The 5.5.x branch of PHP has finally arrived and it can be downloaded from Softpedia

Jun 20, 2013 08:54 GMT  ·  By

PHP, an HTML-embedded scripting language with syntax borrowed from C, Java, and Perl, with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in, has been updated to version 5.5.0.

Highlights for PHP 5.5.0:

• The Zend Opcache extension has been added; • Generators and coroutines have been added; • The "finally" keyword has been added; • A simplified password hashing API has been made available; • Support has been added for constant array/string dereferencing; • An array_column function, which returns a column in a multidimensional array, is now available; • "Z" option can now be used to pack and unpack; • Support has been added for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions.

You can check out the official changelog in the readme file incorporated in the source package.

Download PHP 5.5.0 right now from Softpedia.