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+title: Update June 2014
+---
+
+Welcome to the first monthly news item. From now on we will try, on the first of each
+month, to publish a post which details all the new developments, big and small, which
+have taken place within the PHPCR ecosystem.
+
+## News
+
+### Documentation
+
+[David Buchmann](https://github.com/dbu) wrote a great and extensive tutorial on PHPCR some years ago,
+but it has been hiding in the [phpcr-docs](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-docs) repository.
+
+We have now adapted this tutorial to the restructured text format and made it into
+a **book** instead of a **tutorial**. It is hosted it on
+[Readthedocs.org](https://phpcr.readthedocs.org).
+
+This will become the offical location of all future PHPCR documentation.
+
+There has also been a [proposal](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-docs/pull/8) for hosting a restructured text version of the JCR spec
+on the documenatation site
+
+### Marmelab PHPCR Browser supports Doctrine DBAL
+
+The [Marmelab PHPCR browser](https://github.com/marmelab/phpcr-browser) now officially supports Doctrine-DBAL
+
+## Jackalope
+
+- [Discussion](https://github.com/jackalope/jackalope-jackrabbit/issues/88) about concurrent writes in Jackalope-Jackrabbit
+- [Discussion](https://github.com/jackalope/jackalope-jackrabbit/pull/72) about throwing exceptions with invalid parameters: The PHPCR spec specifies to return null on invalid connection parameters - but this makes it hard to debug - should we violate the PHPCR spec or make an amendment?
+
+## Development Summary
+
+### PHPCR Utils
+
+- [Fixed bug](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-utils/pull/115) with escaping fulltext search literal when converting from QOM to SQL2.
+
+### PHPCR Shell
+
+- [Alpha 3](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-shell/releases) was released on the 9th of June.
+- [New option](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-shell/pull/32) added to show defined but unpopulated nodes and properties.
+- [PR](ttps://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-shell/pull/56) for showing node contents in XML with syntax highlighting: - PR to support embedding the shell in Symfony applications - we are thinking about replacing all the PHPCR.
+  Util commands in the DoctrinePHPCRBundle with the PHPCR Shell.
+
+### PHPCR API
+
+- Fixed a bug with escaping full text search literals when converting QOM to SQL2