The PHP Development team announced this morning that PHP 5.3 RC1 is ready for public consumption. Not only does PHP 5.3 include a number of basic enhancements, it has a number of new features as well!

These include:

  • Namespace support
  • Late static binding
  • Lambda functions and closures
  • NOWDOC syntax
  • GOTO
  • The ternary short cut ?:

And much more. Read the full release announcement, or just go head over to the PHP QA website to download it and play!