New this morning from Zend is their latest PHP Weekly Summary for the week of February 16th.

In this week's edition include the deprecation of the dl() function (for loading a PHP extension at runtime) in favor of loading it in your php.ini instead. There was quite an uproar about this addition, but the function is not likely to be removed anytime soon.

Also mentioned, of course, is the introduction of PHP 5 Beta 4 to update some critical fixes to the Zend Engine. And, finally, a note about Zeev's changes to the way that PHP 5 will handle exceptions - to make custom exceptions, you must extend the default exception class to use its functionality.