It’s been a long wait for the 1.0 version of the Zend framework! The team has announced the  released of 1.0.0 release candidate version, so the actual release of the actual 1.0 version’s not too far off.

Some noteworthy improvements in this release, include:

• Zend_Filter_Input, a “cage” for validating input data
• Zend_Validate supports user-definable error messages
• Zend_Gdata redesigned interface allows a convenient object-oriented usage
• MVC ViewRenderer makes it much simpler to write controller actions

Download Zend Framework 1.0.0 Release Candidate.