The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of the
first Release Candidate for 1.9.0:
http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
Note that because these packages are not stable, they will not be found
on the zend.com CDN; please scroll to the bottom of the above page to
find links to this release.
Since the beta release, we have carefully reviewed the test suite and
code to ensure PHP 5.3 compatibility; at this time, we feel confident
that users should have no issues when using Zend Framework under PHP
5.3.
Additionally, we have had a large number of people testing the beta, and
our contributors have provided a number of bugfixes and improvements
based on user feedback. The new features are looking quite solid, and we
look forward to the possibility of a stable release later in the week.
For those unfamiliar with the new features in 1.9.0, they include:
* Zend_Queue and Zend_Service_Amazon_Sqs, which provide the ability to
use local and remote messaging and queue services for offloading
asynchronous processes. (Contributed by Justin Plock and Daniel Lo)
* Zend_Queue_Adapter_PlatformJobQueue, a Zend_Queue adapter for Zend
Platform's Job Queue. (Contributed by Zend Technologies)
* Zend_Rest_Route, Zend_Rest_Controller, and
Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler, which aid in providing RESTful
resources via the MVC layer. (Contributed by Luke Crouch,
SourceForge)
* Zend_Feed_Reader, which provides a common API to RSS and Atom feeds,
as well as extensions to each format, caching, and a slew of other
functionality. (Contributed by Pádraic Brady)
* Zend_Db_Adapter_Sqlsrv, a Zend_Db adapter for Microsoft's SQL Server
driver for PHP. (Contributed by Juozas Kaziukenas and Rob Allen)
* Zend_Db_Table updates to allow using Zend_Db_Table as a concrete
class by passing it one or more table definitions via the
constructor. (Contributed by Ralph Schindler)
* Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db, which provides Zend_Db support for PHPUnit's
DBUnit support, allowing developers to do functional and integration
testing against databases using data fixtures. (Contributed by
Benjamin Eberlei)
* Annotation processing support for Zend_Pdf, as well as performance
improvements. (Contributed by Alexander Veremyev)
* Support for constants within Zend_Config_Xml. (Contributed by Ben
Scholzen)
* Zend_Dojo custom build layer support. (Contributed by Matthew Weier
O'Phinney)
* Dojo upgraded to 1.3.2.
* Numerous Zend_Ldap improvements, including full support for CRUD
operations, search, and manipulating tree structures. (Contributed by
Stefan Gehrig)
* Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog, a Zend_Log writer for writing to your system
log. (Contributed by Thomas Gelf)
* Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl, a view helper for returning the current
base URL to your application, as well as for constructing URLs to
public resources. (Contributed by Robin Skoglund and Geoffrey Tran)
* Zend_Date now has support for the DateTime extension. (Contributed
by Thomas Weidner)
* Zend_Locale has been upgraded to CLDR 1.7. (Contributed by Thomas
Weidner)
* Zend_Translate now has plurals support for the Gettext, Csv, and
Array adapters. (Contributed by Thomas Weidner)
* PHP 5.3 compatibility, including support for new features in the
mysqli extension. All components are fully tested on both PHP 5.2.x
and PHP 5.3.0.
In addition, a large number of smaller improvements were made throughout
the framework, and around 700 issues have been resolved or closed since
the release of 1.8.0!
Please help us make this a stellar release; download the RC today and test
your application against it!
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead | [email protected]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
