Zend Framework 2.0.0beta3 Released!

The third beta release has been released today. According to the developers, new features will be added to each release until the product reaches “maturity”, after which the development will freeze and release the Release Candidate. It is planned to release new versions every 6 weeks.

List of innovations and changes:

• Config Component Refactoring
• All settings have been moved to the Zend \ Config \ Reader namespace;
• Zend \ Config \ Factory has been added to make it easier to get an array from the configuration file;
• Existing configuration formats now support importing additional configuration files;
• All processing constants have been ported to the Zend \ Config \ Processor namespace.

New layer View

• New subcomponents include Zend \ View \ Model, Zend \ View \ Resolver, Zend \ View \ Renderer, and Zend \ View \ Strategy;
• The Zend_View component has been moved to Zend \ View \ Renderer \ PhpRenderer, and rewritten to distribute its responsibilities to subcomponents for more flexible use;
• New class Zend \ View \ View, supporting selective rendering of templates;
• MVC simplifies the use of standard components, such as creating views, error pages and other things;

Rewritten DB work layer
New AgileZen component

• Full support for the AgileZen API
• Designed to use framework.zend.com/zf2/board

PHP 5.4 Support

• Found and fixed all the errors when working with version PHP 5.4

The current beta release affected such components as Zend \ GData, Zend \ Navigation, Zend \ Session, Zend \ Service \ StrikeIron, Zend \ Service \ Technorati, Zend \ Service \ Twitter, Zend \ Http \ Header \ Accept *, Zend \ Ldap, Zend \ OAuth. Fixed more than 200 errors since the release of the second beta.

A source
Installation packages are available at http://packages.zendframework.com