This is good to hear that PHP 5.2.7 is released last week. PHP 5.3 alpha 3 is released as well at the same time. Actually this release has taken more than 6 months after it's last stable release of 5.2.6 version. But it's better later than never. I have come across some blogs archives indicating dull future of PHP in coming year, but this slow and steady progress confirms that PHP elephant is here to stay, and there are many other blogs out there which indicates that too.
This release is majorly bug-fix release consisting more than 100 fixes; you can see change log here.
Anyway I believe in this world where IT is mandatory to run your business and to hold the backbon; everyone wants it cheap and LAMP does that well..!
BTW Wampserver team is damn fast in building their packages and this time they came out with PHP 5.2.7 + Apache 2.2.10 + MySQL 5.1.30 just next day of PHP 5.2.7's release. So enthusiastic developers can get their hands on with latest of all 3 of them. Download Wampserver 2.0e here.
#1 by Loïc Hoguin on December 7, 2008 - 9:33 pm
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Beware of a possible issue with PHP 5.2.7: http://www.macvicar.net/blog/2008/12/critical-bug-in-php-527.html (Disclaimer: I haven’t tried it).
#2 by Dharmavirsinh Jhala on December 7, 2008 - 11:36 pm
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Thanks Loïc for letting us know about it.
#3 by Kunoichi on December 8, 2008 - 1:45 pm
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The thing was released and hours later they say there is a bug..great.
#4 by Ian on December 9, 2008 - 12:31 am
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And it’s gone as quick as it came:
http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-07-1
#5 by Dharmavirsinh Jhala on January 10, 2009 - 7:28 pm
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BTW as I am writing this comment here XAMPP 1.7.0 is out with latest versions of all ingredients which are as following:
Apache HTTPD 2.2.11, MySQL 5.1.30, PHP 5.2.8 + Switch, Openssl 0.9.8i, phpMyAdmin 3.1.1, XAMPP Control Panel 2.5, Webalizer 2.01-10, Mercury Mail Transport System v4.52, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.29, SQLite 2.8.15, ADODB 4.98, Zend Optimizer 3.3.0, XAMPP Security, Ming.