14 DAY TRIAL // PHP 5.5.16, 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 released and is now available for download.
The PHP 5.x branch includes a new OOP model based on the Zend Engine, a new extension for improved MySQL support, built-in native support for SQLite, and many more features.
According to the changelog, and incorrect push to the empty array has been fixed, extensive backtracking is now done in the rule regular expression, a segfault in cdf.c has been fixed, the PHP no longer links to systemd libraries without using pkg-config, a php-gd 'c_color' NULL pointer dereference has been fixed, and null byte injection is no longer possible with imagexxx functions.
Also, php-milter no longer builds and crashes randomly, a segfault in dns_get_record has been fixed, missing type checks in OpenSSL options have been fixed, the interactive mode is now able to force a newline before the prompt, and the command history is now saved when exiting interactive shell with control-c.
You can check out the changelog in the readme file incorporated in the source package for more details about this release. You can download PHP 5.5.16 right now from Softpedia.