From dotvoid.com, there's a new post that looks at the future of PHP, more specifically PHP6, and some of the features that will come with it.

I haven't had much time to follow the discussion around PHP 6 the last few months. Finally I took a half an hour to read up on what will happen with PHP come version 6. It was interesting reading and most of the things I really look forward to.

PHP 6, it seems, will make the leap and become a more clean environment - which is something I really appreciate.

He also mentions the dropping of register_globals/magic_quotes/safe_mode as well as talk about the embedded SOAP support and the inclusion of the opcode cache APC.