The PHP Group is happy to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.2.1, the latest version of the widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially well-suited for Web development.

This latest release contains several bug fixes as found in PHP 4.2.0. These include fixes for the session, com and mbstring extensions, as well as a major upgrade of the DomXML extension. Also a few extra checks for safe_mode were added. For more information, see the PHP 4.2.1 release announcement.