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Last Wednesday Zend Framework 1.10.1 stable has been released. This is first maintenance release in 1.10 series. The release includes over 50 bugfixes (see changelog for details).

In addition, few feature has been added to online manual. Manual pages can be now commented, also by casual users.

Rob Allen has updated his famous Zend Framework tutorial to cover changes made in last week release of ZF 1.10.

As a result, I have updated my Zend Framework tutorial so that it is completely current. The main change I made was to remove the _init methods in the Bootstrap as they are no longer needed. I also take advantage of the new features of the zf tool to enable layouts and create forms. It’s a shame that it gets the class name of the form wrong though!

It’s worth mentioning that Rob is writing and constantly updating his tutorial since Zend Framework 1.0 release, and it’s probably most popular ZF tutorial on the web.

Last Wednesday Zend Framework 1.10.0 stable has been released. This is first release of new 1.10 series and it includes lots of new features and components. Prior to upgrading your environment please read official announcement and migration manual.

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.

Zend_Currency component has been completely rewritten in Zend Framework 1.10. Thomas Weidner, author of new implementation, writes on his blog about new Zend_Currency features and gives few practical examples of component’s usage.

Zend_Currency is now able not only to render a currency but you can also calculate currency values with it. Several methods have been added to support you by this task. (…) As mentioned before Zend_Currency adds a new feature exchanging. This means that it allows to use Exchange Services. The idea behind is that there are several available online exchange services which can convert a currency into another. By using such a service Zend_Currency is able to convert currencies when needed.

Read the full story and see how new Zend_Currency component can help you in development of financial, e-commerce and similar applications.