Zend Framework 0.8.0 Released

Hi, this is Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework, the world-class library of components for developing web applications.

We're pleased to announce Zend Framework Preview Release 0.8.0.

Download it from http://framework.zend.com/

This preview release contains many improvements across virtually the entire set of components in Zend Framework. It's hard to categorize this release as focused on one component or another, because so much great new functionality has been added.

Components moved from incubator to core:

• Zend_Auth
• Zend_Console_Getopt
• Zend_Filter
• Zend_Mail_Read
• Zend_Rest_Client
• Zend_Rest_Server
• Zend_Validate

Improved features and design:

• MVC modular application support
• Zend_Date
• Zend_Db
• Zend_Db_Select
• Zend_Locale
• Zend_Session

Great performance improvement:

• Zend_Search_Lucene

New components:

• Zend_Environment for reporting PHP runtime environment (incubator)
• Zend_Log fully object-oriented redesign (incubator)
• Zend_Service_Akismet client for spam-filtering web service

A total of 132 issues (bugs, improvements, feature enhancements or new features) have been resolved in our issue tracker in this release -- that's the most activity recorded for any release of Zend Framework to date!

The next milestone is Zend Framework Beta 0.9.0, on approximately March 15. This will be our first Beta release. The objective of the Beta is to be feature complete with respect to the components we will include in Zend Framework 1.0. Any component that is still in the incubator in ZF 0.9.0 will probably not be released in ZF 1.0, but such components may appear in future releases after 1.0.

Please also visit the Zend Framework development wiki home page: http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Home

Thanks again to all our contributors, coders, testers, and documentation translators.

Best regards,
Bill Karwin