Pascal Martin has made the tenth post in his series covering PHP 7.1 and how it differs from previous versions. While this series was previously mentioned there have been significant updates to the series warranting a new post.

Here is the full list of the current ten articles he's written up so far:

• PHP 7.1: introduction and releases cycle
• PHP 7.1: testing a pre-release
• PHP 7.1: enhancements to errors handling
• PHP 7.1: changes to types
• PHP 7.0: new features from the not-so-distant past
• PHP 7.1: better syntax, a more consistent language
• PHP 7.1: create a Closure from a callable
• PHP 7.1: a few other things
• PHP 7.1: actually… No!
• PHP 7.1: the road towards PHP 7.2 and PHP 8.0
• PHP 7.1: a few bc-breaks and conclusion

There's lots of good information about this upcoming minor release in each of these articles as well as an interesting view into the release process for a new PHP version.

Pascal MARTIN has been in the process of posting a series of articles to his site covering the upcoming PHP 7.1 release including coverage of both new and deprecated features. So far there's four articles post with the latest coming out today:

A new minor version of PHP is just around the corner: PHP 7.1! Its release date is not really set yet, as it depends on the amount of bugs that will be reported and fixed on Releases Candidates, but it should happen before the end of this year. One year after PHP 7.0, this first minor release will bring its fair share of new enhancements!

Let’s take a look at those, going with about ten posts spread over the next few days.

So far he's covered:

• introducing PHP 7.1 and its release cycle
• the methods used for testing a pre-release
• enhancements to error handling
• changes to types

Keep an eye on his site in the upcoming days for more pots in this series, helping you to prepare for the 7.1 release before it happens.

The latest version of the (already) popular Zend Framework has been released. As per the official announement from the Zend Developer Zone:

This preview release is the result of a great effort from our Zend Framework community developers to create advanced PHP classes for internationalizing applications. The Zend_Locale, Zend_Date, Zend_Measure, and Zend_Translate classes enable you to bring your PHP project to a global audience by handling text, dates, and messages with best-practices methods, using an easy objected-oriented interface that is characteristic of Zend Framework components.

Updates in this new release include:

• New translation-management component with gettext support
• Comprehensive class for working with measurements and conversions
• New class for managing memory usage in PHP applications
• Many other improvements in current components such as MVC, Session, Gdata, HTTP Client, Search, XmlRpc, and others

For full details on these new features and on the framework in general, check out thier wiki documentation.

The latest version of the (already) popular Zend Framework has been released. As per the official announement from the Zend Developer Zone:

This preview release is the result of a great effort from our Zend Framework community developers to create advanced PHP classes for internationalizing applications. The Zend_Locale, Zend_Date, Zend_Measure, and Zend_Translate classes enable you to bring your PHP project to a global audience by handling text, dates, and messages with best-practices methods, using an easy objected-oriented interface that is characteristic of Zend Framework components.

Updates in this new release include:

• New translation-management component with gettext support
• Comprehensive class for working with measurements and conversions
• New class for managing memory usage in PHP applications
• Many other improvements in current components such as MVC, Session, Gdata, HTTP Client, Search, XmlRpc, and others

For full details on these new features and on the framework in general, check out thier wiki documentation.

Joshua Eichorn shares some of the updates to the phpDocumentor software in his latest post today:

As PHP keeps added language features one of the things we have to do is figure out how to document them. Lately I've been hearing requests for a way to document virtual properties and methods on classes that are implemented using __call etc.

After talking a bit with Greg, I'm leaning towards adding in some new docblock tags to classes to allow these methods/properties to be documented.

He includes a code example for the documentation method suggested on these new functionality bits. He also asks for comments/ideas on how to hald these sorts of updates in the future.

Joshua Eichorn shares some of the updates to the phpDocumentor software in his latest post today:

As PHP keeps added language features one of the things we have to do is figure out how to document them. Lately I've been hearing requests for a way to document virtual properties and methods on classes that are implemented using __call etc.

After talking a bit with Greg, I'm leaning towards adding in some new docblock tags to classes to allow these methods/properties to be documented.

He includes a code example for the documentation method suggested on these new functionality bits. He also asks for comments/ideas on how to hald these sorts of updates in the future.

Jim Plush has a release announcement (complete with a list of updates made) to his popular MyBic Ajax and PHP package - version 0.6.5.

Version 0.6.5 of the MyBic PHP/AJAX framework was released today on sourceforge (http://www.litfuel.net/mybic). It's been 3 months since the last update which shows that MyBic is quickly approaching the 1.0 release version which means it will be stable enough for use in all types of production systems. It is currently being used in several enterprise companies at the moment and is being used in desktop like ajax applications as well. Thanks to all who help make MyBic that much better!

The listed updates are:

• added loadCSS method that allows you to add stylesheets at runtime
• fixed bug for abort timeout not working when requests are queued
• fixed issue where format and method weren't being used if the requests were queued
• mybic_server.php now supports either using the mybic_json.php file OR omar Kilani's C based JSON extension
• added ability to stop ajax calls until a certain piece of functionality finishes

To download this latest version of the library or just get complete details, head over to the project's site.

Jim Plush has a release announcement (complete with a list of updates made) to his popular MyBic Ajax and PHP package - version 0.6.5.

Version 0.6.5 of the MyBic PHP/AJAX framework was released today on sourceforge (http://www.litfuel.net/mybic). It's been 3 months since the last update which shows that MyBic is quickly approaching the 1.0 release version which means it will be stable enough for use in all types of production systems. It is currently being used in several enterprise companies at the moment and is being used in desktop like ajax applications as well. Thanks to all who help make MyBic that much better!

The listed updates are:

• added loadCSS method that allows you to add stylesheets at runtime
• fixed bug for abort timeout not working when requests are queued
• fixed issue where format and method weren't being used if the requests were queued
• mybic_server.php now supports either using the mybic_json.php file OR omar Kilani's C based JSON extension
• added ability to stop ajax calls until a certain piece of functionality finishes

To download this latest version of the library or just get complete details, head over to the project's site.