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Welcome to the Zend Framework 1.11 Release!
Zend Framework 1.11.11 Release (r24485). Released on September 29, 2011.
This release includes a patch that helps prevent SQL injection attacks in applications using the MySQL PDO driver of PHP while using non-ASCII compatible encodings. Developers using ASCII-compatible encodings like UTF8 or latin1 are not affected by this PHP issue, which is described in more detail here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47802
The PHP Group included a feature in PHP 5.3.6+ that allows any character set information to be passed as part of the DSN in PDO to allow both the database as well as the c-level driver to be aware of which charset is in use which is of special importance when PDO's quoting mechanisms are utilized, which Zend Framework also relies on.
Our patch ensures that any charset information provided to the Zend_Db PDO MySQL adapter will be sent to PDO both as part of the DSN as well as in a SET NAMES query. This ensures that any developer using ZF on PHP 5.3.6+ while using non-ASCII compatible encodings is safe from SQL injection while using the PDO's quoting mechanisms or emulated prepared statements.
If you are using non-ASCII compatible encodings, like GBK, we strongly urge you to consider upgrading to at least PHP 5.3.6 and use Zend Framework version 1.11.6 or 1.10.9
Mobile Support:
Zend Framework 1.11 marks the first release with explicit support
for mobile devices, via the new component Zend_Http_UserAgent. This
component was developed by Raphael Carles, CTO of Interakting.
Zend_Http_UserAgent performs two responsibilities:
* User-Agent detection
* Device capabilities detection, based on User-Agent
The component includes a "features" adapter mechanism that allows
developers to tie into different backends for the purpose of
discovering device capabilities. Currently, ships with adapters for
the WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource File) API, TeraWURFL, and
DeviceAtlas.
* Note: Luca Passani, author and lead of the WURFL project, has
provided an exemption to Zend Framework to provide a non-GPL
adapter accessing the WURFL PHP API.
Additional hooks into the component are provided via a
Zend_Application resource plugin, and a Zend_View helper, allowing
developers the ability to return output customized for the detected
device (e.g., alternate layouts, alternate images, Flash versus
HTML5 support, etc.).Zend_Cloud: SimpleCloud API:
During ZendCon 2009, Zend announced a prototype of the SimpleCloud
API. This API was to provide hooks into cloud-based document
storage, queue services, and file storage.
Zend Framework 1.11.0 markes the first official, stable release of
Zend_Cloud, Zend Framework's PHP version of the SimpleCloud API.
Current support includes:
* Document Services:
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Windows Azure's Table Storage
* Queue Services:
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Windows Azure's Queue Service
- All adapters supported by Zend_Queue:
* Zend Platform JobQueue
* Memcacheq
* Relational Database
* ActiveMQ
* Storage Services:
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Windows Azure's Blog Storage
- Nirvanix
- Local filesystem
When using any of the SimpleCloud APIs, your code will be portable
across the various adapters provided, allowing you to pick and
choose your services, as well as try different services until you
find one that suits your application or business needs.
Additionally, if you find you need to code adapter-specific
features, you can drop down to the specific adapter in order to do
so.
More adapters will be arriving in the coming months, giving you even
more options!
We thank Wil Sinclair and Stas Malyshev for their assistance in the
initial releases of Zend_Cloud.Security:
Several classes in Zend Framework were patched to eliminate the
potential for leaking timing information from the direct comparison
of sensitive data such as plaintext passwords or cryptographic
signatures to user input. These leaks arise from the normal process
of comparing any two strings in PHP. The nature of the leaks is that
strings are often compared byte by byte, with a negative result
being returned early as soon as any set of non-matching bytes is
detected. The more bytes that are equal (starting from the first
byte) between both sides of the comparison, the longer it takes for
a final result to be returned. Based on the time it takes to return
a negative or positive result, it is possible that an attacker
could, over many samples of requests, craft a string that compares
positively to another secret string value known only to a target
server simply by guessing the string one byte at a time and
measuring each guess' execution time. This server secret could be a
plaintext password or the correct cryptographic signature of a
request the attacker wants to execute, such as is used in several
open protocols including OpenID and OAuth. This could obviously
enable an attacker to gain sufficient information to perform a
secondary attack such as masquerading as an authenticated user.
This form of attack is known as a Remote Timing Attack. Timing
Attacks have been problematic in the past but to date have been very
difficult to perform remotely over the internet due to the
interference of network jitter which limits their effectiveness in
resolving very small timing differences. While the internet still
poses a challenge to performing successful Timing Attacks against a
remote server, the increasing use of frameworks on local networks
and in cloud computing, where network jitter may be significantly
reduced, raises the distinct possibility that remote Timing Attacks
will become feasible against ever smaller timing information leaks,
such as those leaked when comparing any two strings. As a
precaution, the applied changes implement a fixed time comparison
for several classes which would be attractive targets in any
potential remote Timing Attack. A fixed time comparison function
does not leak any timing information useful to an attacker thus
proactively preventing any future vulnerability to these forms of
attack.
We thank Padraic Brady for his efforts in identifying and patching
these vulnerabilities.SimpleDB Support:
Zend Framework has provided support for Amazon's Simple Storage
Service (S3), Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Elastic Cloud Compute
(EC2) platforms for several releases. Zend Framework 1.11.0 adds
support for SimpleDB, Amazon's non-relational document storage
database offering. Support is available for all SimpleDB operations
via Zend_Service_Amazon_SimpleDb.
Zend Framework's SimpleDB adapter was originally written by Wil
Sinclair.eBay Findings API Support:
eBay has an extensive REST API, allowing developers to build
applications interacting with their extensive data. Zend Framework
1.11.0 includes Zend_Service_Ebay_Findings, which provides complete
support for the eBay Findings API. This API allows developers to
query eBay for details on active auctions, using categories or
keywords.
Zend_Service_Ebay was contributed by Renan de Lima and Ramon
Henrique Ornelas.New Configuration Formats:
Zend_Config has been a quite popular component in Zend Framework,
and has offerred adapters for PHP arrays, XML, and INI configuration
files. Zend Framework 1.11.0 now offers two additional configuration
formats: YAML and JSON.
Zend_Config_Yaml provides a very rudimentary YAML-parser that should
work with most configuration formats. However, it also allows you to
specify an alternate YAML parser if desired, allowing you to lever
tools such as PECL's ext/syck or Symfony's YAML component, sfYaml.
Zend_Config_Json leverages the Zend_Json component, and by extension
ext/json.
Both adapters have support for PHP constants, as well as provide the
ability to write configuration files based on configuration objects.
Stas Malyshev created both adapters for Zend Framework;
Zend_Config_Json also had assistance from Sudheer Satyanarayana.URL Shortening:
Zend_Service_ShortUrl was added for this release. The component
provides a simple interface for use with most URL shortening
services, defining simply the methods "shorten" and "unshorten".
Adapters for the services http://is.gd, http://jdem.cz,
http://metamark.net, and http://tinyurl.com, are provided with this
release.
Zend_Service_ShortUrl was contributed by Martin Hujer.Additional View Helpers:
Several new view helpers are now exposed:
* Zend_View_Helper_UserAgent ties into the Zend_Http_UserAgent
component, detailed above. It gives you access to the UserAgent
instance, allowing you to query for the device and capabilities.
* Zend_View_Helper_TinySrc is an additional portion of Zend
Framework's mobile offering for version 1.11.0. The helper ties
into the TinySrc API, allowing you to a) provide device-specific
image sizes and formats for your site, and b) offload generation
of those images to this third-party service. The helper creates
img tags pointing to the service, and provides options for
specifying adaptive sizing and formats.
* Zend_View_Helper_Gravatar ties into the Gravatar API, allowing you
to provide avatar images for registered users that utilize the
Gravatar service. This helper was contributed by Marcin Morawski.A detailed list of all features and bug fixes in this release may be found at:
http://framework.zend.com/changelog/
Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 or later. Please see our reference guide for more detailed system requirements:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html
Please see INSTALL.txt.
Online documentation can be found at http://framework.zend.com/manual. Questions that are not addressed in the manual should be directed to the appropriate mailing list:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Mailing+Lists
If you find code in this release behaving in an unexpected manner or contrary to its documented behavior, please create an issue in the Zend Framework issue tracker at:
http://framework.zend.com/issues
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The files in this archive are released under the Zend Framework license. You can find a copy of this license in LICENSE.txt.
The Zend Framework team would like to thank all the contributors to the Zend Framework project, our corporate sponsor, and you, the Zend Framework user. Please visit us sometime soon at http://framework.zend.com.