The PHP Group has released PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 and PHP 4.3.4 RC3

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we recommend for PHP users to try it. PHP 5 is still not ready for production use!

Some of the more major changes include:

* PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2.
* XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
* SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website.
* A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
* Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.

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PHP 4.3.4 RC3

PHP 4.3.4RC3 has been released for testing. This release candidate is hopefully the final release candidate prior to the 4.3.4 release and should be very stable. Please test this release as much as possible, so that any remaining issues can be uncovered and resolved prior to the final release. Users of the mbstring extension are especially encouraged to try and test this release candidate as the underlying library used by mbstring was changed.

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