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PHP 5.2.3 Release Announcement

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.3. This release continues to improve the security and the stability of the 5.X branch as well as addressing two regressions introduced by the previous 5.2 releases. These regressions relate to the timeout handling over non-blocking SSL connections and the lack of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in certain conditions. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.3:

The key improvements of PHP 5.2.3 include:

For users upgrading from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1, an upgrade guide is available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.2.3.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.3, see the ChangeLog.

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