Welcome to the Zend Framework 1.9 Release! 

RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.9 Beta 1 Release ([INSERT REV NUM HERE]).
Released on July 28, 2009.

NEW FEATURES
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* Zend_Queue and Zend_Service_Amazon_Sqs, which provide the ability to
  use local and remote messaging and queue services for offloading
  asynchronous processes. (Contributed by Justin Plock and Daniel Lo)

* Zend_Queue_Adapter_PlatformJobQueue, a Zend_Queue adapter for Zend
  Platform's Job Queue. (Contributed by Zend Technologies)

* Zend_Rest_Route, Zend_Rest_Controller, and
  Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler, which aid in providing RESTful
  resources via the MVC layer. (Contributed by Luke Crouch, SourceForge)

* Zend_Feed_Reader, which provides a common API to RSS and Atom feeds,
  as well as extensions to each format, caching, and a slew of other
  functionality. (Contributed by Pádraic Brady)

* Zend_Db_Adapter_Sqlsrv, a Zend_Db adapter for Microsoft's SQL Server
  driver for PHP. (Contributed by Juozas Kaziukenas and Rob Allen)

* Zend_Db_Table updates to allow using Zend_Db_Table as a concrete
  class by passing it one or more table definitions via the
  constructor. (Contributed by Ralph Schindler)

* Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db, which provides Zend_Db support for PHPUnit's
  DBUnit support, allowing developers to do functional and integration
  testing against databases using data fixtures. (Contributed by
  Benjamin Eberlei)

* Annotation processing support for Zend_Pdf, as well as performance
  improvements. (Contributed by Alexander Veremyev)

* Zend_Dojo custom build layer support. (Contributed by Matthew Weier
  O'Phinney)

* Dojo upgraded to 1.3.2.

* Numerous Zend_Ldap improvements, including full support for CRUD
  operations, search, and manipulating tree structures. (Contributed by
  Stefan Gehrig)

* Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog, a Zend_Log writer for writing to your system
  log. (Contributed by Thomas Gelf)

* Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl, a view helper for returning the current base
  URL to your application, as well as for constructing URLs to public
  resources. (Contributed by Robin Skoglund and Geoffrey Tran)

* Zend_Date now has support for the DateTime extension. (Contributed by
  Thomas Weidner)

* Zend_Locale has been upgraded to CLDR 1.7. (Contributed by Thomas
  Weidner)

* Zend_Translate now has plurals support for the Gettext, Csv, and Array
  adapters. (Contributed by Thomas Weidner)

* PHP 5.3 compatibility, including support for new features in the
  mysqli extension. All components are fully tested on both PHP 5.2.x
  and PHP 5.3.0.

In addition, a large number of smaller improvements were made throughout
the framework, and around 700 issues have been resolved or closed since
the release of 1.8.0!

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

    http://framework.zend.com/changelog/1.9.0rc1

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 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/display/ZFDEV/Mailing+Lists

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

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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, and you, the Zend Framework user.
Please visit us sometime soon at http://framework.zend.com.