Laminas provides to users a support of the model–view–controller (MVC) in combination with Front Controller solution.

The router and dispatcher functions to decide which controller to run based on data from URL, and controller functions in combination with the model and view to develop and create the final web page.

[5] On 17 April 2019 it was announced[7] that the framework is transitioning into an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation to be known as Laminas.

The licensing and contribution policies were established to prevent intellectual property issues for commercial ZF users, according to Zend's Andi Gutmans.

Framework components are versioned independently and released as separate Composer packages.

Components transitioned from Zend Framework continued with existing versions and had all past releases migrated from their counterparts.

Laminas includes following components:[13] Officially supported install method is via Composer package manager.

For instance, if you need MVC package, you can install with the following command:Full list of components is available in Laminas Framework documentation.

[14] Technology partners include IBM,[15] Google,[16] Microsoft,[17] Adobe Systems,[18] and StrikeIron.

Other developers may want to use a different PHP stack and another IDE such as Eclipse PDT which works well together with Zend Server.

[25] On September 22, 2009, Zend Technologies announced[26] that it would be working with technology partners including Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix, and GoGrid along with the Zend Framework community to develop a common API to cloud application services called the Simple Cloud API.

[29] Changes made in this release were the removal of require_once statements, migration to PHP 5.3 namespaces, a refactored test suite, a rewritten Zend\Session, and the addition of the new Zend\Stdlib.