Official announcements

This morning I released Zen 6.x-1.0-beta3. It has 27 improvements over the previous release. Full release notes are at: http://drupal.org/node/308618

The features of note are:

• #306856: Optimize code by adding conditional includes. I've reduced the code in template.php that is run on every page in half, which is a significant optimization.
• #308251: Add useful styling for status, warning, and error messages

Last week, I released Zen 6.x-1.0-beta1 after finally fixing some Drupal core bugs that prevented Zen sub-themes from working the way I felt they should work.

Also, Zen 6.x-1.0-beta2 was released this morning, but just fixes a critical bug for PHP 4 users.

Installation and sub-theme building instructions for Zen 6.x-1.x have also been put in the on-line docs.

Edit: Completed!

The image on Zen’s project homepage is a straight screenshot of the Zen core. That screenshot follows Drupal’s standard instructions for screenshots.

After a month and a half beta period with only 5 bugs discovered (and squashed), the O-fficial Zen 5.x-1.0 version has been released. Yay!

Thanks to everyone who helped with new features, bug fixes and documentation suggestions! The help is greatly appreciated!

For those of you who haven't looked at Zen since its 5.x-0.6 days, take it for a spin. No longer do you need to un-theme the Deliciously Blue style out of Zen before adding your own styles. It’s a true base theme.

I went through the issue queue last weekend and fixed nearly all of the bugs. To make it easier for everyone to kick the tires, I made a new release, Zen 0.7. So please stress test it.