As mentioned both here on the symfony project's website and here on the Zend Developer Zone, a new beta release of the framework has been made - version 1.0 Beta 1.

It's been a long time since the latest beta release (0.7.1915), and even a longer time since the last stable release (0.6.3). Today, we are happy to announce the release of symfony 1.0 Beta 1, and this is a major step towards the version 1.0, which should come shortly.

New features in this release include:

• Easier installation and larger compatibility
• Major performance improvement
• New unit test library
• Easier templating
• Better and more flexible Model layer

Check out these and all of the great features of this popular framework over on their website and grab this latest download from their download page.