1.9.0 Alpha

The Zend Framework team announced the availability of version 1.9.0 preview, which is, as usual, according to ardes: framework.zend.com/download/latest , since the release is not stable, it will not be placed on the CDN. The pre-release features many new features that will be in the upcoming stable release:

• Zend_Rest_Route, Zend_Rest_Controller, and Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler - implement REST using MVC.
• Zend_Feed_Reader - a common API for RSS and Atom feeds, as well as extensions for each format, caching, as well as many other things.
• Zend_Queue and Zend_Service_Amazon_Sqs, which provide the ability to use local and remote message services and the service queue to implement asynchronous processes.
• Updated Zend_Db_Table and Zend_Pdf
• New functionality in Zend_Dojo to create custom layers
• Numerous Zend_Ldap improvements
• Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog - allows you to write a log to the system log.
• Several new view helpers, including Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl.

Release 1.9.0 is formed quite quickly, and the launch of the beta version is expected in
end of next week. Stable release - about a week after the beta.

Again, this is a preliminary release, it is not recommended not to use it on real projects, but nevertheless it will be great if you look at it and report on all the shortcomings and problems caused by its use.