The 18 GHz PHOENIX V2 ECRIS is running since 2010 on the heavy ion low energy beam transport line (LEBT) of SPIRAL2 installed at LPSC Grenoble. PHOENIX V2 will be the starting ion source of SPIRAL 2 at GANIL. The status and future developments of this source are presented in this paper. Recent studies with Oxygen and Argon beams at 60 kV have demonstrated reliable operation at 1.3 emA of O and 200 eμA of Ar. Metallic ion beam production has been studied with the Large Capacity Oven (LCO) developed by GANIL and 20 eμA of Ni have been obtained. In order to improve further the beam intensities for SPIRAL2, an economical upgrade of the source named PHOENIX V3 has been recently approved by the project management. The goal is to double the plasma chamber volume from 0.6 to 1.2 liter by increasing the chamber wall radius, keeping the whole magnetic confinement intensity unchanged. The PHOENIX V3 magnetic design is presented along with a status of the project. PHOENIX V2 RECENT RESULTS The PHOENIX V2 source is an evolution of the former PHOENIX V1 source used to study intense pulsed afterglow Lead beams for the LHC [1,2,3]. Major improvement of V2 with respect to V1 are a higher voltage withstanding (60 kV) and a higher radial magnetic confinement (1.35 T instead of 1.2 T at plasma chamber wall); the drawback being a lower chamber volume (0.7 liter instead of 1.2). Information on the 3 PHOENIX version layout is reported in the next section for completion. PHOENIX V2 was installed at LPSC on the SPIRAL2 LEBT from December 2009 until June 2012 and allowed the successful beam line commissioning. Production tests of A/Q=3 beams have been performed with gas and metals in collaboration with IPNL and GANIL. The table 1 summarizes the results obtained. The beam results increased recently by 30% after the discovery and the fixing of a wrong mechanical part machining in the plasma chamber water flow circuit. Once fixed, the water flow reached its nominal value and the source immediately accepted much more RF power to produce further high charge states ions. The Fig. 1 presents a Ni spectrum obtained with the GANIL LCO. [4] The Ni consumption was 0.2 mg/h and beam featured stable behaviour for several hours. One should note the excellent charge state distribution peaked on the 19+ which was unexpected for such a compact source. The 20 μA Ni was obtained at the upper LCO operation temperature and no intensity saturation was observed. So a higher Ni current should be reached with 2 ovens set in parallel or a larger oven. Unfortunately, the 32 mm source radius is too small to allow this. The key to understand this high charge state distribution is likely the pressure decrease in the plasma chamber induced by the Ni vapor (Getter effect). Indeed, the plasma chamber is only pumped through the plasma electrode. The vapor to ion yield was measured to be ~10%. The LCO is located off axis with an angle that optimizes the vapor solid angle intersection through the ECR plasma. Table 1: Intensities Produced by PHOENIX V2 Ion Charge state Intensity [μA]