release candidate

Over on the PHPClasses.org blog today there's a new post looking at the next major upcoming PHP version (5.4), what it comes with and why you might want to make the upgrade.

Softpedia: KDE Software Compilation 4.8 Release Candidate brings hundreds of bug fixes and general improvements.

The final release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment, in January 2012, will contain lots of interesting features.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours.

Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.

No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

Microsoft skipped the beta and issued a release candidate of SQL Server 2012 (formerly codenamed Denali) this week.

Microsoft promised Windows Phone developers in July that the App Hub would start accepting Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" apps for Marketplace certification in late August.

Microsoft released its Windows Phone "Mango" OS to device manufacturers but app developers will get an earlier build.

The company plans to make the final release candidate available to developers in August.

On the Symfony blog Fabien Potencier has posted about the roadmap to a final release for the Symfony2 version of the popular framework including some of the things that will and will not change after the release.

It's official, kernel version 3.0 is on its way.

The IE team has worked with add-on developers and improved its system of error reporting during the beta and release candidate of IE9 to increase the reliability of the browser.

ITWorld: "Developers who want to take advantage of Nokia's cross-platform application and user interface framework can now access the latest release candidate."