Zend Framework 1.8.0 released!

Zend Framework 1.8.0 has been released. This is the first in the 1.8 series of releases. You can get it here:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

Over 200 bug and feature fixes have been added for this minor
release!

Here is list of the primary feature additions for Zend Framework 1.8.0:

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
Incorporated Dojo 1.3
Added support for arbitrary Dojo Dijits via view helpers
Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Filter_LocalizedToNormalized and _NormalizedToLocalized, 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
Route chaining capabilities, 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
Significant improvements for Zend_Search_Lucene search result match highlighting capabilities, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
Zend_Tag_Cloud, contributed by Ben Scholzen
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_Db_RecordExists and _RecordNotExists, contributed by Ryan Mauger
Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner

I’m looking forward to using this right away! How soon will you be digging in?

Posted by Dave on April 30, 2009 in zend framework