The PHP.net project is proud to announce the official release of PHP 5.3!

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.

You can download this latest release from the downloads page from the main PHP.net site or check out the Changelog for the full list of changes.