Zend Framework 1.8.0 released

[weierophinney]

Greetings!

I'm pleased to announce the Zend Framework 1.8.0 release, the first in our
1.8 series of releases. This release marks the culmination of several
long-standing projects, as well as a formalization of many of our
recommended practices. You can get it here:

    http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

The number of community contributions and bug fixes for 1.8.0 has been
phenomenal -- we logged well over 200 bug/feature fixes for this minor
releaes alone!

Below is a list of the primary feature additions for the release.

  * Zend_Tool, contributed by Ralph Schindler
  * Zend_Application, contributed by Ben Scholzen and
    Matthew Weier O'Phinney
  * Zend_Loader_Autoloader and Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource,
    contributed by Matthew Weier O'Phinney
  * Zend_Navigation, contributed by Robin Skoglund
  * Zend_CodeGenerator, by Ralph Schindler
  * Zend_Reflection, Ralph Schindler and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
  * Zend Server backend for Zend_Cache, contributed by
    Alexander Veremyev
  * Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2, contributed by Jon Whitcraft
  * Zend_Service_Amazon_S3, Justin Plock and Stas Malyshev
  * Incorporated Dojo 1.3
  * Added support for arbitrary Dojo Dijits via view helpers
  * Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Zend_Filter_LocalizedToNormalized and _NormalizedToLocalized,
    contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Support for file upload progress support in Zend_File_Transfer,
    contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Translation-aware routes, contributed by Ben Scholzen
  * Route chaining capabilities, contributed by Ben Scholzen
  * Zend_Json expression support, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei and
    Oscar Reales
  * Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei
  * SOAP input and output header support, contributed by
    Alexander Veremyev
  * Support for keyword field search using query strings, contributed by
    Alexander Veremyev
  * Support for searching across multiple indexes in Zend_Search_Lucene,
    contributed by Alexander Veremyev
  * Significant improvements for Zend_Search_Lucene search result match
    highlighting capabilities, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
  * Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf,
    contributed by Alexander Veremyev
  * Zend_Tag_Cloud, contributed by Ben Scholzen
  * Locale support in Zend_Validate_Int and Zend_Validate_Float,
    contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Phonecode support in Zend_Locale, contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists and _RecordNotExists, contributed by
    Ryan Mauger
  * Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
  * Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner

Please join me in a hearty round of congratualations and acknowledgement of
all contributors who helped make this release possible through code
contributions, feedback, testing, documentation, translations, and issue
reports!

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead            | matthew@...
Zend Framework          | http://framework.zend.com/