The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.2.16. This release marks the end of support for
PHP 5.2. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.
This release focuses on addressing a regression in open_basedir
implementation introduced in 5.2.15 in addition to fixing a crash
inside PDO::pgsql on data retrieval when the server is down. All users
who have upgraded to 5.2.15 and are utilizing open_basedir are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to 5.2.16 or 5.3.4.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.16, see the ChangeLog on
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.16. For source downloads please
visit our downloads page on http://php.net/downloads.php, Windows
binaries can be found on http://windows.php.net/download/.
Ilia Alshanetsky
5.2 Release Master