This week's edition of PHP Magazine's PHPBarnstormer has been posted - Issue #39.

This week PHP 5.0.4 RC2 rolled out for testing. Besides the fact that a "fix" in PHP 5.0.4 broke the copy() function in Windows, a couple other issues were quickly reported and patched. In news from the PHP mailing list. read about Debian's new release of PHP 4.3.10, the problem with PDO and parameters bound with a colon, etc. In news from the PEAR mailing list, read about the debate on whether or not PEAR should accept applications, the new PEAR package releases for this week, and lots more. Check out the new PECL releases and Aaron's roundup of the PECL mailing list news.

Some of the PEAR/PECL packages released this week include: LiveUser-0.15.1 (beta), Net_Monitor-0.2.1 (beta), PEAR-1.4.0a9 (alpha), HTTP_Download-1.0.0 (stable), and Fileinfo-0.3 (beta).