Hi, All these new features are great. But for me especially, the version-based documentation and the new zend tool are the best.
Huge thanks to all of the developers and the community! On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
