Zend Framework 0.7.0 Released

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

As I write this I am deploying Zend Framework Preview Release 0.7.0 to
http://framework.zend.com/

This preview release is the result of a great effort from our Zend Framework community developers to create advanced PHP classes for internationalizing applications. The Zend_Locale, Zend_Date, Zend_Measure, and Zend_Translate classes enable you to bring your PHP project to a global audience by handling text, dates, and messages with best-practices methods, using an easy objected-oriented interface that is characteristic of Zend Framework components.

Many thanks especially to community developers Thomas Weidner, Andries Seutens, and Ahmed Shreef, and Zend developers Gavin Vess and Alexander Veremyev and for their efforts to finish a lot of great code, tests, and documentation in a short time.

Zend Framework Preview Release 0.7.0 includes many significant features and enhancements:

• Locale-management component
• Locale-aware Date parsing and formatting class
• New translation-management component with gettext support
• Comprehensive class for working with measurements and conversions
• New prototype class for filtering and validation parameters
• New class for managing memory usage in PHP applications
• Many other improvements in current components such as MVC, Session, Gdata, HTTP Client, Search, XmlRpc, and others
• Many other enhancements to test suites and documentation.

Please also visit the Zend Framework development wiki home page.

Thanks again to all our contributors, coders, testers, and documentation translators. We’re looking forward to more great progress in Zend Framework 0.8.

Best regards,
Bill Karwin