PHP 4.3.0 is out

After eight months of hard development, version 4.3.0 of PHP was released on December 27. Besides fixing security bugs, it brings improvements such as a faster Zend Engine and optimized string functions. The authors boast of the biggest change in the 4.x series: separating out the CLI for developing desktop (client) applications. It differs in many ways from the sibling SAPIs and supports input and output streams.