Release of Zend Framework 1.6

Yesterday evening, while I was celebrating my birthday, the Zend Framework team released version 1.6 of Zend Framework with again a bunch of new features.

Many features that are included in this release were really demanded features by the users of Zend Framework. I just highlight a few of them here.

Dojo Toolkit
Now you can use all the nifty AJAX features right from your framework, so you don't have to load all the library files while you load a page.

Zend Tool
An easy to use command line tool to rapidly deploy Zend Framework projects, making it really easy to create your own skeletons and instantiate all files the way you like it.

File Upload Form Element
If there was a component that was missing from previous versions, it was the ability to upload files through a form component. Well, relax... 1.6 has it.

Captcha Form Element
Now you can add a captcha component to your forms with a breeze. This way your forms will be more or less protected from evil spammers.

WildFire component
For those JavaScripters out there, there was already a great tool for debugging JavaScript code with the Firefox browser, called FireBug. Well, now you can do the same using for PHP using the WildFire component to log right into the FireBug plugin for Firefox.

Other new components are:

• Lucene 2.3 Index File Format Support
• Zend_Session save handler for Database Tables
• Paginator Component
• Figlet Support
• ReCaptcha Servicement
• Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support
• Zend_File_Transfer Component

Besides new features and components, a huge list of open tickets were closed. In short, the whole Zend Framework team have done a great job.

Be sure to check out the Zend Webinar later today: Zend Framework and Dojo Integration by Matthew Weier O'Phinney.

I would like to congratulate the Zend Framework Team and all contributors with this release. Again a huge milestone reached. Thank you all.