Hi, this is Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework.
As I write this I am deploying Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0 to
http://framework.zend.com/.
This represents a watershed for Zend Framework: we have passed the
halfway point. We decided to advance the version number more than the
customary "one-tenth" increment. We feel that the progress achieved by
the community developers and by Zend staff on this project represents an
advanced stage of the project, and we wanted the version number to
reflect that. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who has worked so
hard toward the success of the Zend Framework!
We are at a phase in which we are focused on finishing the components of
the product. As we are approaching a state of feature-completeness, a
Beta Release, and then the General Release of version 1.0, we have
created a more precise roadmap for the scope and schedule of upcoming
preview releases of Zend Framework. Our goal remains to produce a
library of convenient PHP 5 classes for web application development, and
to enable the success of many PHP developers.
Please visit our project management wiki page to see the roadmap:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/zicI've also made public a Google Spreadsheet that I use for tracking the
status of the Zend Framework components:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pMy3PL3bQqZqlteLWg43HDgFeel free to visit this spreadsheet from time to time. I try to update
it at least once a week.
Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0 includes many significant features
and enhancements:
- Lucene-compatible search engine query language
- New Authentication component and improved ACL design
- Improved MVC implementation and documentation, MVC has moved into the
core library
- Improved Session-handling design
- Integrated Google Data API Client in the ZF core library (Zend_Gdata
is available as a separate download)
- Improved XmlRpc client and server
- Improved Http Client design, with support for cookies and proxy servers
- Emerging components for I18N, Getopt, Mail folders, and others.
- Solutions for 126 bugs and feature enhancements, recorded in our issue
tracker.
Recently members of our developer community reorganized our ZF
development wiki. Now it's easier to find resources and information
about the Zend Framework project. Visit the wiki home page:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/HomeThanks again to everyone involved. We're looking forward to more great
progress in Zend Framework 0.7.
Best regards,
Bill Karwin
