On CorePHP today, Richard Davey has this new post with his detailed look at the latest release from Zend - Zend Studio 5.

I was pleased to see that Zend Studio 5 was released today, although as a long-time Zend customer a little disappointed they didn't email to say, but I'm sure they'll get around to it. The installation was a breeze on my PC and Mac, and it picked up my settings files from v4 without a problem. There are some great new additions in version 5, several of which I personally feel slightly responsible for, let me explain...

He goes on to talk about the large amount of feedback and feature requests he sent along to Zend (and how they responded), as well as a listing of features that he mentioned and are just now showing up - like a "Goto function / method feature", "function folding", and a "Built-in Database Browser".

Overal, though, he seems positive about this new release, and is already looking forward to the beta testing of version 6...