At last, Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.1 has been released!
The much-anticipated PHP 5.2.1 has just been released, and is available for download from
http://www.php.net/downloads.
This release contains many fixes Zend has contributed to improve the performance of the PHP scripting engine on Windows as part of our collaboration effort to make PHP rock on Windows / IIS. This comes almost at the same time as our release of
IIS FastCGI Tech Preview 2 last week. It also contains a number of functionality fixes, such as for PHP imprersonation when in FastCGI mode.
You will also notice that the PHP 5.2.1 release contains an additional set of Windows binaries labelled "non-thread-safe". These binaries are compiled without thread safety, which provides an additional performance boost for PHP when running in single-threaded envrionments like CGI and FastCGI. Be sure to download these binaries and try them out with the IIS FastCGI TP2.
Also, look for some performance analysis in the next post ...
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About Mike Volodarsky
For the past 5 years, I was the core Program Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0 products. I drove the design and development of the IIS 7.0 web server core, the IIS FastCGI support, the AppCmd command line tool, the ASP.NET Integrated pipeline, and other special projects around server security, performance, and scalability. Now, I am working on my own on cutting edge web server tech on top of the Microsoft IIS platform, and continue blogging about it here.