This week in the PHP Weekly Summary from Zend there's some good info on a few of the bug fixes, but the biggest news of this last week is obviously the release of PHP 4.3.0: PHP 4.3 finally hit the stores. A great load of new features and fixes made it into the release. For all information have a look at the release announcement.

Also in this week's summary are mentions of a register_apache_shutdown_function(), which will help PHP shut down with apache a bit more cleanly, and something called php-mix, a chacing engine for PHP that would cache some dynamic content using program transformation technique.

And, lastly, there's mention of a proposal (by Andrei) to have a script start in "PHP mode", and not in "HTML mode" - so no opening <?php would be required.