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Today, after about 7 months of work, we finally opened the bugs requesting the stabilization of dev-lang/php version 4.3.11-r5, 4.4.1-r3 and 5.0.5-r5, you can follow the progress at the main bug.

PHP 5.1.1 will never go stable, we're working on getting PHP 5.1.2 in the tree as soon as possible and that one will then be (along with PHP 4.4.2) the candidate for stabling after the customary 30 days a package has to remain in the tree before being marked as stable.
PHP 4.4.2 and PHP 5.1.2 are on their way and should be available in Portage in about a week, if you want to try them out, we already have PHP 5.1.2 in our PHP Overlay.

There was also movement on the PEAR front of things: dev-php/PEAR-PEAR was updated to 1.3.6-r4 wich should fix a few bugs and be collision-protect safe. The new dev-php/PEAR-PEAR now directly includes the old dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar, dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt and dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC packages, so there's no need to emerge them anymore, in fact you have to uninstall them (emerge -C) to be able to install the new dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4, so if Portage complains about blockers and such, just emerge -C the three packages mentioned above.

A couple of bugs were closed today too, concerning pecl-pdo-pgsql compile failures, and some new packages were added recently to the PHP Overlay: odbtp and pecl-odbtp, an alternative to freetds and the PHP mssql extension to access MSSQL databases.

The PHP Herd will also soon hold a meeting, I'll blog about the definitive date once it's decided.
Things are looking good for PHP on Gentoo imo, and I really wanted to thank all the PHP Herd members and all the other people involved in this, especially Stuart, Sebastian, Jakub, Andreask, Wendall911 and Kloeri, for their great help and amazing work and contribution, thanks guys!