Eliot Horowitz and the rest of the core MongoDB Team released a post on the project blog addressing current and future development of the project. The team has released two stable releases — 1.0 and 1.2 — and has a third, version 1.4, coming that contains “better concurrency, geospatial indexing, ‘usability’ enhancements and speed enhancements, to name a few.”

The PHP development team today released PHP 5.3.2, a maintenance release fixing a large number of bugs and a few security issues as well.

The 2010 edition of the Future of Open Source survey is now available. This survey is backed by the Future of Open Source Forum, and has collaborators including such well-known Open Source leaders as North Bridge, RedHat, MySQL, Novell, SugarCRM, and others.

Everyone is using frameworks these days, but which one is right for you?

MySQL Server 5.5.2-m2, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released.

Over at PHPWomen they are trying to improve diversity in open source projects. They have launched a new initiative to encourage (Open Source) projects that embrace diversity, and provide a welcoming and friendly atmosphere for contributors.

The latest release of NetBeans adds something many PHP developers have patiently waited for: Zend Framework support. This, and other features, make it a viable candidate for a PHP developer’s IDE.