The Symfony blog pas posted something they're calling the Symfony 500 + 100 Challenge, an effort to kickstart some backlog cleanup of the number of issues currently in the project's backlog.

The end of the year is approaching, and we think that this is the best time to do some backlog cleaning before fresh starting the new year. Right now there are 728 pending issues in symfony/symfony repository and 177 issues in symfony/symfony-docs.

Some of those issues were reported a long time ago and they probably refer to Symfony versions that are no longer maintained. Others would have been fixed but not closed and there could also be some duplicates. That's why we ask your help to review all the pending issues in order to close irrelevant issues and achieve much more manageable levels: 500 issues or less for symfony/symfony and 100 issues or less for symfony/symfony-docs.

If you're interested in helping out, they've included a few steps to get you started locating and claiming an issue for you to work on. They also make suggestions on how to report back issues found on bugs, feature requests and general discussion items.

The PHP.net site has announced the latest versions of PHP are now available for download - PHP 5.4.6 and 5.3.16:

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.6 and PHP 5.3.16. These releases fix over 20 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.6, or at least 5.3.16. For source downloads of PHP 5.4.6 and PHP 5.3.16 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

Bugs fixed in these two releases relate to things like bugs that were causing crashes in auto_prepend_file on the CLI web server, a segfault when DateInterval was extended, a return type on PDO and a fix for the count() call on an IteratorIterator. See the ChangeLog for the full list.