PHP 5.3 alpha1 released!

NinethSense — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:17:00 GMT

There have been a great number of other additions and improvements, but here is a short overview of the most important changes:

Namespaces (documentation maybe out dated)
Late static binding and __callStatic
Lambda functions and closures
Addition of the intl, phar (phar is scheduled for some more work a head of alpha2), fileinfo and sqlite3 extensions
Optional cyclic garbage collection
Optional support for the MySQLnd replacement driver for libmysql
Windows older than Windows 2000 (Windows 98, NT4, etc.) are not supported anymore (details)
New syntax features like NOWDOC, limited GOTO, ternary short cut "?:"

Check php.net for more details.

Kidoos : 5.3