On his blog today, Alexander Netkachev has charted out some of the new functionality in the latest version (0.6.0) of the Zend Framework as pertaining to improvements in the Zend_Controller.

Zend Framework 0.6.0 release comes with improvements in Zend_Controller area (new Zend_Controller_Request, Zend_Controller_Response classes, dispatch process improvements), which looks very promising. Dispatching process now better described and its parts (Zend_Controller_Router and Zend_Controller_Dispatcher) are replaceable.

He also includes a diagram of how it's all laid out and a brief description of how each of these new pieces works.