2016-06-28 | By: Matthew Weier O'Phinney After 17 months of effort, hundreds of releases, tens of thousands of commits by hundreds of contributors, and millions of installs, we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 3. What is Zend Framework 3? For Zend Framework 2 MVC users, the differences are subtle: Increased performance; we've measured up to 4X faster applications