PHP 5.4.0 released
Big hitters:<p>array dereferencing - $object->method()[$index] is now valid syntax<p>built-in webserver via CLI - <i>php -s</i> - <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php" rel="nofollow">http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php</a><p>traits and the insteadof operator - <a href="http://php.net/language.oop5.traits.php" rel="nofollow">http://php.net/language.oop5.traits.php</a><p>shortened array syntax - $array = [1, 2, [1, 2, 3], 4];<p>Finally <i>removed</i> register_globals ;)<p>Default charset of UTF-8!<p>Read all about it! <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.php</a>