PHP 5.3 release

It's about time, PHP 5.3 is about to be released and with it a lot of new features are introduced into the language. Those of you who have tested the early snapshots and release candidates know of what I'm speaking. Namespaces, lambda functions, closures, functors and late static binding are some of the new features of the release. The most important thing for shared hosts might be the ".user.ini", a .htaccess like file that allows users in a virtual hosting environment to change settings of their php instance.

It's too bad that it will take a long time until 5.3 has found it's way on to the webservers. In this time there won't be any big software making use of the new features for the sake of backwards compatibility. Let's hope it will not take as long as it took to replace PHP 4.