The Zend Framework team have just released 1.8.4, the fourth maintenance release in the 1.8 series with over 50 bugfixes. There is also a new page now on the website about the framework roadmap and the upcoming 1.9.0 release.
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Right now, we are only detailing the upcoming 1.9.0 release, but expect to see more listings in the future. Currently we are not setting dates for the releases as this is often difficult to predict due to the fact that the releases are largely dependent on contributor schedules — and most contributors are, in the end, volunteering their time. We are, however, targetting 1.9.0 for late July of this year.

The roadmap include actually 11 new feature, but not final, new proposals might be accepted prior to the final release. Features planned so far :

  • Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Rest
  • Zend_Db_Table plugin support
  • Zend_Dojo: Build layer support
  • Zend_Feed_Reader
  • Zend_Form multipage action helper
  • Zend_Ldap
  • Zend_Log factory
  • Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog
  • Zend_Queue
  • Zend_Test_PHPUnit database support
  • Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl

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