Download PHP 4.2.0

ajbu writes to us that a new version of PHP has been released. In version 4.2.0 is quite a bit renewedthe summary of which can be read here:

• External variables (from the environment, the HTTP request, cookies or the web server) are no longer registered as global variables
• Overhaul of the sockets extension
• Highly improved performance with file uploads
• The satellite and mailparse extensions were moved to PECL and are no longer bundled with the official PHP release
• The posix extension has been cleaned up
• iconv handling has been improved
• Output buffering support, which was introduced in PHP 4.1.0 has been stabilized
• Improved performance and stability of the domxml extension
• New multibyte regular expression support
• LOTS of fixes and new functions