As Cal Evans points out on the Zend Developer Zone today, InfoWorld has posted an article that takes a pretty high-level approach to the Zend Framework:

Zend Technologies plans to release its Zend Framework 1.0 product by late May, a company official said at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday.

[...] "The goal of the Zend Framework was to provide a very, very easy-to-use, well-established and supported framework," Gutmans said. But he did note that there are more than 40 PHP frameworks available, including Symfony, Prado, and CakePHP.

The article also mentions the new release will include PDF support with future plans for OpenOffice and Microsoft Office support as well.

You can find all of the information you'll need about the current state of the Zend Framework on the project's website.