Question

I tried searching but cannot find an expected date of Zend Framework 2 official release.

Is it safe to use it for a project which will go live in August?

Answer 1

As said above, it depends on how you define “safe”, and your kind of project.

If your project is going to be deployed into production, however, it doesn’t look too safe to me. According to last beta release note:

The beta release cycle is following the “gmail” style of betas,
whereby new features will be added in each new release, and BC
(backward compatibility) will not be guaranteed

So, if you still want to have a try, you have at least some options:

• To wait until the Release Candidate process starts, (according to the RN, at the end of June).
• To be prepared to rewrite part of your application if the APIs change on next beta.
• To stick to a beta version and not upgrade it (not the best idea, in my opinion).

Hope that helps,