Welcome to the Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release! This release showcases features
that will be introduced in the final 1.7 release. The intent of this release is to
give our users access to the latest features in Zend Framework and to improve the
overall quality of the production release through the feedback we recieve. In
particular, *your* feedback will help make the Zend Framework 1.7 production release
a success, so please post your comments and questions to the appropriate mailing list
and bring bugs to our attention by creating an issue in our issue tracker:

http://framework.zend.com/issues

RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release (revision [INSERT REV NUM HERE]). Released on
2008-10-13.

NEW FEATURES
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* Zend_AMF
* Dojo Toolkit 1.2.0
* ZendX_JQuery
* Support for dijit editor
* Metadata API in Zend_Cache
* Google book search API
* Performance enhancements
* Application-wide locale with other i18n enhancements
* File upload form element enhancements

A detailed list of all features and bug fixes in this release may be found at:

http://framework.zend.com/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10864

INTENDED USE
------------

The code in this release provides a 'sneak peek' at features to be released in the
upcoming Zend Framework 1.7 release and is not intended for production use. Please be
aware that the API's introduced in this release may not be final, and that the Zend
Framework team does not guarantee backwards compatibility to this release in future
releases of Zend Framework. We strongly discourage the use of this preview
release in production environments or for projects that could not easily be
refactored to work with future releases of Zend Framework. We recommend
evaluating these features for use in future projects, however, and would appreciate
any feedback.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Zend Framework requires PHP 5.1.4 or later. Please see our reference guide for more
detailed system requirements:

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html

INSTALLATION
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Please see /INSTALL.txt.

QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK
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Online documentation can be found at http://framework.zend.com/manual. Questions that
are not addressed in the manual should be directed to the appropriate mailing list:

http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/GgE#ContributingtoZendFramework-
Subscribetotheappropriatemailinglists

If you find code in this release behaving in an unexpected manner or contrary to its
documented behavior, please create an issue in the Zend Framework issue tracker at:

http://framework.zend.com/issues

If you have not done so already, you must email cla@zend.com with your issue tracker
username requesting issue posting privileges.
If you would like to be notified of new releases- including the production release of
Zend Framework 1.7- you can subscribe to the fw-announce mailing list by sending a
blank message to fw-announce-subscribe@lists.zend.com.

LICENSE
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The files in this archive are released under the Zend Framework license. You can find
a copy of this license in /LICENSE.txt.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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The Zend Framework team would like to thank all the contributors to the Zend
Framework project, our corporate sponsor (Zend Technologies), and you- the Zend
Framework user. Please visit us sometime soon at http://framework.zend.com. Now have
at it!