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The Zend Framework 1.0 has been released! I have been keeping an eye on/involved in this project since I first heard about it almost 2 years ago. My involvement started out learning the framework and providing feedback. Lately I have joined in the cause to help out with documentation and will continue to do so from now on.

This very blog has been written in Zend Framework. It's 0.8 and I need to upgrade it and refactor it, and I don't have time with my current projects. It will happen soon though!

If your a web application developer, you really have to try Zend Framework out, it has many libraries for fast application development, but allows for much more degree of control than most other frameworks, making it more enterprise family.

The Zend Framework is more a collection of libraries ready for your use, It also gives plenty of abstract classes and interfaces to add on or change the framework to meet your needs. The most notable components of the Zend Framework are it's MVC implementation, a PHP port of Lucene, and a stand alone PDF class. And that's not all!

So give the Zend Framework a look and try it out for your next project! A word before you judge to early, one of the missing components that we couldn't get in to the 1.0 release was a partial view renderer, If you see this as a loss, don't worry it'll most likely be out by the next realease.