Zend Framework 1.9.0 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 Now Available

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of the first
Release Candidate for 1.9.0:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

Note that because these packages are not stable, they will not be found on
the zend.com CDN; please scroll to the bottom of the above page to find
links to this release.

Since the href="http://devzone.zend.com/article/4875-Zend-Framework-1.9.0-Beta-Now-Available">beta
release, we have carefully reviewed the test suite and code to ensure
PHP 5.3 compatibility; at this time, we feel confident that users should have
no issues when using Zend Framework under PHP 5.3.

Additionally, we have had a large number of people testing the beta, and our
contributors have provided a number of bugfixes and improvements based on
user feedback. The new features are looking quite solid, and we look forward
to the possibility of a stable release later in the week.

For those unfamiliar with the new features in 1.9.0, they include:

• Zend_Queue and Zend_Service_Amazon_Sqs, which provide
  the ability to use local and remote messaging and queue services for offloading
  asynchronous processes. (Contributed by Justin Plock and Daniel Lo)
• Zend_Queue_Adapter_PlatformJobQueue, a Zend_Queue
  adapter for Zend Platform’s Job Queue. (Contributed by Zend Technologies)
• Zend_Rest_Route, Zend_Rest_Controller, and
  Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler, which aid in providing RESTful
  resources via the MVC layer. (Contributed by Luke Crouch, SourceForge)
• Zend_Feed_Reader, which provides a common API to RSS and Atom
  feeds, as well as extensions to each format, caching, and a slew of other
  functionality. (Contributed by Pádraic Brady and Jurrien Stutterheim)
• Zend_Db_Adapter_Sqlsrv, a Zend_Db adapter for Microsoft’s SQL
  Server driver for PHP. (Contributed by Juozas Kaziukenas and Rob Allen)
• Zend_Db_Table updates to allow using Zend_Db_Table as
  a concrete class by passing it one or more table definitions via the
  constructor. (Contributed by Ralph Schindler)
• Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db, which provides Zend_Db support
  for PHPUnit’s DBUnit support, allowing developers to do functional and
  integration testing against databases using data fixtures. (Contributed by
  Benjamin Eberlei)
• Annotation processing support for Zend_Pdf, as well as performance
  improvements. (Contributed by Alexander Veremyev)
• Support for constants within Zend_Config_Xml. (Contributed
  by Ben Scholzen)
• Zend_Dojo custom build layer support. (Contributed by Matthew Weier
  O’Phinney)
• Dojo upgraded to 1.3.2.
• Numerous Zend_Ldap improvements, including full support for CRUD
  operations, search, and manipulating tree structures. (Contributed by Stefan
  Gehrig)
• Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog, a Zend_Log writer for writing
  to your system log. (Contributed by Thomas Gelf)
• Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl, a view helper for returning the current
  base URL to your application, as well as for constructing URLs to public
  resources. (Contributed by Robin Skoglund and Geoffrey Tran)
• Zend_Date now has support for the DateTime extension.
  (Contributed by Thomas Weidner)
• Zend_Locale has been upgraded to CLDR 1.7. (Contributed by Thomas
  Weidner)
• Zend_Translate now has plurals support for the Gettext, Csv, and
  Array adapters. (Contributed by Thomas Weidner)
• PHP 5.3 compatibility, including support for new features in the mysqli
  extension. All components are fully tested on both PHP 5.2.x and PHP 5.3.0.

In addition, a large number of smaller improvements were made throughout
the framework, and around 700 issues have been resolved or closed since
the release of 1.8.0!

Please help us make this a stellar release; download the RC today and test
your application against it!

3 comments to “Zend Framework 1.9.0 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 Now Available”

snefit
July 28th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Nice, going to try it soon.
I hope the (simple) ‘issue’ ZF-7162 can be included though!

Good work!

tianon
July 29th, 2009 at 7:28 am

I’m most excited for the adjustments to the Zend_Service_Amazon to include signing requests with the "secret key", as Amazon is going to be requiring next month. I’m also surprised they didn’t make the (admittedly short) changelog above, but thanks anyways for working towards a great release!

weierophinney
July 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

When preparing the list of new features, I inadvertently left out a key contributor to Zend_Feed_Reader: Jurrien Stutterheim! I’ve updated the article to correct this omission.