Zend announced availability of the first production release of Zend Framework.

The Zend Framework project has developed solutions to solve frequent needs of web application developers, including the following areas:

• Powerful MVC framework
• Database access solution that balances ORM with efficiency and simplicity
• Lucene-compatible search engine
• Advanced I18N support
• Robust authentication/authorization classes and input filtering
• Rich web services client interfaces
• Many other useful classes to make you as productive as possible
• Thorough and high-quality test suites and documentation
• Open-source development process with an active community provides continuous review and testing

The Zend Framework being licensed under the New BSD license. The Contributor License Agreement assures that all code has been provided freely.