The Zend Developer Zone has posted the announcement that the latest beta version of the Zend's popular Zend Platform for Windows is now available:

Windows Package is available on-line, and the updated User Guide, Installation Guide, Release Notes and System Requirements are available at: http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform/zend_platform_3_0_beta.

Updates in this new release include:

• PHP 5.2 Support
• Job Queues
• Performance Enhancements – including Performance Tuning page
• PHP Configuration Control enhancements

as well as the inclusion of session clustering, multi-node installation ability, and memory/load events.