We couldn’t be happier to announce that Zend Framework 1.6 Release
Candidate 1 is now available from the Zend Framework download site!
http://framework.zend.com/download
An overview of new features:
- Dojo Integration
- JSON-RPC
- Dojo Data packing
- Dojo View Helper
- Dijit integration with Zend_Form & Zend_View
- Dojo Library Distribution
- SOAP
- SOAP Server
- SOAP Client
- Autodiscovery
- WSDL access
- WSDL Generation
- Preview of Tooling Project in Laboratory (see /laboratory folder)
- Command Line Interface
- Project Asset Management
- Unit Testing Harness for Controllers
- Lucene 2.3 Index File Format Support
- Zend_Session save handler for Database Tables
- Paginator Component
- Text/Figlet Support
- ReCaptcha Service
- Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support
- Character Set Option for DB Adapters
- Zend File Transfer Component
- New Media View Helpers (Flash, Quicktime, Object, and Page)
- Support in Zend_Translate for INI File Format
This obviously marks a very important step towards a high-quality,
highly tested 1.6 GA release. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to
this release in any way: with patches/check ins,
documentation/translations, and bug reports.
But our work is not yet over! Let’s do our best to bring this release to the breaking point to find areas we can improve the release for General Availability. Based on your feedback we will determine in the next few weeks whether we require additional release candidates, so please provide feedback on our issue tracker (http://framework.zend.com/issues)
as soon as you can and ask any questions/post your experiences on the
appropriate mailing list.
Again, the Zend Framework community does NOT recommend this release for production use. We do, however, recommend evaluating new features in this release with existing and new applications.
Enjoy 1.6RC1, and see you on the issue tracker, wiki, and mailing lists!
July 22, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Any reason why the router is now loading all the routes? I did a benchmark and it’s slower than before.
Thanks
July 22, 2008 at 8:09 pm
All the tickets I am watching or that I have submitted over the course of the last months are resolved. I continue to be unimpressed by the depth of the implementations. I remember when I said that if PEAR does not get its act together that ZF and eZ components will quickly overtake PEAR. Well right now the main reason to use ZF or eZ components is if you want to run in E_STRICT. I am not impressed by the documentation of ZF (eZ components is pretty good), but then again I prefer reading the source and just want as many examples as possible, no need for that text fluff.
But if you really want a solution that is tried and proven over years, PEAR is still the one stop solution after all these years. Pitty that nobody is putting more pressure on PEAR2 to make it out the door.
July 22, 2008 at 8:40 pm
@fedecarg: All routes have always been loaded; this is not the
reason for routing going slower, and I would hesitate to say that would be
the reason for degraded performance. However, there have been changes to
routing in the past week to allow hostname-based routing; I will investigate
this before the next RC is out.
@lukas: RC1 was primarily to get new features in front of the users. We are
doing bug triage right now and will be addressing bugs for another release
candidate over the next two weeks. Also, if you are unimpressed by
documentation or implementation, you are welcome to join us as a contributor
to help improve the project.
July 23, 2008 at 1:46 am
I’m very excited to start using 1.6. For me the highlights are Zend_Dojo and Zend_Pagination (as while pagination isn’t difficult with straight PHP/SQL, I do find it annoying). Thanks to everyone for their hard work.
July 23, 2008 at 8:24 am
Hi Will / Matthew,
Thanks for all your continued hard work in this. I am looking forward to having at look at the goodies in this release.
Do you have a timeframe in mind to get to General Availability. Will there
be an RC2/3?
If I start what I expect to be a two month project now can I expect 1.6 to be production ready by October?
Thanks,
Nigel
twitter.com/njames
July 23, 2008 at 8:52 am
You forgot to add the biggest help of all:
Zend_View_Stream – converts short tags in your views to the long version on the fly if you have short tags disabled.
July 23, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Sad to see so many mysqli adapter issues are still open. I was expecting a fix for calling more than one stored procedure in a script.
July 24, 2008 at 10:17 am
Pretty excited by this, already has a little play and written a tutorial on using Dojo’s layout helper if any one’s interested. http://blog.justanotherdeveloper.co.uk/2008/07/23/zend-framework-and-dojo/
July 25, 2008 at 11:48 am
@Lukas
When you are not impressed by the zf-docs, than I expect you to be depressed by pear. Most components are not documented, and only a few are actively maintained and are considered to be stable.
I am hoping for further improvements. Especially a feature complete pdf component. And an ext integration!
July 26, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Just downloaded 1.6 rc1 to try out the Zend File Transfer Component and don’t see it in the package. What am I missing here? Oh, wait, Thomas Weidner mentions a delay until RC2. If this is the case, perhaps a note should be added to the new feature list.
July 29, 2008 at 5:16 am
include more than 8 MB of Dojo logos to the download?
The externals/dojo/util folder alone is nearly 18 MB uncompressed / 12 MB compressed.
The whole externals folder (which only consists of dojo) is 3 times as big as the ZF library: 37 MB uncompressed / 21 MB compressed (7-zip gzip ultra).
August 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Is there any reason why ReCaptcha Service is not there as mentioned in the new features list?
Thanks,
Pascal
August 5, 2008 at 11:59 am
On the download page – or anywhere slightly obvious, it would be nice to be able to subscribe to something that sends me an email when a release (even an RC) is out.
August 5, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Like it or not, Lukas does identify a significant problem with ZF – a lack of decent documentation. Currently, the online documentation stands testiment to the adage "a picture is worth a thousand words", whilst offline documentation has clearly been rushed. To throw PEAR into the ring as a comeback does no-one any good – two wrongs don’t make a right.
JDunmore’s point about distribution is also very valid.
Collectively it’s obvious that ZF might be nice to use, but – at this level – why have these basics not been resolved? Source distribution and developer education are critical things to address. ZF might be the best framework in the world, but in this day and age you HAVE to be able to deliver it to developers properly, and you HAVE to educate them properly on how to use it.
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November 15, 2008 at 6:10 am
Hello,
Thanks for all your hardwork. Do we get the Zend Framework 1.6.2 or later manual in CHM format. It would be appreciated if I get this manual.
Regards,
Amit Shah
http://www.amitshah.in