This month has been interesting, a new Jackalope PHPCR implementation has been started. Jackalope FS will eventually add a new tool to the PHPCR developers kit, also there has been lots of activity on the phpcr-odm in preparation for the forthcoming 1.2 release.

• @willemjanz and (@dantleech) talked about PHPCR at the great EZ/PHP Summer Camp in Croatia.

• Open pull request for moving the implementation agnostic node validation code from the doctrine-dbal implementation to the base package.
• Discussion about also moving the node normalization logic to the main Jackalope package.

• Pure filesystem implementation of PHPCR
• Currently supports Reading and some Writing.
• Will initially aim to have feature parity with the doctrine-dbal implementation.
• ETA: About 3 months :)

• Alfusainey is working on implementing remoting for access control in Jackrabbit. Once this works, it will be possible to implement ACLs in jackalope-jackrabbit, allowing access control on nodes and subtrees. Check out the Jackrabbit pull requests.

• General minor improvements, including asking for confirmation on exit if there are unsaved changes.
• Open pull request for adding function mapping to UPDATE queries, with the particular goal of better supporting multi-value propoperties.

• Version 1.2 of the PHPCR-ODM is just around the corner and we ask people to test the latest RC version (1.2.0-rc4) and provide feedback until next week when we hope to release it.
• Fixed some bugs related to translation handling.