Currently, the router has many flaws and drawbacks, which this refactoring is going to solve. This includes usability of the router, as well as performance and code-cleaning. Will be worked out with a mini proposal post 1.8.

This issue is to be solved with ZF 2.0, as it involves many BC-breaks. A quick and short list of possible changes:

• Removing getInstance(), instead __construct($options)
• Making getDefaults(), getDefault() of routes interface methods
• Making getCurrentRoute() and getCurrentRouteName() interface methods
• CS Cleanup
• Using match(Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request) in the interface
• Allowing request-method routing per route