A lot of additions. Including something from jQuery (the Javascript framework that saves lives). Here is a quote from Zend’s official statement.

Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available from the Zend Framework download site: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

This release introduces many new components and features, including:

* Zend_Amf with support for AMF0 and AMF3 protocols
* Dojo Toolkit 1.2.1
* Support for dijit editor available in the Dojo Toolkit
* Zend_Service_Twitter
* ZendX_JQuery in extras library
* Metadata API in Zend_Cache
* Google book search API in Zend_Gdata
* Preliminary support for GData Protocol v2 in Zend_Gdata
* Support for skip data processing in Zend_Search_Lucene
* Support for Open Office XML documents in Zend_Search_Lucene indexer
* Performance enhancements in Zend_Loader, Zend_Controller, and server components
* Zend_Mail_Storage_Writable_Maildir enhancements for mail delivery
* Zend_Tool in incubator
* Zend_Text_Table for formatting table using characters
* Zend_ProgressBar
* Zend_Config_Writer
* ZendX_Console_Unix_Process in the extras library
* Zend_Db_Table_Select support for Zend_Paginator

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