Cal Evans over the Zend Developer Zone has announced the beta release of Zend Platform 3.0 for Windows. He says, this Window package is available on-line, and the updated user guide, installation guide, release notes and system requirements are available here. He also informs you that the version requires Zend Core 2.
The new features of this release are:
- PHP 5.2 Support
- Installation massive improvements (flow, detection, correctness)
- Session Clustering High-Availability mode
- Job Queues
- SNMP Traps Support
- Actuate BIRT Reporting integration
- Performance Enhancements – including Performance Tuning page
- Dynamic Content Caching Regular Expression Support
- PHP Configuration Control enhancements
- Web Services Enabled
- GUI usability updates
Additionally, he lists out three features that are supported in the Windows release. They include:
- Session Clustering
- Multi node (cluster) installation
- Memory and Load events are supported in PHP Intelligence