Two days ago Matthew Weier O’Phinney officialy announced Zend Framework 1.10.0 Beta 1 release. Since this is beta release, it means that new features and APIs are considered to be complete, only bugfixes can be made.
We have been already informing our readers about new features in ZF 1.10. To summarize, the following are new features:
- 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
- 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 – 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
Final release of Zend Framework 1.10 is planned for 26th of January.
Last Thursday Zend Framework 1.9.7 has been released. This is a maintenance release in 1.9 series, most likely the last one in the series.
The package is not available yet on official Zend Framework website, but it has been already tagged and anyone can checkout it from SVN repository: http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/tags/release-1.9.7/
1.9.7 fixes more than 60 issues. Full list of resolved issues can be found in changelog: http://framework.zend.com/changelog/1.9.7
Matthew Weier O’Phinney has announced Zend Framework 1.10 alpha 1 release and it’s roadmap. We should expect to see final release on 21st of January, 2010.
Scope of the release is not yet know as new code is still being commited, but at least the following new features will be present:
- 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_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
- Zend_Log_Writer_ZendMonitor, contributed by Matthew Weier O’Phinney
- Zend_Markup, contributed by Pieter Kokx
- 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
Please read the announcement to see what can you expect from Zend Framework 1.10 in terms of features and releases dates.
Right after November’s Bug Hunt Days new minor version of Zend Framework has been releases – 1.9.6. This is a maintenance release in 1.9 series, and most likely the last one in the series, as Zend Framework team is preparing for 1.10.
1.9.6 fixes more than 60 bugs, most of them from Bug Hunt Days. Full list of resolved issues can be found in changelog: http://framework.zend.com/changelog/1.9.6
Migrating Zend Framework to new major release was always tricky. You had to carefully check which components has been changed and then search for detailed description of migration of each component (usually in manual). This process was not only time consuming but also error prone. Fortunately for all of us Thomas Weidner wrote:
For Zend Framework 1.10 I changed this.
Now there is a single migration chapter within the appendix where you can find all migration notes from all releases and all components at one place.
When you want to migrate from 1.9 to 1.10 then you can now read in a single chapter and have all changes at one place.
Maybe it does not look like big change, but for all developers using Zend Framework it is huge improvement. Thank you Thomas.
