Dear Zope Community,
on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors
I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.5 beta 1.
Zope 2.7.5 beta 1 can be downloaded from
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.5b1
The release notes can be found at
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.5b1/CHANGES.txt
For informations on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7: see doc/INSTALL.txt
Andreas Jung
Debugging a running or deadlocked Zope
http://www.zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/DeadlockDebugger
This product adds a hook so that a deadlocked Zope process can be
debugged, by dumping a traceback of all running python processes. The
dump is sent to the event log (at the DEBUG level) and returned to the
browser (even though the Zope is deadlocked and doesn't answer any other
requests!).
DeadlockDebugger can of course also be used to debug Zope in
non-deadlock situations, when a Zope process is taking a long time and
you wish to know what code is being executed.
DeadlockDebugger requires the third party 'threadframe' python module,
http://www.majid.info/mylos/stories/2004/06/10/threadframe.html
Florent
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Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France) CTO, Director of R&D
+33 1 40 33 71 59 http://nuxeo.com fg(a)nuxeo.com
Hi All,
My my how time flies ;-) It's the end of February and that means another
bug day. I'll probably be a little busy, but I'll be trying to squash at
least a few bugs...
What?
Zope Bug Day working from http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope
When?
Friday 26th February - from when you wake up until when the day ends!
Where?
#zope-dev on irc.zope.org
Come along and help if you've got a chance!
Read this if you want to know how:
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/BugDays
cheers,
Chris
--
Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting
- http://www.simplistix.co.uk
21 February 2005 - Infrae has released Silva 1.2 today. This release
contains three major new features: expanded version management for XML
documents, subscription functionality for all versioned content, and an
internationalized Silva user interface, including Dutch and German
translations. Infrae is actively seeking volunteers to translate Silva
into other languages.
Version management
------------------
Silva 1.2 exposes additional version management capability to the user
interface. It leverages Silva's powerful multi-version system, where
content can be online while a new version is simultaneously prepared.
The version management feature allows:
* reviewing older versions of content objects
* comparing different versions side-by-side
* reverting to older versions of content
* removing of selected old versions
Subscriptions
-------------
Silva 1.2 adds the subscriptions feature, which allows end-users to
subscribe to public web pages. As soon as a new version of a page gets
(re)published, the subscribed user receives an email
notification. It's even possible to subscribe to changes on a content
hierarchy - but only if this has been allowed using the subscription
management UI, which allows for fine-grained subscribability for
content. On the more technical side it is noteworthy that the
subscription feature has been designed to be scalable over many
subscribers.
Internationalization
--------------------
Silva 1.2 has now been fully internationalized. This means that the
Silva user interface can now be presented a wide range of
languages. Besides the original UI in English, Silva 1.2 will also
ship with a German and a Dutch translation. We're eager to have
contributors help with the translation effort to other languages!
If you're interested in providing translations to other languages, or
if you wish to test an existing translation, please contact the Silva
developers at:
http://lists.infrae.com/mailman/listinfo/silva-dev
and we will help you get started.
Upgrading
---------
The upgrade from Silva 1.1 to 1.2 involves a content upgrade, though a
small one. Ghosts need to be reindexed in the catalog, and Indexer
objects need to be refreshed. This can be performanced by a single
content upgrade. For more information see the UPGRADE.txt that will
ship with the release.
What is Silva?
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Silva is an enterprise-class CMS for managing content for the web,
print, and other media. Content is stored in clean and future-proof
XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include a
multi-version workflow system, XSLT rendering support, integral
WYSIWYG editor (Kupu), content reuse in multiple publications,
sophisticated access management, extensive import/export facilities,
fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation.
Silva is entirely open source.
Extensions
----------
Also available for download is a collection of Silva 'add-on' Products
with optional but useful extensions of Silva functionality.
More information
----------------
* http://www.infrae.com/products/silva
* http://www.infrae.com
Downloads
---------
* http://www.infrae.com/download/Silva
Press Contact
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Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com
I have a very lucrative position based in London for a developer with at
least 18 months commercial python and zope and around about 6 months CMF
based development. Candidates should also have at least 1 years worth
of HTML JavaScript, and CSS. Experience on UNIX, preferably Ret Hat and
Solaris is beneficial and an understanding of web infrastructure
including web protocols and designing web applications for scalability
and resilience. This is a very lucrative contract in a top financial
institution for at least 6 months contracting or could even a highly
paid permanent role. If you are interested or know of any suitable
candidates that are please do not hesitate to contact me on 0207 739
5500 (ask for Lloyd) or drop me a quick e-mail. This position is
available immediately but my client will wait for candidates to work
their current notice period.
Lloyd Chandler
Aston Carter Limited |
*+44 (0)20 7739 5500 | *+44 (0)20 7739 0020
*: www.astoncarter.co.uk <blocked::http://www.astoncarter.co.uk>
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The Vrijschrift Foundation is an international point of resistance
against software patents, represents Project Gutenberg in the EU, FSF
for the Netherlands, etc. (we just do a lot of good things :-) ).
Our server runs Zope/Plone to host http://plone.ffii.org,
http://plone.vrijschrift.org and more. Unfortunately we face Zope
crashes and crack attempts on a regular base for example and despite
great skills of our administrators they turn out not to be Zopuru's.
Some help is desperate needed to keep resources focused on what we stand
for.
Are you willing to put some small effort in it to keep us up and running?
If you want to help , or if you know somebody who wants to do so, you
are very welcome to join us on low volume list level, or, if you just
want to help in panic situations, just give us your e-mail address.
Unfortunately I am not following this list so please cc me at wiebe at
vrijschrift dot org and or one of the cc-ed addresses.
Thank you!!
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to let you all know that the first book covering Zope 3 hit the
shelves yesterday. It is called the "Zope 3 Developer's Handbook" and was
published by Sams' Developer's Library.
Link to Sams Web-Site:
http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672326175
Link to amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0672326175
There is also an online version at: http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3Book
However, I did not yet have the time to transfer the editions made by Sams
back to the online version. This will happen in the next months though.
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
Silva Security Alert 2005-02-02
===============================
2 february 2005 -- Infrae has discovered a severe security bug in
Silva, which potentially allows untrusted users to alter live images and
files (all listed versions), as well as alter the draft state of Silva
Documents (in versions 0.9.3 and above). If your organisation is running
Silva we strongly recommend an upgrade as soon as possible.
The problem has been found in all Silva versions currently in use. We've
fixed it in our version control repository for the following major versions:
Silva 1.2 (under development)
Silva 1.1
Silva 1.0
Silva 0.9.3
Silva 0.9.2
Silva 0.9.1
The recommended way to fix this problem is to upgrade to a new bugfix
releases for the major version of Silva that you are running. We have
made bugfix releases of the affected Zope products available.
For versions of Silva 0.9.1 and 0.9.2, only an upgrade of the Silva
product itself is necessary. For versions of Silva 0.9.3 and up, an
upgrade of both the Silva and SilvaDocument products is needed. Only
these products need upgrading.
If you have any questions or special requirements concerning your
upgrade, please contact Infrae.
We apologise in advance for the inconvience.
Bugfix versions of Silva and SilvaDocument can be downloaded in the
Silva and SilvaDocument download areas on www.infrae.com:
http://www.infrae.com/download/Silvahttp://www.infrae.com/download/SilvaDocument
Bugfixed versions are:
0.9.1
-----
Silva-0.9.1.13.tgz
0.9.2
-----
Silva-0.9.2.8.tgz
0.9.3
-----
Silva-0.9.3.7.tgz
SilvaDocument-0.9.3.8.tgz
1.0
---
Silva-1.0.3.tgz
SilvaDocument-1.0.3.tgz
1.1
---
Silva-1.1.2.tgz
SilvaDocument-1.1.2.tgz
The beta version of Silva 1.2, already released, also contains the fixes.
Quick installation instructions
-------------------------------
To install this bugfix release, first remove the old Silva Product,
unpack the .tgz file for your current Silva version in the Zope Products
directory and restart Zope. If you're running 0.9.3, 1.0 or 1.1, you
should also replace the SilvaDocument product with the updated version.
Hello all. This month I was inspired by MoinMoin release notes a
little.
What is it
Zwiki is a Zope product for building wikis - a special kind of website
that's easy for anyone to edit.
What's changed
New issuebrowser/IssueBrowser form, preliminary built-in RSS support,
bugfixes. See full release notes at the end of this message.
News Development has been quiet, and picking up again in late January.
Code contributions this month included an internationalisation fix from
huron. Discussion has been steady. Bug closing rate has been low.
Cleanup of code, docs, and issue categories is ongoing. I posted my idea
of priorities for this year at http://zwiki.org/ZwikiRoadmap2005 .
We are in the process of reviewing and upgrading our copyright and
commit policies. Some new STX contributions are on hold because of this.
If you'd like to help, review http://zwiki.org/LegalDepartment and give
your input on the zwiki list, and update your information at
http://zwiki.org/ZwikiContributors .
zwiki.org passed 2000 pages and the tracker passed 1000 issues at the
end of last year.
The server hosting zwiki.org and zopewiki.org has been upgraded to zope
2.7.3 and had its thread count reduced to 2. It now generally runs
stably within our 256M limit (thanks, zope hackers) and remains up
except when restarted to install new code. It performs more slowly
during google crawls. See also: http://zwiki.org/WikiStats .
zopewiki.org has 440 pages and has is receiving a steady, low rate of
edits and votes. (However many of these are anonymous votes which will
not be remembered.). http://zopewiki.org/EpozBook is a recent addition.
See http://zopewiki.org/WikiStats .
The active wiki at http://ubuntulinux.org/wiki (756 pages) seems to be
doing its job. It's the first zwiki installation which allows switching
between the standard and plone zwiki skins (alt -, alt +). It's also the
zwiki with most multilingual content.
http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/ is another interesting
wiki, with an issue tracker, full two-way mailing list integration, and
LatexWiki installed. LatexWiki is Bob McElrath's product adding latex
support to Zwiki.
If all goes well, I'll be at pycon in march. :)
That's all I can think of right now. I welcome your feedback and
submissions for next month.
About the Zwiki project
Zwiki was started in 1999 by Simon Michael and now receives changes from
many contributors. It is released under the GNU GPL. A new version is
released on the first of the month.
Links
http://zwiki.org - home and docs
http://zwiki.org/ReleaseNotes - all release notes
http://zwiki.org/KnownIssues - bugs you're likely to run into
http://zwiki.org/IssueBrowser - all open bugs
http://zwiki.org/IssueTracker - search and report new ones here
http://zwiki.org/AboutZwikiDiscussion - the zwiki list, UserDiscussion
page, etc.
irc://irc.freenode.net/#zwiki - join us on IRC for quick help
http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFunding - how to donate or sponsor a feature
________________________________________________________________________
Zwiki 0.38.0 2005/02/01
Summary
New issuebrowser/IssueBrowser form, preliminary built-in RSS support,
bugfixes.
Upgrade notes
There have been changes to the zwiki catalog fields. After upgrading, if
your wikis use a catalog or are in a CMF/plone site, visit
FRONTPAGE/setupCatalog, or if issue tracking is enabled, visit
FRONTPAGE/setupTracker, to ensure your catalog is configured for best
large-wiki performance.
index_object's arguments have changed and the reindex_object and
updateCatalog methods are deprecated.
As noted below, free form links no longer try so hard to find old-style
IssueNo issue pages, so if you have broken links of this kind, upgrade
your issue page names (/upgradeAll).
Changes
Configuring
* fix dependency on /setupTracker for good large-wiki
performance; /setupCatalog is now sufficient (#993)
* be compatible with plone's default_page lines property (#914)
Browsing
* preliminary built-in RSS support -
FRONTPAGE/pages_rss, /changes_rss
* freeform links no longer look for both old and new-style issues;
a slight (20%) speedup for rendering freeform links
Issue tracking
* fix sorting issues by number (#934)
* issuebrowser/IssueBrowser form for reviewing open issues
* make closed issues greener.. may be different on your screen,
feedback welcome
* hide zeros to make filter issues matrix clearer
* try to improve spacing glitch with dtml-translate on filter
issues
Fit tests
* just log a fit import warning instead of displaying on the page
General - i18n
* i18n (global and french) for issue tracker in plone - i18n in
plone skin require some i18n elements (for instance the so
called contentaction items) to be in zwiki-plone-* as well
(huron)
General
* catalog awareness cleanups
* make setskin links harmless for anonymous users and bots,
instead of logging errors (#1010)