Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework announced Zend Framework Beta Release 0.9.0. From announcement:

This is the first Beta Release of Zend Framework. This marks a new milestone for the Framework project, because with the status of Beta, we are establishing the feature set for Zend Framework 1.0, and we are adopting a commitment to backward-compatibility and interface stability

You can download it from http://framework.zend.com/. Read full announcement here.