I read in the PHP internals newsgroup, that Thomas Boutell is offering the GD library project to PHP. This would mean that the GD development project would be hosted on PHP.net servers, and managed by PHP people. I hope that they make this arrangement. I am an avid user of the GD library, and it is frustrating to see that the GD extension bundled with PHP still cannot create animated GIF images. It would be possible for a whole new generation of web animations to arise if the proliferation of up-to-date GD installations.