Download PHP 4.3.0 RC2

PHP is ready for version 4.3.0 RC2 and is available for Windows and if source† Due to the lack of the changelog, below is a piece from the todo-list:

Things to do or at least think about doing in the future. Name in
parenthesis means that person has taken on this project.

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For PHP 4.3.0:
* Allow foreach ($array as $k => &$val) syntax. right now we cannot
traverse an array without copying each element.
* Allow foreach ($array as $k => list($a, $b)) syntax for multi
dimensional array.
* Look at replacing c-lib call tolower().
* Make hash API functions work with HASH_OF() to save time.
* Allow to set a default value for call-by-reference parameters.
eg: function hello (&$pallo = NULL) ” rel=”external”>
* Disallow function(method) redefinition in class.
* Add configure test to determine if dlsym() requires underscore and set
DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE accordingly. Perl and zsh have it in configure,
for example. (DONE?)

For PHP 5.0.0:
* Native large number support (probably with GNU GMP)
* Constify APIs. Right now, many functions leave parameters untouched,
but don’t declare those as const. This makes interaction with other
interfaces difficult which pass const parameters to us.

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For PHP 4.3.0:
* Add aliases to functions to conform to new naming conventions, eg
str_to_upper().
*Make all extensions thread-safe.
* Make everything on the language-level independent of your locale
settings.
* Change PHP error messages, so that they point to pages or sections
in the PHP Manual.
* Make sure that all ZTS globals get destroyed. Most ts_allocate_id()
calls should have a dtor entry.
* Activate all extensions by default that don’t rely on external
dependencies. (eg ftp) (DONE?)
* on some platforms unimplemented function will just do nothing
(eg symlink) they should print a warning or not even be defined!
(DONE ?)
* Use arg_separator.input to implode args in the CGI sapi extension
and arg_separator.input to explode in php_build_argv(). (DONE?)
* Implement flush feature suitable for nested output buffers.