ZF 2 is currently under heavy development (beta4 should be coming out this week). There are many commits and merged pull requests every day. That's great! I like trying new stuff. I even based some schoolwork on ZF2 beta2.

But! There are many ZF 1 applications in the wild. And because there won't be an easy migration path to ZF 2 (except for the complete rewrite), I suppose that many people will have to support ZF 1 apps for at least a few more years. It would be nice to have some rock-solid ZF 1 version to which those apps could be upgraded (ZF 1.11.11 was released 8 months ago).

Zend Framework 1.12

(this text is influenced by the fact, that I have upgraded our app to ZF 1 trunk with a plan to swap it with the 1.12 final by the end of April)

ZF team announced another release in ZF 1 branch – 1.12. It should be the last minor version for ZF1. It was supposed to be released in April…and still isn't here by the end of May. It somehow feels as if the Zend said „ZF 2 is the topmost priority, ZF 1.12 isn't.“.

On the other hand, Adam Lundrigan and Rob Allen are doing amazing work on closing ZF1 issues. But there are still 105 unresolved issues marked as „FixForZF1.12“ (most of them with patches)

I wonder when the 1.12 is coming out. I even think it would be better to release it now, even if there are some unresolved issues – most of them were there for a long time. I would prefer to have 1.12 with many fixed issues soon (followed by 1.12.1 later), than perfect 1.12.0 for Christmas. I suggest moving back to faster relase cycle (maintenance release every month) – 1.11.12 was promised to bude released in October 2011.

But if I can choose, I'd like to have at least the following patched issues fixed in ZF 1.12.0 (most of them should be just „apply patch&commit“) :)

List of issues I somehow got involved in:

Patched issues

• ZF-10690 – Zend_Validate_E­mailAddress setMessage does not work properly
• ZF-10803 – Form ID overrides Fieldset ID and causes dupe IDs
• ZF-12113 – Zend_Test error messages should be more verbose
• ZF-12207 – Remove Zend_Service_Simpy
• ZF-12213 – Zend_Validate – Writing Validators – outdated
• ZF-12214 – Zend_Cache_Bac­kend_File – improve error messages for cache_dir
• ZF-12215 – Typos in Zend_Controller_Ac­tion_Helper_Re­director docblocks

Issues for ZF1 failing tests

• ZF-5024 – Symlink function fail causes Zend_OpenId_Con­sumer to fail
• ZF-12201 – Zend_Filter_HtmlEn­titiesTest fails on Windows
• ZF-12202 – Some Zend_Http_UserAgent test fail on Windows
• ZF-12179 – Zend_Loader_Clas­sMapAutoloader­Test fails – cannot load from Phar
• ZF-12197 – Zend_Locale_For­matTest::testIs­Float fails in localized environment
• ZF-12199 – Zend_Locale_For­matTest::testIs­Date fails on localized environment

Just reported

• ZF-8211 – Zend_Tool should use autoloader in Project Context
• ZF-12209 – Many dead links in documentation
• ZF-12218 – Classmap won't be in next ZF release – update docs