The first release candidates of 5.3.9 was just released for testing and can be downloaded here: http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.9RC1.tar.bz2 (md5sum: 5e8564008606edfab6a81137c1daf354) The windows binaries are available at: http://windows.php.net/qa/ This is the first step in the release process of this versions and goal is having a 2nd RC two weeks from now. Majority of the changes are of the "bug fix" variety. One important change is for bug #55475 [1] where PHP 5.3.7 changed the behavior of is_a(). 5.3.9 will revert the behavior. Please ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected! Please test this RC against your code base and report any problems you encounter or successful tests you've run. Johannes Schlüter PHP 5.3 Release Master [1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php