Ilia Alshanetsky announced the availability of the 2nd release candidate of PHP 5.2.2 which can be downloaded from
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.2RC2.tar.bz2 (md5sum: 4752195cc5418686914ee1db08774763)
http://downloads.php.net/edink/php-5.2.2RC2-Win32.zip (md5sum: afa59d4219d83b7281f0101c9dae947e)
There is no major regression from RC1 to RC2, mainly a resolution of pre-existing issues. The goal of this RC2 is to proceed to the final release next Thursday. So everyone is welcomed to test heavily PHP 5.2.2 RC2 and report any problem or bug found to get it fixed in time.