Zend Framework 1.5 Preview Release

Darby has just announced the availability of 1.5 Preview Release!

This is a great time to download it and check out the new features.

From Darby’s post, the main new features are:

  • New Zend_Form component with support for AJAX-enabled form elements
  • New action and view helpers for automating and facilitating AJAX requests and alternate response formats
  • Infocard, OpenID, and LDAP authentication adapters
  • Support for complex Lucene searches, including fuzzy, date-range, and wildcard queries
  • Support for Lucene 2.1 index file format
  • Partial, Placeholder, Action, and Header view helpers for advanced view composition and rendering
  • New Zend_Layout component for automating and facilitating site layouts
  • UTF-8 support for PDF documents
  • New Technorati, SlideShare, and Remember the Milk web services

Also, many of the other components have been improved.

Posted by Rob on 29th January 2008 under News | 1 Comment »

One Response to “Zend Framework 1.5 Preview Release”

  1. jjshell responded on 01 Feb 2008 at 7:39 pm #

    I think it looks great, but unless I’ve missed it there still no component that helps you deal with file upload (MIME type, CHMOD, check size etc.). It’s at the core of many applications. I really miss it. :)