Merge branch 'feature/release-2.0.0beta3'

README.txt

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ Welcome to the Zend Framework 2.0.0 Release!
 
 RELEASE INFORMATION
 ---------------
-Zend Framework 2.0.0beta2
+Zend Framework 2.0.0beta3
 
 THIS RELEASE IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE AND NOT INTENDED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
 PLEASE USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
 
-This is the second in a series of planned beta releases. The beta release
+This is the third in a series of planned beta releases. The beta release
 cycle will follow the "gmail" style of betas, whereby new features will
 be added in each new release, and BC will not be guaranteed; beta
 releases will happen approximately every six weeks. 
@@ -16,55 +16,90 @@ Once the established milestones have been reached and the featureset has
 reached maturity and reasonable stability, we will freeze the API and
 prepare for Release Candidate status.
 
-NEW FEATURES IN BETA2
+NEW FEATURES IN BETA3
 ---------------------
 
-- Refactored Mail component
-  - Does not change existing Storage API, except:
-    - Zend\Mail\MailMessage was moved to Zend\Mail\Storage\MailMessage
-    - Zend\Mail\MailPart was moved to Zend\Mail\Storage\MailPart
-    - Zend\Mail\Message was moved to Zend\Mail\Storage\Message
-    - Zend\Mail\Part was moved to Zend\Mail\Storage\Part
-  - Zend\Mail\Mail was renamed to Zend\Mail\Message
-    - Encapsulates a mail message and all headers
-    - MIME messages are created by attaching a Zend\Mime\Message object as the
-      mail message body
-  - Added Zend\Mail\Address and Zend\Mail\AddressList
-    - Used to represent single addresses and address collections, particularly
-      within mail headers
-  - Added Zend\Mail\Header\* and Zend\Mail\Headers
-    - Representations of mail headers
-  - Zend\Mail\Transport interface defines simply "send(Message $message)"
-    - Smtp, File, and Sendmail transports rewritten to consume Message objects,
-      and to introduce Options classes.
-- Refactored Zend\Cache
-  - Completely rewritten component.
-  - New API features storage adapters and adapter plugins for implementing cache
-    storage and features such as serialization, clearing, and optimizing.
-    - Current adapters include filesystem, APC, memcached, and memory.
-    - All adapters can describe capabilities.
-    - Plugins are implemented as event listeners.
-  - New "Pattern" API created to simplify things like method, class, object, and
-    output caching.
-- MVC updates
-  - Zend\Module\Manager was stripped of most functionality; it now simply
-    iterates requested modules and triggers events.
-  - Former manager functionality such as class loading and instantiation,
-    "init()" triggering, configuration gathering, and autoloader seeding were
-    moved to event listeners.
-  - Post-module loading configuration globbing support was added.
-    - Simplifies story of overriding module configuration.
-  - Recommended filesystem no longer uses plurals for directory names.
-  - Recommendations now include a chdir(__DIR__ . '/../') from the
-    public/index.php file, and specifying configuration paths to be relative to
-    application directory.
-
-In addition, over 100 bug and feature requests were handled since beta1.
+- Refactored Config component (Ben Scholzen, Artur Bodera, Enrico Zimuel, Evan Coury)
+  - All readers moved under Zend\Config\Reader
+    - JSON and YAML readers removed until beta4
+    - New API: 
+      $xml = new Zend\Config\Reader\Xml(); 
+      $config = new Zend\Config\Config($xml->fromFile($filename);
+
+      or:
+      $xml     = new Zend\Config\Reader\Xml(); 
+      $config = $xml->fromFile($filename, true);
+
+      or, simpler:
+      $config = Zend\Config\Factory::fromFile($filename);
+    - All constant injection removed from readers
+      - New Processor API allows processing the retrieved configuration to do
+        optional injection/manipulation of configuration values.
+    - Ability to import other configuration files within a configuration file
+      added.
+  - Factory added, to simplify retrieving configuration from any configuration
+    format supported.
+- New View layer (Matthew Weier O'Phinney)
+  - View layer is now:
+    - Models, for aggregating and representing data to render; models may be
+      nested to represent complex view hierarchies
+    - Renderers, which render templates, using either variables provided or
+      Models
+    - Resolvers, which resolve template names to resources a renderer may
+      consume
+    - View, which allows attaching strategies for determining the renderer to
+      use, as well as how to inject the response when done.
+  - Old Zend_View is now Zend\View\Renderer\PhpRenderer
+    - Composes a Resolver, a PluginBroker (for helpers), a Variables container
+      (for aggregating variables to pass to the view script), and a FilterChain
+      (for output filtering). 
+    - render() now accepts View\Models
+    - allows rendering stacks of templates under the same variable scope, via
+      the addTemplate() mechanism
+    - moves escaping to an Escape view helper; no auto-escaping is enabled
+  - MVC integration
+    - Strategy listeners for:
+      - Handling and returning 404 pages
+      - Handling and returning error pages due to exceptions
+      - RAD support for creation and injection of view models from action
+        controller return values
+    - Addition of a "render" event, executing after "dispatch" and before
+      "finish"
+- New Db layer (Ralph Schindler)
+  - Complete rewrite from the ground up.
+  - New architecture features low-level drivers, which also provide access to
+    the PHP resource being consumed; adapters, which provide basic abstraction
+    for common CRUD operations; new SQL abstraction layer, with full predicate
+    support; abstraction for ResultSet's, with the ability to cast rows to
+    specific object types; abstraction for SQL metadata; and a revised Table and
+    Row Data Gateway.
+- New Zend\Service\AgileZen component (Enrico Zimuel)
+  - Support for the full AgileZen (http://www.agilezen.com) API
+  - Developed for use with http://framework.zend.com/zf2/board 
+- PHP 5.4 support
+  - A number of issues when running ZF2 under PHP 5.4 were identified and
+    corrected.
+- Other components that received attention:
+  - Zend\GData (Maks3w)
+  - Zend\Navigation (Kyle Spraggs, Frank Brückner)
+  - Zend\Session (Mike Willbanks)
+  - Zend\Service\Technorati (Maks3w)
+  - Zend\Service\StrikeIron (Maks3w)
+  - Zend\Service\Twitter (Maks3w)
+  - Zend\Http\Header\Accept* (Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Enrico Zimuel)
+    - Adds support for q priority, level identifiers, and wildcard media and
+      submedia types
+  - Zend\Ldap (Maks3w, Stefah Gehrig)
+  - Zend\Oauth (bakura10)
+  - Zend\Mvc and Zend\Module (Evan Coury, many others)
+
+Around 200 pull requests for a variety of features and bugfixes were handled
+since beta2.
 
 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
 -------------------
 
-Zend Framework 2 requires PHP 5.3 or later; we recommend using the
+Zend Framework 2 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later; we recommend using the
 latest PHP version whenever possible.
 
 INSTALLATION

library/Zend/Version.php

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ final class Version
     /**
      * Zend Framework version identification - see compareVersion()
      */
-    const VERSION = '2.0.0beta2';
+    const VERSION = '2.0.0beta3';
 
     /**
      * The latest stable version Zend Framework available