eZ Components 2008.1
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*Expected release date:* Beginning of June 2008

New components
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We are planning the following new components:

- *Document* - conversions between different data formats, in this
  first release we will focus only on what the new OE editor and eZ Publish 4
  require.
- *ExtendedReflection* - Basic layer for static analysis for source code, to
  build a web service generation framework on. (External contribution)
- *Feed* - RSS/ATOM Feed writing and reading.
- *Search* - Indexing and querying front-end to Solr and other search engines.

Enhancing existing components
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Additionally, the existing components will be improved further. 
Major parts here are the following:

Cache
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- Hierarchical cache storage.

PersistentObject
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- Data-type support.

Template
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- Translation Tie-in and Character set support.


For the full list: http://issues.ez.no/RoadMap.php?Id=729&ProjectId=1 and
http://issues.ez.no/FilterApply.php?Filter=72 .
From this release, only PHP 5.2 and higher will be supported.

Release Dates
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Tentative release dates are:

*2008.1 Alpha 1:* - May 5th, 2008

*2008.1 Beta 1:* - May 27th, 2008