NukeCops - PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 Released

PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 Released! ...the first Release Candidate of PHP 5 is finally here! The move from Beta stage to RC stage means that PHP 5 is now feature complete, and is quite stable - stable enough for everyone to start playing with. Note that it is still not recommended for mission-critical use....see the full changelog here and download here

Some of the more major changes include:

PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2. For a list of Zend Engine 2 changes, please visit this webpage;

XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (see xmlsoft.org);

SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website. ;