The PHP group has officially announced the availability of the final release of the PHP4 series for the language - PHP 4.4.9.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.9. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last PHP 4.4 release.

Issues corrected by this release include an upgrade to the PCRE version, a crash bug in imageloadfont and the open_basedir handling in the curl extension. You can download this latest release from downloads page on the PHP.net website.