As everyone remembers, some crap came out with the release of PHP 5.2.7, the version was removed, and the official site was recommended to wait for version 5.2.8. I waited, comrades, congratulations :)
To be fair, it should be noted that, as found by symbix , the PHP 5.2.8 source code was put in free access a bit earlier than the official release appeared.
By the way, I would like to remind you that this is not the first major jamb with the release of PHP5. The last time PHP 5.1.3 was released on the same day as PHP 5.1.2 as a critical update. ')
That's how we live :)