Hot on the heels of the original Preview Release of their framework, Zend has released their latest version - Zend Framework Preview 0.1.2.

Not even a week past our initial release and we have already updated the preview thanks to many great emails and especially our growing community on the mailing list. This release includes bug fixes, the unit test suite, and additional documentation.

The response from the our first release was overwhelmingly positive and we're upgrading our servers to cover the demand so we can open the Subversion repository shortly -- we expected the demand to be high but it exceeded even our expectations. The response from the community has been amazing with several new contributors signing on to submit code and new proposals on the table. This will be the first of many frequent updates on the road to 1.0. Please see the changelog included with the new download and enjoy the release!

Some improvements that have been made in this latest release include:

• the inclusion of a unit test suite
• documentation for the Zend_controller
• updates to the coding standards
• fixes to the Zend_Filter methods
• and several others...

You can download this latest release from the Zend Framework site. You can also check out this post on Mike Naberezny's blog for more info.