I, for one, have really been looking forward to this release. Speaking as one of the folks that started using ZF back in 0.2, it really has come a long way.
Kudos to everyone. Many of us would still be using ____ if it weren't for you guys. > The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of version > 1.9.0! > > http://framework.zend.com/download/latest > > Kudos and thanks go out to the huge number of community contributors who > helped make this release possible. This release has been almost entirely > community driven, with the Zend team contributing primarily feature > additions to existing components and working on maintenance of the > project. If you submitted an issue report, a documentation improvement, > a patch, a documentation translation, or a component, let it be known > that you helped make this release what it is! > > The big stories in this release can be summed up in two phrases: > enterprise tools and PHP 5.3 support. > > With Zend Framework making inroads to Enterprises, it's not surprising > that we are seeing a number of components geared towards the Enterprise. > In this release, we add two new components -- Zend_Queue and > Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db -- as well as additions to existing components -- > Zend_Ldap, Zend_Rest_Route, and Zend_Db_Adapter_Sqlsrv -- that target > such development. Zend_Queue provides a common API for interacting with > queue services such as Apache's ActiveMQ, MemcacheQ, and Zend Platform's > Job Queue. Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db brings DBUnit support to our Zend_Test > offering, and provides integration with Zend_Db. Our Zend_Ldap support > is now much more robust, and allows connectivity with MS ActiveDirectory > and Novell's eDirectory, as well as full CRUD and tree manipulation > options. Zend_Rest_Route allows developers to quickly develop RESTful > MVC applications, which are increasingly gaining traction when serving > public APIs. Zend_Db_Adapter_Sqlsrv interfaces with Microsoft's SQL > Server driver for PHP. > > A month ago, the PHP team released the long-awaited PHP 5.3, which > offers many improvements to the object model, as well as increased > performance. Upgrading to PHP 5.3 is mostly straightforward, but, as > with any release of this magnitude, sometimes takes some work. We have > carefully audited our code and combed through our testbed in order to > provide first-class compatibility for PHP 5.3 in Zend Framework -- while > simultaneously continuing to support PHP 5.2.4 and above. Using Zend > Framework on PHP 5.2 or 5.3 should be seamless and pose no issues for > developers. > > New features in Zend Framework 1.9.0 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 and Jurrien Stutterheim) > > * 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) > > * 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 5.2.4 > and above, as well as 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! > > Any project the size of Zend Framework will inevitably run into issues > where backwards compatibility breaks occur. While we strive to keep > these to a minimum, we still needed to introduce several changes and > updates in this version. They include the following: > > * Zend_Http_Client > A change was made in Zend_Http_Client to correct ZF-5744 (Multiple > file uploads using the same $formname in setFileUpload). Instead of > returning an associative array of element name => upload information > pairs, it now returns an array of arrays, with the element name as > part of the upload information. This allows multiple file uploads > using the same element name. > > * Zend_Config_Xml > One deciding factor for many when choosing which Zend_Config format > to use for their application config had to do with support for > constants. Our application recommendations include defining two > constants, APPLICATION_ENV and APPLICATION_PATH, and many developers > have found it useful that in INI and PHP configurations, these > constants are expanded during parsing. Zend_Config_Xml now supports > this via an XML namespace as follows: > > <config > xmlns:zf="http://framework.zend.com/xml/zend-config-xml/1.0/";> > <production> > <includePath><zf:const > zf:name="APPLICATION_PATH"/>/library</includePath> > </production> > </config> > > On the PHP side, nothing changes. > > * Zend_Translate_Adapter_Ini > Prior to PHP 5.3, parse_ini_file() and parse_ini_string() handled > non-ASCII characters in INI option values without an issue. However, > starting in PHP 5.3, such options will now be silently dropped in the > array returned. If you are upgrading to PHP 5.3 and using > Zend_Translate_Adapter_Ini, this could cause potential issues for > you. If you use UTF-8 or Latin-1 characters in your INI option keys > (which are the message IDs for translation), you should either modify > these to use only ASCII characters, or choose a different translation > adapter. > > * Zend_Service_Amazon > Zend_Service_Amazon has been updated to comply with the latest Amazon > ECommerce APIs -- which, as of 15 August 2009, will require an API > key for authentication. As a result, if you now use > Zend_Service_Amazon, you will need to pass your API key to the > Zend_Service_Amazon constructor: > > $amazon = new Zend_Service_Amazon($appId, $countryCode, $apiKey); > > Otherwise, usage of this component remains the same. > > A detailed list of all features and bug fixes in this release may be > found at: > > http://framework.zend.com/changelog/1.9.0 > > Please join me in a hearty round of congratulations and acknowledgment > of all contributors who helped make this release possible through code > contributions, feedback, testing, documentation, translations, and issue > reports! Without you, the community, Zend Framework would not be where > it is today! > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Project Lead | [email protected] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ >
