The PHP development group has officially released the latest beta in in the PHP 5.6.x series - PHP 5.6.0beta2. This is a development release and should not be used in production.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0beta2. As we entered the feature freeze with beta1, this release is almost exclusively a bugfix-only release. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

Among the new features added in this new beta are things like the watchpoint support for phpdbg and a new fetching mode for mysqlnd which uses less memory but implies more memory copy. For more information about the other changes included in this release, check out the evolving documentation or the full NEWS file. You can download this beta from the QA download page (or for the Windows users, here).