From Zend today, there's a new PHP Weekly Summary with more than its share of news.

Of the previous week, one of the more notible events that occurred was the introduction of PHP 5.0.0-beta3 bringing us one step closer to a final release. all upcoming releases prior to the final release will be release candidates (RCs) where no new functionality is added but only bugs are fixed and the codebase stabilized.

Another interesting note is talk about integrating a "sandbox capability" for PHP into future releases. Of course, allowing a space where any kind of code could be run unhindered is a scary concept, and the soonest something like this could be integrated would be PHP 6 anyway.

And, in one of the last major notes this week, the official maintainer of the OCI8 extensions has been changed from Thies Arntzen to Antony Dvogal. Antony is actively fixing bugs and adding features.