PHP 5.3.8 released

From the PHP Internals mailing list sent @ 12:08 EDT

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.8. This release fixes two issues introduced in
the PHP 5.3.7 release:

  • Fixed bug #55439 (crypt() returns only the salt for MD5)
  • Reverted a change in timeout handling restoring PHP 5.3.6
    behavior, which caused mysqlnd SSL connections to hang (Bug
    #55283).

All PHP users should note that the PHP 5.2 series is NOT supported
anymore. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.8.

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Johannes Schlüter
PHP 5.3 Release Master

From here on out one little service to the community I will try to keep up with is echoing the release notes from the PHP list and website.