Tested Version is current Trunk Revision 15543

All Modul-Boostraps receive the options set directly to the application-bootstrap.

class Test_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap {
    protected function _initOptionDump () {
        var_dump ($this->getOptions());
    }
}

output

array
  'bootstrap' => 
    array
      'class' => string 'Bootstrap' (length=9)
      'path' => string '/path/to/Bootstrap.php' (length=57)
  'resources' => 
    array
      'frontController' => 
        array
          'prefixDefaultModule' => string '1' (length=1)
          'throwExceptions' => string '1' (length=1)
          'moduleDirectory' => string 'modules' (length=7)
      'view' => 
        array
          'strictVars' => string '1' (length=1)
          'encoding' => string 'utf-8' (length=5)
      'layout' => 
        array
          'layoutPath' => string 'views/scripts' (length=13)
          'mvcSuccessfulActionOnly' => string '1' (length=1)
      'modules' => string '' (length=0)
      'db' => 
        array
          'adapter' => string 'pdo_sqlite' (length=10)
          'isDefaultTableAdapter' => string '1' (length=1)
          'params' => 
            array
              ...
  'test' => 
    array
      'test' => string 'test' (length=4)
  'includepaths' => 
    array
      'zend' => string '/path/to/Zend' (length=39)
  'test' => string 'test' (length=4)

With XML-Config

Bootstrap11modules1utf-8views/scripts1pdo_sqlite1main.sqlitetest

As you can see the String "test" for key "test" is correctly assign, but also all others, which should not be in there.