Christopher Jones has noted that the latest version of the OCI8 drivers for PHP (in the PECL extension) have been pushed to the current stable package.

HP's OCI8 1.3.3 has support for Oracle's DRCP connection pooling and Fast Application Notification technologies giving it improved scalability and high availability. Overall, the re-architecture of the connection code is more stable. It fixes some obscure edge case issues and lets it handle re-started DB's better. Basic functionality is unchanged.

You can find out more about the package and download this latest edition from its PECL page or check out the whitepaper they recent;y wrote up about PHP and Oracle scalability.

Felix Geisendorfer has posted an announcement to the Debuggable blog about the upcoming stable release of the next major version of the CakePHP framework, version 1.2.

The CakePHP team is gearing up to finally push out a stable 1.2 release! If you are following the trac timeline you can see that everybody is putting in huge amounts of work to fix bugs and get everything stable.

He suggests a few ways to get involved in helping to push this release out the door like writing test cases, showing how to replicate bugs and help out the documentation team with their efforts to keep the manual up to date.

Two different posts on the Zend Developer Zone today announce two different events surrounding Zend's framework - the release of the latest stable version, 1.0.4 and the posting of the latest Release Candidate, 1.5RC1.

About the Zend Framework 1.0.4 release:

It is our pleasure to announce the release of Zend Framework 1.0.4! You can download this new mini-release now from the Zend Framework download site. With this mini-release we bid a fond farewell to the 1.0 branch as we move on to the 1.5 release.

And about the Release Candidate:

This obviously marks a very important step towards a high-quality, thoroughly tested 1.5 GA release. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release in any way: with patches/check ins, documentation/translations, and bug reports.

You can grab this new Candidate from the download site as well.

The phpDocumentor project has announced the release of their latest version (a stable!) - phpDocumentor 1.4.0 - on their site today:

The PhpDocumentor team would like to announce the release of PhpDocumentor version 1.4.0 through SourceForge and pear.php.net. This is the first stable feature release since 2006.

This new release adds in functionality for new tags for "magic" properties and methods, some new runtime options (like ignoresymlinks and undocumentedelements) and puts a new memory_limit option on the ini file to help keep it more under control.

You can grab the latest download either through a "pear upgrade" or directly from the project's SourceForge site. Their latest post also includes the complete Changelog for more details on the updates.