Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available

Dec. 2, 2008 - PRLog -- Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available from the Zend Framework download site:

http://framework.zend.com/download/lates
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This release introduces many new components and features, including:

•   Zend_Amf with support for AMF0 and AMF3 protocols
•   Dojo Toolkit 1.2.1
•   Support for dijit editor available in the Dojo Toolkit
•   Zend_Service_Twitter
•   ZendX_JQuery in extras library
•   Metadata API in Zend_Cache
•   Google book search API in Zend_Gdata
•   Preliminary support for GData Protocol v2 in Zend_Gdata
•   Support for skip data processing in Zend_Search_Lucene
•   Support for Open Office XML documents in Zend_Search_Lucene indexer
•   Performance enhancements in Zend_Loader, Zend_Controller, and server components
•   Zend_Mail_Storage_Writable_Maildir enhancements for mail delivery
•   Zend_Tool in incubator
•   Zend_Text_Table for formatting table using characters
•   Zend_ProgressBar
•   Zend_Config_Writer
•   ZendX_Console_Unix_Process in the extras library
•   Zend_Db_Table_Select support for Zend_Paginator
•   Global parameters for routes
•   Using Chain-Routes for Hostname-Routes via Zend_Config
•   I18N improvements
o   Application wide locale for all classes
o   Data retrieving methods are now static
o   Additional cache handling methods in all I18N classes
o   Zend_Translate API simplified
•   File transfer enhancements
o   Support for file elements in subforms
o   Support for multifile elements
o   Support for MAX_FILES_SIZE in form
o   Support for breaking validation chain
o   Support for translation of failure ,messages
o   New IsCompressed, IsImage, ExcludeMimeType, ExcludeExtension validators
o   Support for FileInfo extension in MimeType validator
•   Zend_Db_Table_Select adapater for Zend_Paginator
•   Support for custom adapters in Zend_Paginator
•   More flexible handling of complex types in Zend_Soap

In addition, almost three hundred bugs have been fixed:

http://framework.zend.com/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.js...

The Zend Framework team would like to thank everyone who made this release possible. As always, our generous ZF community has provided countless new features, bug fixes, documentation translations, etc. We'd also like to thank Adobe Systems and Wade Arnold for contributing the new Zend_Amf component. A big thanks to PHP Belgium and everyone who participated in bug hunt day and/or the Zend Framework bug hunt week.

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