Over on Zend.com this morning, they have the latest PHP Weekly Summary for this past week, including a highlight on the PECL functionality of PHP.

This past week, a discussion started about moving most, if not all, PHP C based extensions should be moved into PECL. [...] Most of the developers seem to think that this is a good idea for PHP 5 and has been a long time coming. The main concern is making sure that the situation doesn't get unmanageable for either the maintainers of the extension or the PHP release manager.

Items also of note this past week are a few bugs in the MySQL world: a bug that was found with OpenSSL support and the MySQL module, a crash-causing function called mysqlinfo, and a tutorial on how to convert from the MySQL to the MySQLi extension if you're using PHP5.