PHP 5.2.0 Released

ShaunC writes "The PHP Group and Zend have released PHP 5.2.0, and upgrades are encouraged. The 5.2.0 update offers several security fixes, including patches for a couple recently announced buffer overflows in input parsing. This release also includes a number of library upgrades, bug fixes, and default bundling of the popular JSON extension to help with AJAX development. See the full changelog for more details."

Re:What backwards compatibility has it broken?

[CopaceticOpus]

First of all, it's trivial to run two versions of PHP on the same server, and to use one version or the other on a per-directory or per-file basis. So there's no reason old code needs to stop being run if it's still useful.

Secondofly, the changes from back around 4.0 to where we are now with 5.2 are fundamentally huge, and they move PHP to a much more serious, professional class. Breaking backwards compatibility was worth it. It's sad that there has been so much resistance to change. Personally, these changes are the reason I now favor PHP as my language of choice for web development.