Zend Framework 1.10.0beta1 Released

Almost a month has passed since our alpha release of
1.10.0, but the activity on the Zend Framework trunk has done
anything but slow down. A number of contributors have completed features
that were only near-completion during the alpha, and others have undergone
further community review to add a bit of polish to their APIs.

At this time, I’m happy to announce a BETA release of 1.10.0.

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

Please note that the beta is only available on the ZF site, not from
the zend.com CDN.

Beta means that the release is considered feature-complete, and
that any new APIs added are now considered final. In this release you’ll
find the following new features:

• Zend_Barcode, contributed by Mickael Perraud
• Zend_Cache_Backend_Static, contributed by Pádraic Brady
• Zend_Cache_Manager, contributed by Pádraic Brady
• Zend_Exception – previous exception support, contributed by Marc Bennewitz
• Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub, contributed by Pádraic Brady
• Zend_Feed_Writer, contributed by Pádraic Brady
• Zend_Filter_Boolean, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Filter_Compress/Decompress, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Filter_Null, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Log::factory(), contributed by Mark van der Velden and
  Martin Roest (of ibuildings)
• Zend_Log_Writer_ZendMonitor, contributed by Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• Zend_Markup, contributed by Pieter Kokx
• Zend_Oauth, contributed by Pádraic Brady
• Zend_Serializer, contributed by Marc Bennewitz
• Zend_Service_DeveloperGarden, contributed by Marco Kaiser
• Zend_Service_LiveDocx, contributed by Jonathan Marron
• Zend_Service_WindowsAzure, contributed by Maarten Balliauw
• Zend_Validate_Barcode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Validate_Callback, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Validate_CreditCard, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Zend_Validate_PostCode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
• Additions to Zend_Application resources, including Cachemanager, Dojo,
  Jquery, Layout, Log, Mail, and Multidb (contributed primarily by Dolf
  Schimmel)
• Refactoring of Zend_Loader::loadClass() to conform to the PHP Framework
  Interop Group reference implementation, which allows for autoloading PHP 5.3
  namespaced code
• Updated Dojo version to 1.4

In addition, Zend_Tool has had undergone a ton of refactoring to eliminate
issues and bottlenecks, as well as to add a number of new features:

• New CLI runner with home directory and configuration support
• New providers for Model generation, DbAdapter setup, Layouts and Form
  Generation
• Default project structure comes with logging support in the ErrorController

This is a BETA release, and should by no means be used in production.
While the feature-set and API is complete, there may be a number of issues
that still need to be addressed before the final release. As such, we
do ask you to test your applications against the beta, and provide
us feedback via the issue
tracker so that we can have a solid and stable release.

Our tentative release schedule is:

• 1.10.0rc1: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
• 1.10.0: Tuesday, 26 January 2010

I’d like to extend a hearty congratulations to all contributors, who have
worked tirelessly over the past few weeks to finalize and test new features;
the release could not have happened without their efforts!