July 2004 - Zope-Announce

[Ann] CCSQLMethods 0.3: Cache Controlled SQL Methods
by Dieter Maurer 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

"CCSQLMethods" are Z SQL Methods with explicit cache control. They allow to flush the complete cache or invalidate individual entries. Complete cache flushing works also across ZEO clients. Version 0.3 fixes a bug with cache flushing across ZEO clients. More information and download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/CCSQLMethods.html> -- Dieter

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ZServerSSL Windows installer for Plone 2.0
by Ng Pheng Siong 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Hi, I am pleased to announce that ZServerSSL Windows installer for Plone 2.0 is now available: http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/zope/zssl ZServerSSL adds direct SSL and TLS capability to Zope. Cheers. -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps(a)netmemetic.com> http://firewall.rulemaker.net -+- Cisco PIX & Netscreen Config Version Control http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps -+- M2Crypto, ZServerSSL for Zope, Blog

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[ANN] Zope 2.7.2 released
by Andreas Jung 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.2 You can download it the sources from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.2/ Installers for Microsoft Windows will be available shortly! THIS RELEASE IS ALSO A SECURITY UPDATE AND CONTAINS A FIX FOR A SECURITY PROBLEM IN PAGE TEMPLATES. YOU ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO UPGRADE TO ZOPE 2.7.2 OR INSTALL THE HOTFIX #2004-07-14. 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/2.7.2/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.2/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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Silva 1.0 final released!
by Martijn Faassen 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Silva 1.0: The Structured Content Management System =================================================== July 20, 2004 - after two and a half years of development, the Silva team is happy to announce the release of Silva 1.0. Silva is an open source content management system with a focus on structured content and its reuse. It is based on the open source web application platform Zope, and the programming language Python. New in Silva 1.0 are: * Deeply integrated support for Kupu, the WYSIWYG through the web editor with support for both Mozilla and Internet Explorer. * Silva 1.0 ships with full documentation that is a Silva publication itself. When you install a new Silva root you get the option to install the documentation as well. * Other new features include image thumbnail support and image cropping support. "At ETH we operate a mass virtual hosting Silva instance hosting a few hundred sites," says Reinhard Hess, of the `central IT services`_ at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (`ETH Zurich`_). "In addition to that there are a number of sites being run by independent departemental IT units across the university." ETH Zurich has been deploying Silva since 2002 - and they are also developing on the platform. "Silva is well capable to compete successfully with other web CMS products in the enterprise range - either open source or closed source. Silva was a good choice for us. Silva gives us the best cost/performance ratio even in the long term and maximum operational flexibility." The `University of Luton`_ in the UK is going online with a new Silva-backed version of their site later this week. "Silva is a very flexible tool for generating and maintaining web content," says Steve Kendall, who is managing the project. "Previously all web content had to be looked after by a small team of central staff with specialised skills, but now we have the mechanisms in place to return full ownership of the content to the faculties and departments." .. _`ETH Zurich`: http://www.ethz.ch/ .. _`central IT services`: http://www.id.ethz.ch/ .. _`University of Luton`: http://www.luton.ac.uk/ Downloads --------- You can download Silva 1.0 final here: http://www.zope.org/Members/infrae/Silva The -all.tgz ships with everything needed, including Kupu. A list of changes can be found here: http://www.zope.org/Members/infrae/Silva/HISTORY.txt About Silva ----------- Features of Silva include: * Through-the-web user interface with easy access to all features, including access keys. * Extensive documentation aimed to authors and editors, as well as for site managers, designers and system administrators. * Through-the-web structured authoring of documents using a WYSIWIG editor (kupu) or a forms-based editor. Content can be published to the web and exported as XML. Content can be reused in multiple areas of a publication using ghost objects. * Workflow and versioning support allows an author to work on a new version of a document while another version is already published online. * Separation of responsibilities between author, editor, and chief editor roles. Optional full integration with very large user sources using LDAP. Extensive group management abilities (with or without LDAP). * Resizing support for images, and extensive support to position images in document text. Images and files can be imported singly or in bulk. * Flexible customizable presentation using Zope Page Templates. Different sub sites can have different publications and designs. Virtual hosting support for sub sites. Silva extensions include: * SilvaNews - create and manage news and agenda items in Silva. RSS syndication and aggregation support. * DocMa - external server which integrates seamlessly into Silva and allows Silva publications to be exported to MS Word documents, and MS Word documents to be imported into Silva. * SilvaExternalSources - include data from external sources into documents, including CSV files, results from relational database queries or any Python script. More information about Silva can also be found here: http://www.infrae.com/products/silva More information about Infrae, the company that created Silva: http://www.infrae.com Press Contacts -------------- Martijn Faassen, Infrae, faassen at infrae.com

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CPS 3.1.3 (devel) released
by Stefane Fermigier 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

CPS 3.1.3 has been released and has went through the painful moderation process of zope.org: http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/CPS-3.1.3 No release notes, sorry (check the big changelog if you need, and the HISTORY files in every products), except that there are 3 new products: - CPSIO: XML-based input/output of CPS content and configuration - CPSNavigation: a kind of "objects explorer" that helps manage documents, users and vocabularies - CPSUserFolder: a user folder that uses CPSDirectory as its backend, instead of the other way around (see the EuroPython slides if you're interested in knowing more: http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/news/ep2004-slides) S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps Gestion de contenu web / portail collaboratif / groupware / open source!

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TAL Hotfix 2004-07-14 for Zope 2.7.0, 2.7.1
by Fred Drake 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

This hotfix product fixes a security bug in Page Templates. This fix ensures that values substituted in named slots in translated elements are properly encoded. If encoding is not desired and the source of the replacement text is trusted, the "structure" modifier can be used with the tal:content or tal:replace attribute to explicitly disable encoding. Affected Versions This fix applies to Zope 2.7.0 and 2.7.1. Zope versions 2.7.2 and newer already contain this fix, and do not require this hotfix. This fix also obsoletes 'Hotfix_20040713', so that should be uninstalled when this hotfix is installed. See the README.txt file provided with 'Hotfix_20040713' for instructions on removing that hotfix. Getting the Hotfix You can download the hotfix at: http://zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2004-07-14/Zope%202.7.0%20-%202.7.1/ The product contains a README.txt file with installation instructions. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at zope.com> Zope Corporation

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[ANN] Zope 2.7.2 RC1 released
by Andreas Jung 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.2 RC1. You can download it the sources from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.2RC1/ Installers for Microsoft Windows will be available shortly! THIS RELEASE IS ALSO A SECURITY UPDATE AND CONTAINS A FIX FOR A SECURITY PROBLEM IN PAGE TEMPLATES. YOU ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO UPGRADE TO ZOPE 2.7.2 OR INSTALL THE HOTFIX #2004-07-13 WHICH WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY. 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/2.7.2RC1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.2RC1/HISTORY.txt Zope 2.7.2 final will be released with the next seven to ten days. For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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ZServerSSL Windows installer for Zope 2.7.1
by Ng Pheng Siong 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Hi, I'm pleased to announce that ZServerSSL Windows installer for Zope 2.7.1 is now available: http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/zope/zssl Cheers. -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps(a)netmemetic.com> http://firewall.rulemaker.net -+- Cisco PIX & Netscreen Config Version Control http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps -+- M2Crypto, ZServerSSL for Zope, Blog

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External Editor 0.8
by Casey Duncan 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

It is my esteemed honor to announce the lastest and greatest version of external editor, striving to make editing through-the-web more tolerable, if not pleasurable. Version 0.8 brings several new features as well as some nice bug fixes. Many of the enhancements were contributed by users of EE, and I thank you! Changes for 0.8: - Add external editor icon to ZMI breadcrumbs for editable objects. - Compiled windows helper app binary using Python 2.3.4, Pythonwin build 163 and py2exe 0.5. - Add Dreamweaver plugin contributed by Manuel Aristarann. Thanks also to Anton Stonor. - Add ZMI support for Zope 2.7's ordered folder objects. - Fix bug detecting basic auth info from older versions of CookieCrumber. Thanks to David D. Smith and Federico Sevilla III. - Workaround IE browser error when running over SSL. Thanks to Marc-Aurele Darche. - Add ".zem" file extension support for MacOS X (especially Mac IE), to ease helper app integration where MIME support is lacking. Thanks to Zac Bir. - Added "long_file_name" and "file_name_separator" config options. - Fixed bug which happened under Win32 when editing an Excel file using the Excel plugin where the symptom was a "Call was rejected by callee" COM error. Thanks to Chris McDonough. Download: http://zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor What is External Editor? EE is a Zope product and client-side browser helper application which allows you to edit Zope objects (content, scripts, templates, even images) with the client-side applications of your choice. Once configured, you can click on the external edit icon for an object in your browser and the application to edit that object will be launched automatically. When you save the changes, EE will automagically upload the data back to Zope in the background. EE also supports locking to prevent accidental overwriting resulting from concurrent editing. EE integrates with the ZMI and is easy to incorporate into your own applications. Several Zope applications already support EE, including Plone. Enjoy. -Casey

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TAL Hotfix 2004-07-13 for Zope 2.7.0, 2.7.1
by Fred Drake 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

This hotfix product fixes a security bug in Page Templates. This fix ensures that values substituted in named slots in translated elements are properly encoded. If encoding is not desired and the source of the replacement text is trusted, the "structure" modifier can be used with the tal:content or tal:replace attribute to explicitly disable encoding. Affected Versions This fix applies to Zope 2.7.0 and 2.7.1. Zope versions 2.7.2 and newer already contain this fix, and do not require this hotfix. Getting the Hotfix You can download the hotfix at: http://zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2004-07-13/Zope%202.7.0%20-%202.7.1/ The product contains a README.txt file with installation instructions. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at zope.com> Zope Corporation

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