PHP Magazine has released their latest editon of their summary column - PHPBarnstormer, Issue #44.

The latest issue of Barnstormer includes news of PEAR 1.4 nearing feature completion, the proposal and disposal of changes to the 'new' construct, the reason behind why CVS HEAD cannot be built on Windows platforms, and news that an extension to register custom error handlers with PHP is in the works. From the PEAR mailing list, work is on to include MDB2 compatibility with PDO and a PDO backend for the DBDO PECL package, as well as a list of the latest package proposals. On the PECL list, suggestions flew fast on how to use PDO_FETCH_ASSOC to return an associative array from a database, without being affected by duplicate column names that may occur while joining multiple tables. Also check out the latest PEAR and PECL releases for the week.

Some of these releases include: Cache-1.5.5RC2 (beta), HTML_Progress-1.2.1 (stable), XML_RPC-1.3.0RC3 (beta) , Crypt_RSA-1.0.0 (stable), ssh2-0.8 (beta), and xdebug-2.0.0beta3 (beta).