New from PHP Magazine today is the latest issue of their PHPBarnstormer column by Aaron Wormus.

Issue #29 marks the marks the first edition for the year 2005. This Issue has pointers to an important announcement made on php.net regarding security issues in PHP, the PHP Security Consortium, the yearly PHP roundup, detailed news coverage from the PHP, PEAR, and PECL world, and of course pointers to all the latest PEAR and PECL releases. Happy New Year to all our readers!

There were tons of PEAR/PECL releases this past week, including: HTTP_Header-1.1.2RC1 (beta), XML_Parser-1.2.2 (stable), HTTP_Request-1.2.4 (stable), Net_Monitor-0.0.6 (beta), WinBinder-0.33.114 (alpha) , and ssh2-0.4.1 (beta) (to only name a few).