New today from PHP Magazine is their latest PHPBarnstormer - Issue #32.

Issue #32 brings news that Wez Furlong has released two 'invaluable' Windows extensions, that Zend has decided to drop the controversial "creators of PHP" bit from their press releases, the launch of the PHP Security Consortium, Andi's suggestion of a March 1st release date for PHP 5.1, Rasmus' update on the input filtering extension, Greg blogging up a storm on developments in PEAR 1.4, good PEAR support in Debian, proposals for an Archive reader/writer called pooCL, HTML_Safe and PHP_Lexer, the release of pecl_http, and more.

PEAR/PECL packages listed for this week include: HTML_Template_Flexy-1.2.1 (stable), PHPUnit-1.2.1 (stable), Text_Wiki-0.24.0 (beta), and pecl_http-0.2.0 (alpha).