Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 now available!
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/downloadAn 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!
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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.
@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.
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
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Zend_View_Stream - converts short tags in your views to the long version on the fly if you have short tags disabled.
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!
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).
Thanks,
Pascal
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.
The website is used zf1.6 Zend_Auth,Zend_Db,Zend_Cache,Zend_Search_Lucene
The ufindbook domain meaning you find book is very easy.
The website is used zf1.6 Zend_Auth,Zend_Db,Zend_Cache,Zend_Search_Lucene