The folks over at Zend.com have released this weeks latest PHP Weekly Summary with the imminent release of PHP 4.3.0 being the top story.

Following that, there are some interesting notes about the forking of the GD project so that it could just be packaged with PHP on future releases. This strategy has a number of advantages. For starters, it will mean that the code will be far more maintainable than the current version that is being used. Secondly, it will make it easier to differentiate between versions of GD. Most importantly, however, it will make it much easier to add new features and integrate them into PHP – things like automatically cleaning up used memory when a script finishes running.

The other notes in this summary are minor, but include something that I noticed myself with the pre-release version - some streams issues that can cause the sockets not to work correctly.