On behalf of the Zend Framework team and the framework's many
contributors, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the
stable release of Zend Framework 1.10.0. You can download it from our
downloads page:
http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
This release includes a ton of new features (more on those below), as
well as some huge changes to our documentation.
Our documentation has been slightly re-organized into new sections.
Previously, the manual was divided simply into chapters, one per
component. Those chapters still exist, but have been moved into an
explicit "Reference Guide" section. We have also added a new section
entitled, "Learning Zend Framework," that includes a number of
tutorials
for using various framework components, including our former "Quick
Start" guide. Initially, we're offering nine tutorials, ranging from
first steps to advanced layout and view usage, to search and
pagination.
These tutorials are now an official part of our documentation, and you
can expect improvements, translations, and additions in the versions
to
come.
To render our documentation, we've moved from the venerable xsltproc
to
PHP.net's own PhD. This provides us more flexibility in how we render
the manual -- including the ability to render it differently for
packaging versus the online manual. Additionally, it brings the
rendering time down from over an hour to just minutes -- which will
make
the release process faster and smoother. Please join me in thanking
Shahar Evron and Hannes Magnusson for assisting in our transition to
this fantastic tool.
Another big change is that we are now providing versioned
documentation
on the website. For each minor revision of Zend Framework (1.10, 1.9,
1.8, etc), you can now find both the manual as well as the API
documentation. This should assist users who are building off of older
versions of ZF.
Finally, our download page has a new design, aimed to be simpler and
more visually appealing.
We have a few more site updates in store that we'll be rolling out
over
the next few weeks; stay tuned for further announcements!
Below is a list of new features included in the 1.10.0 stable release:
* Zend_Barcode, contributed by Mickael Perraud
* Zend_Cache_Backend_Static, contributed by Pádraic Brady
* Zend_Cache_Manager, contributed by Pádraic Brady
* Zend_Exception - previous exception support, contributed by Marc
Bennewitz
* Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub, contributed by Pádraic Brady
* Zend_Feed_Writer, contributed by Pádraic Brady
* Zend_Filter_Boolean, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_Compress/Decompress, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_Null, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Log::factory(), contributed by Mark van der Velden and Martin
Roest (of ibuildings)
* Zend_Log_Writer_ZendMonitor, contributed by Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Markup, contributed by Pieter Kokx
* Zend_Oauth, contributed by Pádraic Brady
* Zend_Serializer, contributed by Marc Bennewitz
* Zend_Service_DeveloperGarden, contributed by Marco Kaiser
* Zend_Service_LiveDocx, contributed by Jonathan Marron
* Zend_Service_WindowsAzure, contributed by Maarten Balliauw
* Zend_Validate_Barcode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_Callback, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_CreditCard, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_PostCode, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Pdf parsing speed has been improved by around 40%
* Additions to Zend_Application resources, including Cachemanager,
Dojo, Jquery, Layout, Log, Mail, and Multidb (contributed primarily
by Dolf Schimmel)
* Refactoring of Zend_Loader::loadClass() to conform to the PHP
Framework Interop Group reference implementation, which allows for
autoloading PHP 5.3 namespaced code
* Updated Dojo version to 1.4
Zend_Tool was refactored to eliminate issues and bottlenecks, as
well as
to add a number of new features:
* New CLI runner with home directory and configuration support
* New providers for Model generation, DbAdapter setup, Layouts and
Form
Generation
* Default project structure comes with logging support in the
ErrorController
As you will note from the above, this release was very much
community-driven. In addition to these direct contributions of
features,
we also received a ton of bugfixes during our community bug hunt days
the last few months, tons of translations of our manual (particularly
due to the addition of tutorials!), and had countless individuals step
forward to report website issues (that we hopefully resolved with this
release). Please join me in extending a huge thank you to the Zend
Framework community!
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead | [email protected]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc
