfix please run it by Lukas and
me.

Developers please go through the bug database we have tons of open bugs.
Additionally we have quite a bunch tests failing on non-Linux systems.
Please check whether that are real bugs or system defendant tests.

Users: Now it's certainly the time to check your applications and help
us to identify problems before stable release is done!

Lukas and Johannes