Welcome to the Zend Framework 1.8 Preview Release! 
This release showcases features that will be introduced in the final 1.8
release. The intent of this release is to give our users access to the
latest features in Zend Framework and to improve the overall quality of
the production release through the feedback we recieve. In particular,
*your* feedback will help make the Zend Framework 1.8 production release
a success, so please post your comments and questions to the appropriate
mailing list and bring bugs to our attention by creating an issue in our
issue tracker:
https://framework.zend.com/issues
Please note that this release contains a pre-production version of
Zend_Tool. You can use the command line client by running the
appropriate script in the bin directory. 
RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.8 Preview Release (revision [INSERT REV NUM HERE]).
Released on April 7, 2009.
NEW FEATURES
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* Zend_Tool, contributed by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Application, contributed by Ben Scholzen and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Navigation, contributed by Robin Skoglund
* Zend_CodeGenerator, by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Reflection, Ralph Schindler and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend Server backend for Zend_Cache, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2, contributed by Jon Whitcraft
* Zend_Service_Amazon_S3, Justin Plock and Stas Malyshev
* Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Support for file upload progress support in Zend_File_Transfer,
    contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Translation-aware routes, contributed by Ben Scholzen
* Zend_Json expression support, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei and
    Oscar Reales
* Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei
* SOAP input and output header support, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for keyword field search using query strings,
    contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for searching across multiple indexes in Zend_Search_Lucene,
    contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf,
    contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Locale support in Zend_Validate_Int and Zend_Validate_Float,
    contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Phonecode support in Zend_Locale, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner
A detailed list of all features and bug fixes in this release may be found at:
https://framework.zend.com/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=11002
INTENDED USE
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The code in this release provides a 'sneak peek' at features to be
released in the upcoming Zend Framework 1.8 release and is not intended
for production use. Please be aware that the API's introduced in this
release may not be final, and that the Zend Framework team does not
guarantee backwards compatibility to this release in future releases
of Zend Framework. We strongly discourage the use of this preview
release in production environments or for projects that could not
easily be refactored to work with future releases of Zend Framework.
We recommend evaluating these features for use in future projects,
however, and would appreciate any feedback.
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:
https://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 https://framework.zend.com/manual.
Questions that are not addressed in the manual should be directed to the
appropriate mailing list:
https://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:
https://framework.zend.com/issues
If you would like to be notified of new releases- including the
production release of Zend Framework 1.8- you can subscribe to the
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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 https://framework.zend.com.