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+title: Update July 2014
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+## Releases
+
+- PHPCR-ODM Version 1.2.0-RC1 was [released](https://github.com/doctrine/phpcr-odm/releases/tag/1.2.0-RC1).
+- PHPCR-Shell Alpha4 was [released](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-shell/releases/tag/1.0.0-alpha4)
+
+## News
+
+- Lukas did some benchmarking on Jackalope, and Jackalope Doctrine DBAL did
+  rather well. You can see the results
+  [here](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr_benchmark) and the discussion
+  [here](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/symfony-cmf-devs/benchmark|sort:relevance/symfony-cmf-devs/SH7IUMhlbnM/HV36qSmKSIgJ)
+- @danrot and @cystbear talked about resurecting the [Jackalope MongoDB](https://github.com/jackalope/jackalope-mongodb/issues/7) PHPCR implementation.
+- PHPCR-Shell has implemented (non-standard) support for [UPDATE](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-shell/pull/68) and [DELETE](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-shell/pull/69) queries.
+- There was a discussion and a PR about making the PHPCR-ODM Bundle [generate node types](https://github.com/doctrine/DoctrinePHPCRBundle/pull/157/files#r15151472)
+- There was a PR to add syntax highlighting for [CND](https://github.com/phpcr/phpcr-docs/pull/10#issuecomment-49553220) files in the PHPCR documentation.
+