Zend Framework 1.5 is on its way

Darby Felton posted on the Zend Framework General mailing list today with a schedule for the Zend Framework 1.5 "Preview Release" (essentially a beta version).

The code freeze for this release is planned for Tuesday, January 22 at
21:00 (PST). Upon commencement of the code freeze, nothing should be
merged to the upcoming 1.5 release branch without approval from one of
the Zend team (Alex, Matthew, Wil, or myself). Development may of course
continue in the trunk as usual, and the release branch code freeze would
be lifted as soon as the release is made available. :)

Some of the new features that should arrive in 1.5 are:

• Zend_Layout


• Zend_Form


• The new command line tools / build system


• Improvments to Zend_View


• New helpers for Zend_Controller including the AjaxContext helper


• And many more...

All in all, this should prove to be quite an exciting release. Personally, I am looking forward to Zend_Form and the new command line tools - these should cut down development time by a fair margin.