January 2001 - Zope-Announce

Zope.org wikis change-restricted for hour from 10:00am tomorrow, Jan 16 Jan 16
by Ken Manheimer 15 Jan '01

15 Jan '01

At 10:00 tomorrow (tuesday, Jan 16) we're going to be upgrading all the wikis on zope.org. All the wikis on the site will be restricted against changes for an hour, if everything goes smoothly, hopefully within 2 hours if there are unexpected problems. This upgrade will entail some substantial cleanup of the existing wikis, and other changes wiki owners need to understand. If you own or use wikis on zope.org, please see below for details. The changes come out of an update with a recent ZWiki release from simon michael, and then the enhancments resulting from the WikiForNow effort: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/WikiForNow The cleanup entails the following: - Deletion of all zero-length wiki pages (excluding FrontPage) - dispose of all the inadvertant pages, many due to web spiders - Assignment of sensible 'Owner' local-role for poorly defaulted settings - the old ZWiki and ZWikiWeb products set the role to the product owner. This has to be rectified since ability to regulate who can do what on new pages hinges on 'Owner' local role. (See RegulatingYourPages.) - Change many of the existing standard pages and methods (HelpPage, TextFormattingRules, SearchPage, etc) to reflect the realities in the new version (and to clarify and elaborate some pieces missing in the existing pages) There are many enhancments, some (like wiki operation regulations) depend on some of these cleanups. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/WikiForNow/WikiForNowDevelopments for a thorough list. I'll be making the changes available shortly, and forwarding them to simon michael for inclusion, at his discretion, in the ZWiki base code. Let me know if you have questions or concerns about the changes. Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 alpha 2 released
by Brian Lloyd 10 Jan '01

10 Jan '01

Hello all, Zope 2.3.0 alpha 2 is now available. You can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a2/ This release contains a number of new features, including: - SiteAccess is now a part of the Zope core - Shane Hathaway's CacheManager support and two cache manager implementations have been added - SQLMethods can now be edited using FTP and DAV aware tools - Catalogs have been improved to work much better in virtual host environments - Changes to the Web management interface designed to improve productivity, consistency and aesthetics For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a2/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a2/HISTORY.txt **Please note** that we do not build binary distributions for alpha releases - the alpha is available as a source release only. When we move into the beta period for 2.3, we will build and distribute binary releases. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.2.5 released
by Brian Lloyd 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Hello all, Zope 2.2.5 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.5/ This release contains a number of bug fixes, and includes all Hotfixes to date. It includes the fix for a memory leak that could occur when accessing SQL data through aliased names, a fix for a problem with contention between concurrent POST requests and a number of fixes to improve support for current WebDAV-aware clients such as Adobe GoLive. Over 60 Collector issues were closed out in preparing for the 2.2.5 release - thanks to those who submitted patches and helped to investigate bugs and verify fixes. Note that this release contains a change to the ExtensionClass binary - if you are running a source release you should rebuild the Zope binaries after upgrading or applying a "diff" update. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.5/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.5/HISTORY.txt Note that we have also posted "diff" updates as .tgz files that will let you easily upgrade an existing 2.2.x site. These updates are available for those currently using the 2.2.x source release or the 2.2.x binary releases. To apply a differential update to your site: - download the appropriate .tgz file from zope.org - shutdown your Zope process - copy the .tgz to your Zope directory and extract it - run w_pcgi or wo_pcgi *if you are not using a binary release* - restart your process Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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LinuxWorld Expo Exhibits pass from Digital Creations and Zope.org
by Gary Graham 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Come join Digital Creations, publishers of Zope, as our guest at the Linux World Conference & Expo exhibits! The show is January 31-February 2 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY. We will be debuting our new booth and sharing some exciting information about Zope and Digital Creations! If you are interested in attending the exhibits as our guest, please go to http://www.digicool.com/gary/lwexhibitspass.pdf to download your FREE exhibits pass. We look forward to meeting and talking with you in New York! If you have any questions about our participation, please email Melissa at melissa(a)digicool.com --Gary Gary Graham gary(a)digicool.com Director, Sales & Marketing Digital Creations Fredericksburg, Virginia "Dynamic Content in Internet Time" mobile: 540.840.3813 office direct: 540.372.9971 fax : 540.368-8016 ---------------------------------------------------- Creators of Zope: The Future of Content www.digicool.com www.zope.org

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ZWiki 0.8.1 released
by Simon Michael 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

ZWiki 0.8.1 2001-01-04 * added (experimental) page deletion * record IP address when username cookie is blank * make disabled javascript tags visible * added more unit tests ZWiki 0.8.0rc1 2000-12-14 * log last editor's IP address if there is no username cookie * wrapped a bunch of long lines * unit tests - added support for ZUnit and DocTest, and a few initial tests. http://zwiki.org/zwikidir/Makefile.sample contains some useful recipes for automated testing. ZWikiWebs.zexp: incorporated latest zwiki.org tweaks, namely: * removed a spurious menu from the add zwiki web form * added UserOptions to the default BookMarks and removed it from the page footer * bookmarks, quote, search box and hierarchy may all be turned on or off in UserOptions * the default home page is now a user option * user options & search box tab ordering fixed * always show the editform even for write-protected pages, with appropriate header/footer color * page history is now accessible * simplified RecentChanges Download: http://zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki Happy new year!

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ANN: CoreSessionTracking Release 0.4
by Chris McDonough 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

Hello, A new development release of the "Core Session Tracking" product (0.4) is available at http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/CoreSessionTracking This release makes substantial interface and feature changes including using an internal mounted storage to provide an "internal" session data container to each session data manager, autoexpiring session data objects, as well as vastly improved documentation. Please check it out! Thanks, Chris

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