Zend Framework:

Le Zend Framework est un framework pour PHP 5 créé par Zend. Il est distribué sous la New BSD license. Le Zend Framework, aussi nommé ZF, a été développé dans le but de simplifier le développement Web tout en recommandant les bonnes pratiques et la conception orientée objets en offrant des outils puissants aux développeurs.

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La version final de Zend Framework 1.7 vient juste de sortir.

Celle-ci est disponible sur le site de Zend Framework.

Pour ce qui est des nouveautés :

Zend_Amf with support for AMF0 and AMF3 protocols
Dojo Toolkit 1.2.1
Support for dijit editor available in the Dojo Toolkit
ZendX_JQuery in extras library (see extras folder in the full package)
Metadata API in Zend_Cache
Google book search API in Zend_Gdata
Preliminary support for GData Protocol v2 in Zend_Gdata
Support for skip data processing in Zend_Search_Lucene
Support for Open Office XML documents in Zend_Search_Lucene indexer
Performance enhancements in Zend_Loader, Zend_Controller, and server components
Zend_Mail_Storage_Writable_Maildir enhancements for mail delivery
Zend_Tool in incubator (see incubator folder in the full package)
Zend_Text_Table for formatting table using characters
Zend_ProgressBar
Zend_Config_Writer
ZendX_Console_Unix_Process in the extras library
Zend_Db_Table_Select support for Zend_Paginator
Global parameters for routes
Using Chain-Routes for Hostname-Routes via Zend_Config
I18N improvements

• Application wide locale for all classes
• Data retrieving methods are now static
• Additional cache handling methods in all I18N classes
• Zend_Translate API simplified

File transfer enhancements

• Support for file elements in subforms
• Support for multifile elements
• Support for MAX_FILES_SIZE in form
• Support for breaking validation chain
• Support for translation of failure ,messages
• New IsCompressed, IsImage, ExcludeMimeType, ExcludeExtension validators
• Support for FileInfo extension in MimeType validator

Zend_Db_Table_Select adapater for Zend_Paginator
Support for custom adapters in Zend_Paginator
More flexible handling of complex types in Zend_Soap

Plus de détails sur : http://framework.zend.com/issues/