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The Zend Framework community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 2.0.0beta1.

Packages and installation instructions are available at: http://packages.zendframework.com/

On the Zend Developer Zone today they've announced this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt starting tomorrow (the 25th) and running through Saturday (the 27th):

A number of potential BC issues were identified in the 1.11 series, and specifically in the 1.11.8 release, and as such, the Zend Framework team is releasing version 1.11.9 just one week following 1.11.8.

It is available for immediate download: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

On the Zend Developer Zone today there's a new post from Cal Evans about the SQL ServerJump In Camp that's happening near the Microsoft offices in Seattle.

It's an event bringing together developers from 10+ projects all around the PHP community to work on PHP itself.

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a recent post from Keith Casey about some of the basics of good OOP design, specifically in following the SOLID principles - a set of five guidelines that make code easier to manage and maintain over time.

On the Zend Developer Zone today there's a new post showing how you can cache your application configuration file to boost the performance of your Zend Framework application just a little bit more.

This new post on the Zend Developer Zone (from Ralph Schindler) is announcing this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days starting today (the 26th) and running through Saturday (the 28th).

On the Zend Developer Zone David Coallier has a post about an effort starting up in San Francisco called the HackForGood Evening where developers come together to work on software with the sole purpose of helping make the lives of other people better (those who can't do for themselves).

On the Zend Developer Zone today there's a new post from Keith Casey about some of the design patterns he hates - ones that are misused too often and have become more of a "worst practice" at times than others.

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.11.6, our sixth maintenance release in the 1.11 series, and a simultaneous release of 1.10.9, a security fix release. 1.11.6 includes more than 60 bug fixes and may be downloaded from the Zend Framework site .