As mentioned on the main PHP site today, the latest version in the PHP 5.2 series has been released - PHP 5.2.13. […]

On behalf of the Zend Framework community, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.2, our second maintenance release in the 1.10 series. You can download it from our downloads page:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

This release includes approximately 50 bugfixes, the majority of which were contributed during our Bug Hunt Days last week (more information on that in the days to come). The fixes contributed are helping stabilize and improve this release. […]

Zend announced today the General Availability of Zend Server 5.0. As stated in the press release, the new version delivers increased performance, faster problem resolution, and adds job queuing and includes support for PHP 5.3. "Zend Server 5.0 is a huge step forward for businesses running business-critical PHP Web applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder at Zend. “With this new version we are delivering application monitoring and diagnostics as part of the base application server at no additional cost. The new Code Tracing technology revolutionizes how businesses can reduce time spent on problem resolution. This and other enhancements will help businesses deliver reliable high-performance applications and maximize end-user satisfaction while reducing development and management time and costs." […]

The Zend Developer Zone Revamp is now underway with project infrastructure in place, and the first lines of code committed. Track the progress through the ZDZ Revamp tag covering specific news on the revamp along with articles written around the ever expanding codebase and samples. […]

According to Matt Asay, both PHP and Perl are crashing the enterprise party and are rapidly closing the gap between themselves and some of the more traditional "enterprise-ish" tools out there (like Java or .NET). […]

On behalf of the Zend Framework's many contributors, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.1, the first maintenance release in our 1.10 series. You can download it from our downloads page:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

This release includes more than 50 bugfixes, all made since the 1.10.0 release two weeks ago; these fixes help bring stability and maturity to the 1.10 series. […]

In January, I returned as editor for the Zend Developer Zone. At that time I mentioned I would be chasing my goal "To provide a huge value to the PHP community with original, deep, example and situation laden content." And we have been preparing to start that effort, and in a big way. We will be rebuilding ZDZ from the ground up and in full public view of the community -- to act as a learning experience and a showcase for PHP best practices. […]

With EasyIngres v1 release (Windows only), it is time to starting planning version 2 and the leaders of the project are seeking input into upcoming releases. One of the key considerations will be a port to Linux. […]

Recently a contribution was made to combine Ingres with PHP to help users get started developing PHP applications. The project is called EasyIngres and was created by Cedric Pasquotti, a PHP developer based in France . […]

Zend and Acquia have jointly released a new white paper entitled: Optimizing Drupal Performance – Benchmark Results. This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social publishing platform. Tested runtime environments included plain PHP, Zend Server (www.zend.com/products/server), and open-source optimizers, such as APC and WinCache. […]