Zend Framework 1.8 Beta 1 is available at:
http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
This release is feature complete, but may contain a few issues yet; the
Zend Framework team strongly recommends against using it in production.
For those that missed the 1.8.0 preview release, there are a large
number of new features and improvements, including (but not limited to)
the following:
* Zend_Tool, contributed by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Application, contributed by Ben Scholzen and
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Loader_Autoloader and Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource,
contributed by Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Navigation, contributed by Robin Skoglund
* Zend_CodeGenerator, by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Reflection, Ralph Schindler and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend Server backend for Zend_Cache, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2, contributed by Jon Whitcraft
* Zend_Service_Amazon_S3, Justin Plock and Stas Malyshev
* Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Support for file upload progress support in Zend_File_Transfer,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Translation-aware routes, contributed by Ben Scholzen
* Zend_Json expression support, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei and
Oscar Reales
* Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei
* SOAP input and output header support, contributed by Alexander
Veremyev
* Support for keyword field search using query strings,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for searching across multiple indexes in Zend_Search_Lucene,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Locale support in Zend_Validate_Int and Zend_Validate_Float,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Phonecode support in Zend_Locale, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_LocalizedToNormalized and NormalizedToLocalized,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists and NoRecordExists, contributed
by Ryan Mauger
* Zend_Tag_Cloud, contributed by Ben Scholzen
This obviously marks a very important step towards a high-quality, well
tested 1.8 production release. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to
this release in any way: patches, documentation, translations, and bug
reports are all important.
Please download and test this release thoroughly over the next few days
so that we can fix any urgent issues or documentation problems before
the final release next week. Please remember to provide feedback on our
issue tracker <http://framework.zend.com/issues> and ask any questions
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 the 1.8 beta release!
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead | [email protected]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
