The Zend Framework community has released the 0.2.0 Preview Release. This release contains many important enhancements and new features:

• New MVC implementation
• New HTTP request and response objects make it easy to automate unit testing for web apps without a web server, and also make it possible to use MVC for command-line and PHP-GTK application development
• Enhanced pure PHP Lucene-compatible search engine component
• New Mysqli DB adapter
• New JSON server
• New REST client and server
• New XmlRpc client and server
• New Acl component
• New Session component
• New Web Services clients for Delicious and Audioscrobbler
• New Registry component
• Significant improvements to many other components

You can download this latest release directly from the Zend Framework site.