I received notification today that the Zend Framework was bumped to V1.5.1, with lots of fixes to the framework itself.

We (I mean Neil) used Zend Framework for the Weylandts CMS project (A great project which finally launched last week after several delays) when I worked at OgilvyInteractive (technically, I still work there, but due to health reasons, my last official working day was last Wednesday), and I’m using the framework in a freelance project I’m doing as well. I find at times, it’s great in what it achieves and how easy it is to do certain things, but other times, like the fantastic addition of the Zend_Form classes, where things are just too much of an effort to have to jump through the hoops required. I’m not fond of reinventing the wheel, and that’s what makes the Zend Framework so nice, you only use the bits and bobs you need, and you’re not tied into a huge array of restrictions like other frameworks.