Hi, The second alpha for 5.6.0 was just released and can be downloaded from: http://downloads.php.net/tyrael The Windows binaries are available at http://windows.php.net/qa/ This release includes a couple of new features, such as the power operator, peer certificate verification by default and the changes about the effect of the default_charset ini setting. Please test it carefully, and report any bugs in the bug system. Alpha 3 will be tagged on Tuesday 26th and release on Thursday 27th. Regards, Julien Pauli and Ferenc Kovacs