I found a decent forum the developers hang out at:

http://www.nabble.com/Zend-Framework-f15440.html

The forum script itself kinda reminds me of Matt Wright's work, but the info is good

holy moley. you are right Allen. you just killed my weekend now, because i started reading one article and it branched out into 2 other places i need to read.

and another .js API that looks sweet..

goodbye Saturday and Sunday!!

Zend released version 1.5 recently, lots of new stuff and improvements on the older stuff:

• Support for OpenID and Microsoft's InfoCard - two emerging technologies behind "Identity 2.0," a movement to simplify and fortify identity management online
• Forms - New support for forms, including Ajax usage patterns that makes building and using web-based forms much easier
• Layout and view - New layout support and view enhancements for consistent look and feel throughout PHP applications
• LDAP authentication - Now with enterprise-ready authentication using LDAP technology
• Lucene search engine - New advanced queries using wildcards, date ranges, fuzzy searches as well as Lucene index format version 2.1
• Extended Ajax support - Server-side support for Ajax with action helpers to automate Ajax detection and responses makes programming using JavaScript & PHP much easier
• UTF-8 character sets in Adobe PDF creation - PDF support enhanced to enable non-Latin character sets such as Kanji, Cyrillic, etc.
• Google GData web services - Significant enhancements to Google Data services makes it easier to build web applications that leverage the Google application network. New support for upload and write capabilities to Google YouTube

http://framework.zend.com