PHP Magazine has released their latest PHPBarnstormer - Issue #36.

Issue #36 carries news of PEAR package downloads hitting the 10 million mark, the opening of Pearified.com, and that there is no word yet on the status of the PHP 5.1 and PHP 4.3.11 releases. The mailing lists have had queries regarding plans to include integrated encryption routines (mcrypt) in the PHP core, the right way to get 'mailing list'ers to look at a bug report, memory usage becoming an issue after the release of PEAR 1.4.0a, the best way to extend HTML_Quickform to create a multiple select box, and more. While Services_Trackback and Image_XBM have come up for voting, a Services_Safari package has been proposed. Read on...

Some of the PEAR/PECL packages mentioned this week include: PEAR-1.4.0a4 (alpha), Archive_Tar-1.3.0 (stable), Text_Wiki-1.0.0RC2 (beta), newt-1.0 (stable), and pecl_http-0.6.1 (alpha).