[24-Nov-2005] The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.0.
Some of the key features of PHP 5.1.0 include:

• A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support.
• Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X.
• PDO extension is now enabled by default.
• Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality.
• Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded to latest versions.
• Over 400 various bug fixes.
• PEAR upgraded to version 1.4.5

In addition to new features, this release includes a number of important security fixes and we recommend that all users of PHP 5.0 and early adopters of PHP 5.1 betas upgrade to this release as soon as possible. The complete details about all of the changes can be found in the PHP 5 ChangeLog and an upgrading guide is available as well.

PHP 5.1.0

Complete Source Code

• PHP 5.1.0 (tar.bz2) [6,000Kb] - 24 Nov 2005
  md5: 4b9caa2f201f6b1f6a24de6c435cd4b1
• PHP 5.1.0 (tar.gz) [7,664Kb] - 24 Nov 2005
  md5: b565964b595df91be27900e490760d4b

Windows Binaries

• PHP 5.1.0 zip package [8,457Kb] - 24 Nov 2005
  md5: a2dc5ffbeddef7c67b1ac9c1a4a3b408
• PHP 5.1.0 installer [2,507Kb] - 24 Nov 2005
  (CGI only, packaged as Windows installer to install and configure PHP, and automatically configure IIS, PWS and Xitami, with manual configuration for other servers. N.B. no external extensions included)
  md5: 28019a42c2845b3ad70e134a302c5089

We have a PHP 5 / Zend Engine 2 page explaining the language level changes introduced in PHP 5. The PHP 5 ChangeLog details all the other changes.