Zend Framework 1.10.0alpha1 Released

Those monitoring the Zend Framework SVN during the past few weeks likely noticed a huge surge of activity as contributors scrambled to complete code in time for the 1.10.0 release. The release is getting close, and an ALPHA release of 1.10.0 is now available on the ZF site (http://framework.zend.com/download/latest)–not from the zend.com CDN.

New features include:

* Zend_Barcode, contributed by Mickael Perraud

* Zend_Cache_Backend_Static, contributed by Pdraic Brady

* Zend_Cache_Manager, contributed by Pdraic Brady

* Zend_Exception – previous exception support, contributed by Marc Bennewitz

* Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub, contributed by Pdraic Brady

* Zend_Feed_Writer, contributed by Pdraic 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

In addition, Zend_Tool has had undergone a ton of refactoring to eliminate issues and bottlenecks, as well as to add a number of new features.