Zend Framework 1.0.0 RC1 released

We’re pleased to announce Zend Framework 1.0.0 Release Candidate 1.

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

This is the home stretch toward 1.0! Everyone has worked very hard for many months, and we are very close to finishing what we set out to do with Zend Framework 1.0. This Release Candidate is intended to show the complete set of features Zend Framework 1.0 has. Following the final 1.0 release, Zend Framework will continue to grow and improve, but there will be a great emphasis on maintaining backward-compatibility. That has been the mission of Zend Framework from the beginning, to provide a professional web framework with quality and stability.

There are a few noteworthy additions in this release, but some of these
impact backward-compatibility:

• Zend_Controller has a new feature called the ViewRenderer, which makes it very easy to design controller actions. See docs for the new usage; there is a section in the Controller Migration section for updating your MVC applications.
• Zend_Gdata has a new object-oriented usage, making this client very similar to the interface of Gdata clients for other programming languages. However, support for Google Calendar is unfinished and remains in the incubator.
• Zend_Db statement classes now have a consistent interface and common classes and exceptions across all database adapters; however, binding query parameters and results to PHP variables by reference has a bug (logged as ZF-1440).
• Zend_Filter_Input is a new class with an old name. This provides a solution for declaring rules to filter and validate groups of data, and it serves as a “cage” from which only values that pass your validation rules can be retrieved.
• Zend_Service_StrikeIron is a new web service client in the incubator.

There have been 90 issues fixed in this release since 0.9.3. See the changelog for a list of issues addressed in Release 1.0.0RC1:
http://framework.zend.com/changelog

The next release will be in mid-June, and it will likely be a second
release candidate.

Regards,
Bill Karwin
Product Engineering Manager
Zend Technologies