> The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP
> 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes
> a large number of new features and bug fixes.

> The key features of PHP 5.3.0 include:

>     * Support for namespaces
>     * Late static binding
>     * Lambda Functions and Closures
>     * Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label
> (limited goto), __callStatic()
>     * Under the hood performance improvements
>     * Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
>     * Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
>     * Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries
> as well as portability to other supported platforms
>     * More consistent float rounding
>     * Deprecation notices are now handled via E_DEPRECATED (part of E_ALL)
> instead of the E_STRICT error level
>     * Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini
> parsing in general)
>     * New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo,
> ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
>     * Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to:
> ext/openssl, ext/spl and ext/date

> This release also drops several extensions and unifies the usage of
> internal APIs. Users should be aware of the following known backwards
> compatibility breaks:

>     * Parameter parsing API unification will cause some functions to behave
> more or less strict when it comes to type juggling
>     * Removed the following extensions: ext/mhash (see ext/hash), ext/msql,
> ext/pspell (see ext/enchant), ext/sybase (see ext/sybase_ct)
>     * Moved the following extensions to PECL: ext/ming, ext/fbsql,
> ext/ncurses, ext/fdf
>     * Removed zend.ze1_compatibility_mode

> For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here,
> detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.

> For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.0, see the ChangeLog.
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