As announced on the main PHP.net site, the latest release candidate for the PHP 7.2.0 series has been made available for download: Php 7.2.0 RC3.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.0 RC3. This release is the third Release Candidate for 7.2.0. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system.

[...] For source downloads of PHP 7.2.0 Release Candidate 3 please visit the download page, Windows sources and binaries can be found at windows.php.net/qa/.

You can find out the changes that happened in the latest NEWS file and find out how to upgrade your installation in the UPGRADING guide.

The PHP.net site has officially announced the release of PHP 7.0.0 RC3 the latest Release Candidate for this upcoming major version. This is a development preview and is not intended for production use.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0 RC 3. This is the eighth pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system.

[...] This release provides a noticeable new Opcache feature which makes possible to move PHP code pages into the huge memory pages. It can be enabled with opcache.huge_code_page=1 in php.ini and can bring about 2% performance gain on supported platforms. Please help us to test this feature by enabling it and providing feedback.

They also list out several of the other features now included in the release such as:

• improved overall performance
• migrating some Fatal errors to Exceptions
• the combined comparison operator ("spaceship")
• scalar and return types
• anonymous classes

As always you can download this latest version from the QA downloads page or here for the Windows binaries. The next release (RC4) will be coming October 1st, so be sure and test out RC3 on your systems and code and report those bugs!

The PHP development group has released the latest Release Candidate for the PHP 5.5 series - Release Candidate 3. This is a development preview, so it's not to be used in production but all testing is appreciated.

To get the full changelog, please, check the NEWS file attached to the archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0RC3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. We were pleased if you could test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker. Thanks you helping us making PHP better.

Bugs fixed in this release include issues causing segfaults, buffer overflows and truncation of data when hashing with hash_pbkdf2.`

This new post on DynamicWebPages.de today has information about the latest release candidate for the PHP 5.1.x series - version 5.1.3RC3.

This new post on DynamicWebPages.de today has information about the latest release candidate for the PHP 5.1.x series - version 5.1.3RC3.