Welcome to Zend Framework 1.6.2! This is the second maintenance release in the 
Zend Framework 1.6 series. This release maintains backwards compatibility
with all Zend Framework 1.x releases.

RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.6.2 (11917).
Released on 2008-10-13.

NEW FEATURES
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* Dojo Integration
    - JSON-RPC Server
    - dojo.data Envelopes
    - 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 Laboratory (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
* Captcha Form Element
* Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support 
* Zend_File_Transfer Component
* File Upload Form Element
* Zend_Wildfire Component with FireBug Log Writer
* 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=10862

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/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:

http://framework.zend.com/issues

If you would like to be notified of new releases- including further
maintenance releases of Zend Framework 1.6- you can subscribe to the fw-announce
mailing list by sending a blank message to fw-announce-subscribe@lists.zend.com.

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!