Congratulations! November 19th, 2010 Netbeans team announced that NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta is available for downloads. The final release of NetBeans IDE 7.0 is planned for March 2011. NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, as well as in several community-translated languages. NetBeans Platform with version 7.0 got general performance enhancements (less intrusive checking for external changes when switching between the IDE and other programs) and tight integration with Profiler. New features useful for PHP developers are: HTML5 editing support, JSON formatter, Generate PhpDoc, Rename refactoring, Safe Delete Refactoring, PHP 5.3 – Support for aliases.
Read more details about NetBeans IDE 7.0 for PHP enhancements at this page.
What important thing should you know before install NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta on your desktop?

NetBeans 6.9 for PHP is available for download. NetBeans IDE runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. It is open-source and free. See what is new and cool in the latest NetBeans 6.9 release. The NetBeans IDE is an integrated development environment for software developers. It provides the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the most of modern programming languages, including of course PHP.
If you interesting not PHP only you would like to know that NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for visually building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications. Additional highlights include OSGi interoperability for NetBeans Platform applications and support for developing OSGi bundles with Maven; support for JavaFX SDK 1.3, PHP Zend framework, and Ruby on Rails 3.0; as well as improvements to the Java Editor, Java Debugger, issue tracking, and more…

Good News! May 26th, 2010 NetBeans.org announced that NetBeans 6.9 Release Candidate 1 is available. NetBeans IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is cross-platform (it is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris) product very good suited for PHP, JavaScript and AJAX developement. I wrote about the main staff of NetBeans IDE for PHP at NetBeans for PHP development. It is the open source solution and thus, available without any charge.
Some new features added to NetBeans 2.9 were described at NetBeans IDE for PHP 6.9 beta.
Now we have 6.9 Release Candidate 1. I switched from 6.8 to 6.9 beta at the end of April, 2010 and didn’t meet any bugs. It is fast, convenient and comprehensive IDE for the most PHP developement tasks.

May 3rd, 2010 NetBeans.org announced NetBeans IDE version 6.9 beta availability.
I use NetBeans IDE for PHP developement about 2 years. It is robust, comprehensive and very convenient IDE with PHP support. Main features of NetBeans IDE for PHP were described in NetBeans for PHP development post. What’s new in the 6.9 version?
As official release notes says there are next new features realized in version 6.9:
* More editor hints
* Spell checker support in the Editor
* Help menu item for reporting bugs and slowness against NetBeans IDE