New this morning from Zend.com, we have the latest and greatest PHP Weekly Summary. There are several things talked about in this issue, but there's one cool item that I know several people have been waiting on for a long time. A project has been started to add threads to PHP.
A number of core developers gave their opinions and wrote example code throughout the discussion of what it would take for this feature to work well within the current PHP architecture. While not impossible, the impression is definitely that this is not going to be an easy task.
Multithreading in PHP would be an enormous step forward and would allow you to have code that executes in the background while other code executes in the foreground.

Another mention of something smaller, but still useful is down near the bottom - a note about the improved manual pages. Now, the printable versions will include the user comments as well, helping to carry those (often quite useful) tips across to you.