Just in time for An Samhain (that’s Halloween for non-Irish folk ;-)).

The new preview contains a raft of changes to almost all components. Of particular interest are the major changes incl. the new MVC implementation and the addition of some much welcome components like a Request, Response, Session and Registry. The list posted to the mailing list follows…

* New MVC implementation
* New HTTP request and response objects make it easy to automate
unit testing for web apps without a web server, and also make it
possible to use MVC for command-line and PHP-GTK application development
* Enhanced pure PHP Lucene-compatible search engine component
* New Mysqli DB adapter
* New JSON server
* New REST client and server
* New XmlRpc client and server
* New Acl component
* New Session component
* New Web Services clients for Delicious and Audioscrobbler
* New Registry component
* Significant improvements to many other components
* Lots of new documentation and translations

A lot of these are only available in the incubator (not in the core library directory) but are quite ready for trial and testing. If you are upgrading, the fact that many new components have not moved directly to the core should give all a better chance of coming to grips with the changes to commonly used components from 0.15 before looking in the deep end called “Incubator” for everything on the list above.

I would advise users to check the updated Manual for changes to the core components. Zend Framework Manual