Happy that they went with UTF-8 here: <a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-charset" rel="nofollow">http://us.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-charset</a><p>Some nice improvements overall.
Good.<p>Dont know if i'll still be using PHP in 5 years, but I think PHP team is trying hard to turn the language around and bring some sanity to the project. PHP7 ,the next version will be an important step in the right direction.
Congrats to the PHP team. We're quite happy to see PHP 5.3 fully EOL'd recently and 5.6 now released. In trying to do our part to encourage adoption, we've already added support for 5.6 to ServerPilot (<a href="https://serverpilot.io/" rel="nofollow">https://serverpilot.io/</a>).