PHP development team on 30th June 2009, announced the availability of PHP 5.3.0 to users with lot of improved concepts in PHP 5.3.0. This new major release includes large number of new features and bug fixes.

PHP 5.3.0 comes with featured concepts like namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.

To install PHP 5.3.0 with Apache 2 check out brandonsavage.net instructions about how to install PHP 5.3.0 in Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Check out official PHP 5.3.0 Release Announcement to learn about key features included in PHP 5.3.0.