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We can see on this screenshot http://www.pellissier.co.za/hermien/?p=549 that the new source navigation panel shows the statement block where the cursor is ( "if(running)" ). It seems to work for Java files but not for PHP files. The source navigation panel shows the PHP namespace, the class name and the method name only.
It's an enhancement, it never worked before. Just a new feature which has to be evaluated.