Zend is pleased to announce the BETA release of Zend Studio 9.0.0!
You can download this release from: 
http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/studio-9-beta

This release contains improvements, new features, bug fixes and optimizations.
Using a new set of features developers can now easily connect to version 
control repositories such as git, GitHub, Subversion and then launch Web
applications locally or on remote Zend Server targets.
Zend Studio 9.0 is faster, leaner, and lets you tune your IDE to your needs 
thanks to new smart product configuration.

In more details:
 * Zend Studio 9 makes it easier than ever to bootstrap a project and create 
   high-quality code:
   - Use Git and GitHub directly from within Zend Studio (“join the distributed 
     version control revolution!”)
   - Benefit from the many JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 editor improvements in 
     Eclipse 3.7.1
   - Debug smarter  and more efficiently 
 * With Zend Studio 9, you can develop and deploy in the Cloud: 
   - Develop using the Zend Developer Cloud – an instantly available, consistent 
     PHP environment that delivers superior debugging, increased productivity and 
     collaboration in the Cloud
   - Special feature for Studio purchasers during Zend Studio 9 beta – get 
   priority access to Zend Developer Cloud!  [note – what this means internally 
   is that once a week during this period, Kent/Boaz will send invitations to 
   everyone who purchased Studio that week]
   - Create and test deployment packages for reliable and consistent deployment 
     to a number of Zend Application Fabric-enabled Clouds (RightScale, Amazon 
     CloudFormation, IBM SmartCloud) as well as to on-premise Zend Server
   - Use the built-in Amazon Web Services toolkit for increased productivity 
     in developing Web applications that leverage services like Amazon EC2 and 
     S3
 * Zend Studio 9 is faster, leaner, and lets you tune your IDE to your needs 
   thanks to new smart product configuration:
   - 67% faster default startup
   - 40% smaller default disk footprint
   - Lower memory footprint

This version is backward compatible with all 8.x versions.

Software Updates:
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 * Zend Framework 1.11
 * PHPUnit 3.5

System Requirements:
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 *  Supported Operating Systems:
    - Windows x86, x86-64 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Windows7 
    - Linux x86
    - Linux x86-64 
    - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion
 *  800MHz processor (1.5GHz processor recommended)
 *  1024B RAMs
 *  700MB of hard disk space

Documentation:
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 * Product documentation is available through the web GUI of the product, and 
   on-line at http://www.zend.com/studio/resources

Known Issues:
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 * Detecting a Zend Server localhost target on Windows 7 doesn't work when 
   no API key is configured. To workaround this issue, create an API manually
   through the Zend Server interface
 * Generating PHPDocumentor reports currently doesn't work 
 * After configuring a Passive mode for FTP connections, connection fails to load.
 * Several issues were reported when launching Zend Studio on CentOS 5 64 bit.
   Updating to last version should help.
 * Creating project from GitHub, no validation message if user wants to create 
   a project using the name of already existing one.
 * Open Web Browser button does not work for external browser (IE and Chrome)  
 * Several issues reported about the new license mechanism, Wrong appearance 
   in Days Remaining field. If your license has expired, the option "Continue 
   to use as a trial" should be disabled.
 * After adding ExtJS library, there are several errors with the editor content   
   assist.
 * Class re-factoring is problematic for reference occurring in the same file
      
Support and Feedback:
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 * Support for Zend Studio 9.0.0 and evaluation support is provided via 
   the Zend forums at http://forums.zend.com

Thank you for using Zend Studio
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