Welcome to Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1! This release may meet quality
guidelines for production use but has not been fully tested by the Zend Framework
community for production use.
To help us deliver a stable Zend Framework 1.6 GA release soon, please post your
comments and questions to the appropriate mailing list and bring any bugs to our
attention in the Zend Framework issue tracker:

http://framework.zend.com/issues

RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 (revision 10254).
Released on 2008-07-21.


NEW FEATURES
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* Dojo Integration
    - JSON-RPC
    - Dojo Data packing
    - Dojo View Helper
    - Dijit integration with Zend_Form & Zend_View
    - Dojo Library Distribution
* SOAP
    - SOAP Server
    - SOAP Client
    - Autodiscovery
    - WSDL access
    - WSDL Generation
* Preview of Tooling Project in Laborator (see /laboratory folder)
    - Command Line Interface
    - Project Asset Management
* Unit Testing Harness for Controllers
* Lucene 2.3 Index File Format Support
* Zend_Session save handler for Database Tables
* Paginator Component
* Text/Figlet Support
* ReCaptcha Service
* Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support
* Character Set Option for DB Adapters 
* Zend File Transfer Component
* New Media View Helpers (Flash, Quicktime, Object, and Page)
* Support in Zend_Translate for INI File Format

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=10794

INTENDED USE
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The Zend Framework community does not recommend this release for production use.
Please be aware that the API's introduced in this release may not be final and
the Zend Framework community does not guarantee backwards compatibility to this
release in future releases of Zend Framework. Once a release candidate is
sanctioned by the ZF community as a GA release, Zend Technologies and the ZF community
will make every effort to maintain backwards compatibility.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Zend Framework requires PHP 5.1.4 or later and works best with 5.2.3 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

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