I would agree, unless you need better thread support, or some of the new IO features or Unicode support (btw that does really rock) stay with 5.6.1. For the most part in my book, known bugs with known workarounds are much better suited in a production environment than unknown bugs and a few new goodies. =) It may be worth your while to consider waiting for the 5.8 jump until 5.8.1 is out -- Although I would most defiantly code with 5.8 in mind so the upgrade is less freighting when you do it.

-Waswas

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: 5.8.0 and 5.6.x by waswas-fng
in thread 5.8.0 and 5.6.x by peschkaj

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