Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0 Announced

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p. Hi, this is Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework.

p. As I write this I am deploying Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0 to "http://framework.zend.com/":http://framework.zend.com/.

p. 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!

p. 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.

p. Please visit our project management wiki page to see the roadmap:

"http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/zic":http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/zic

p. I'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=pMy3PL3bQqZqlteLWg43HDg":http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pMy3PL3bQqZqlteLWg43HDg

p. Feel free to visit this spreadsheet from time to time. I try to update it at least once a week.

p. Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0 includes many significant features and enhancements:

*(disc) 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.

p. 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/Home":http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Home

p. Thanks again to everyone involved. We're looking forward to more great progress in Zend Framework 0.7.

p. Best regards,
Bill Karwin