Hi, this is Bill Karwin,
Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework, a world-class library of
components for developing web applications.
We’re pleased to
announce Zend Framework Preview Release 0.8.0.
Download it from http://framework.zend.com/
This preview release contains
many improvements across virtually the entire set of components in Zend
Framework. It’s hard to categorize this release as focused on one
component or another, because so much great new functionality has been added.
Components moved from
incubator to core:
- Zend_Auth,
Zend_Console_Getopt, Zend_Filter, Zend_Mail_Read, Zend_Rest_Client,
Zend_Rest_Server, Zend_Validate
Improved features and
design:
- MVC modular application
support
- Zend_Date, Zend_Db,
Zend_Db_Select, Zend_Locale, Zend_Session
Great performance
improvement:
- Zend_Search_Lucene
New components:
- Zend_Environment for
reporting PHP runtime environment (incubator)
- Zend_Log fully
object-oriented redesign (incubator)
- Zend_Service_Akismet
client for spam-filtering web service
A total of 132 issues (bugs,
improvements, feature enhancements or new features) have been resolved in our
issue tracker in this release -- that's the most activity recorded for any
release of Zend Framework to date!
The next milestone is Zend
Framework Beta 0.9.0, on approximately March 15. This will be our first Beta
release. The objective of the Beta is to be feature complete with respect
to the components we will include in Zend Framework 1.0. Any component
that is still in the incubator in ZF 0.9.0 will probably not be released in ZF
1.0, but such components may appear in future releases after 1.0.
Please also visit the Zend
Framework development wiki home page:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Home
Thanks again to all our
contributors, coders, testers, and documentation translators.
Best regards,
Bill Karwin
