July 2005 - Zope-Announce

CMF 1.5.2 Released
by Jens Vagelpohl 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

Zope Corporation is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.2 of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release marks the latest stable release in the CMF 1.5 series and should be suitable for production use. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Where do I get it? Download it from http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2 Points of interest include: - "Windows ZIP file", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2/CMF-1.5.2.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2/CMF-1.5.2.tar.gz - "Release notes", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2/README.txt - "Change history", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2/INSTALL.txt Where do I go to learn more? The "CMF mailing list":mailto:zope-cmf@zope.org has many participants who are active in supporting the CMF. ...to report bugs? The "CMF Collector":http://zope.org/Collectors/CMF is ths place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!) --------------- Jens Vagelpohl jens(a)zetwork.com Zetwork GmbH http://www.zetwork.com/

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Five 1.1b released!
by Philipp von Weitershausen 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Five 1.1b released! =================== The Five team is happy to release Five 1.1b, a beta release for the upcoming version 1.1 of Five. Compared to the 1.0 release, Five 1.1 brings a few more Zope 3 features to the Zope 2 world, such as * Zope 3-style i18n (including fallback to existing Zope 2 i18n machinery), * Zope 3 to Zope 2 interface bridging (in addition to the already supported Zope 2 to Zope 3 interface bridging), * a couple more standard ZCML directives. Five has also been changed internally -- the code has been restructured and the testing framework has been simplified to be easier to maintain. For more information please consult the _CHANGES document. .. _CHANGES: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/CHANGES.html Five 1.1b can be downloaded here: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.1b.tgz Unless big show stoppers are encountered, Five 1.1 final will be released during the coming weeks. If you're already using Five, we would like to ask you to test this beta release and give us feedback. If you're not using Five already, take this release as an opportunity to dive into the Zope 3 world! Five 1.1 will most likely not be part of any Zope 2.x release. It will also most likely be the last release to support Zope 2.7 and Zope X3.0. Upcoming versions of Five will be geared towards Zope 3.1 and new-style ExtensionClasses as they appear in Zope 2.8 and higher. About Five ---------- Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today. It allows you to use the following parts of the Zope 3 component architecture within Zope 2: * Zope 3 interfaces * adapters * pages (views), including skins, layers and resources * edit and add forms, based on schemas * i18n * ZCML We've tried to keep the Five experience as close to Zope 3 as possible, so this means that what you learn while using Five should also be applicable to Zope 3. More information about Five can be found on our website, here: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/ We hope you'll join our mailing list and let hear from yourself! About the Zope 3 Base --------------------- Five is part of the *Zope 3 Base* project, which aims to offer an approachable area for developers of Zope 3 related software. More about the Zope 3 base and its projects can be found here: http://codespeak.net/z3/

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Get a free signed copy of PloneLive!
by Michel Pelletier 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hi folks, I sincerely apologize for sending out the wrong link below, that link does lead to the form, but where I really wanted to send you was to the landing page that has some of the qualifying rules for getting the free signed book, including the rule that you must be inside the US, which is a budget constraint on our part since it costs us 4-5 times as much to ship a book out of the US. Here is the link to the landing page: http://www.cignex.com/ploneliveoffer/index_html?cref=zope-announce To cover this big goof and to make an offer that works for everyone, I'm extending a 25% discount code for the online subscription to folks from outside the USA that fill out the form and qualify. This brings the cost of the online subscription to about $22.50 USD (under 20 Euro). I apologize again for the error and hope that the discount offer allows some folks outside the US to get their hands on a copy of the book. Also, for those coming to the Vienna Plone conference, Munwar and I will be giving out signed books, so those lucky enough to go and get there before we run out of books can still get their hands on a signed print edition. Thanks! -Michel > So you dig Plone? Cool. Are you hawking it within your company? Better. > You have some ideas to share? Awesome! > > The team at CIGNEX, the open source evangelist company, has authored a > 400-page book, "Plone Live," that is full of useful stuff -- codes, > ideas, tools, and so on -- for you, the Plone developer. Published by > Sourcebeat, this book is now available in print. > > We are giving away 500 FREE copies, SIGNED by both the authors, to > active Plone believers. Sure, there is a catch. We want you to tell us > your take on Plone -- projects you are working on, tools that you have > built, ideas you'd like to share. > > Just fill out the form at this URL: > > http://www.cignex.com/ploneliveoffer/form.html?cref=zope-announce > > describing your Plone commitment, and if you qualify (you represent a > not for profit or for profit organization and you completely fill out > the questionaire) we'll send your copy right away! > > -Michel

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[ANN] PluggableAuthService 1.1b2
by Zachery Bir 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I'm pleased to announce another beta release of PluggableAuthService. PluggableAuthService is a highly extensible replacement user folder for Zope 2. It can manage users, groups, roles, and properties. Summary PluggableAuthService is a highly extensible replacement user folder for Zope 2. It can manage arbitrary user, group, role, and property definitions with ease, and works best in very heterogeneous environments (users stored in MySQL, groups in LDAP, properties from the filesystem, &c). For authentication, it supports HTTP Basic Auth, Cookie Auth, Domain Auth, and others, and can be extended to support just about any other mechanism. Changes in this version - Fixed a template bug in the plugin activation form. You can download the source in tarball or zip format from: <http://www.zope.org/Members/urbanape/PluggableAuthService/ PluggableAuthService-1.1b2/PluggableAuthService-1.1b2.tar.gz> <http://www.zope.org/Members/urbanape/PluggableAuthService/ PluggableAuthService-1.1b2/PluggableAuthService-1.1b2.zip> Thanks, Zachery Bir

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Get a free signed copy of PloneLive!
by Michel Pelletier 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

So you dig Plone? Cool. Are you hawking it within your company? Better. You have some ideas to share? Awesome! The team at CIGNEX, the open source evangelist company, has authored a 400-page book, "Plone Live," that is full of useful stuff -- codes, ideas, tools, and so on -- for you, the Plone developer. Published by Sourcebeat, this book is now available in print. We are giving away 500 FREE copies, SIGNED by both the authors, to active Plone believers. Sure, there is a catch. We want you to tell us your take on Plone -- projects you are working on, tools that you have built, ideas you'd like to share. Just fill out the form at this URL: http://www.cignex.com/ploneliveoffer/form.html?cref=zope-announce describing your Plone commitment, and if you qualify (you represent a not for profit or for profit organization and you completely fill out the questionaire) we'll send your copy right away! -Michel

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Five 1.0.2 released!
by Philipp von Weitershausen 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Five 1.0.2 released! ==================== The Five team is happy to release Five 1.0.2, a bugfix release for Five 1.0. The changes since Five 1.0.1 (Zope 2.8.0) are: * Fixed some issues with bridged interfaces: Bases and Methods were not bridged correctly. extends() was never True. * zope.security.checkPermission now behaves exactly like Five.security.checkPermission (in fact, the former now calls the latter through the indirection of Zope 3 security policies). * Fixed a bug with resource directories. Resources within those were not rendering their absolute URL correctly. For more information please consult the _CHANGES document. .. _CHANGES: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/CHANGES.html Five 1.0.2 can be downloaded here: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.0.2.tgz This version of Five will also be port of the upcoming Zope 2.8.1. About Five ---------- Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today. It allows you to use the following parts of the Zope 3 component architecture within Zope 2: * Zope 3 interfaces * adapters * pages (views), including skins, layers and resources * edit and add forms, based on schemas * ZCML We've tried to keep the Five experience as close to Zope 3 as possible, so this means that what you learn while using Five should also be applicable to Zope 3. More information about Five can be found on our website, here: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/ We hope you'll join our mailing list and let hear from yourself! About the Zope 3 Base --------------------- Five is part of the *Zope 3 Base* project, which aims to offer an approachable area for developers of Zope 3 related software. More about the Zope 3 base and its projects can be found here: http://codespeak.net/z3/

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[ANN] Zope 2.7.7 released
by Andreas Jung 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.7 final. Zope 2.7.7 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.7 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.7/CHANGES.txt For information on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7.7: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager

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CMF 1.5.2beta released
by Jens Vagelpohl 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Zope Corporation is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.2beta2 of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release is intended for testing purposes only; we do not recommend deploying it to production servers. The final release of version 1.5.2 is expected mid-July 2005. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Where do I get it? Download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2beta2 Points of interest include: - "Windows ZIP file", http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2beta2/ CMF-1.5.2beta2.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2beta2/ CMF-1.5.2beta2.tar.gz . - "Release notes", http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2beta2/README.txt - "Change history", http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2beta2/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.2beta2/INSTALL.txt Where do I go to learn more? The CMF mailing list (zope-cmf(a)zope.org) has many participants who are active in supporting the CMF. ...to report bugs? The "CMF Collector":http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF is the place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!)

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ZODB 3.2.9 final released
by Tim Peters 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.9 (final). This corresponds to the ZODB (and ZEO) that will ship with Zope 2.7.7 (final) this coming weekend. In addition to minor bugfixes, there is one critical bugfix in 3.2.9, concerning data consistency after a subtransaction commit. This was discovered by code inspection, and a test case showing the problem was constructed from that analysis. It's a subtle problem, and it remains unclear how frequently or severely the bug may have manifested in applications (apart from that it had no effect on applications that don't use subtransactions). See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 Note that there are two Windows installers, one each for use with the Python 2.3 line (2.3.5 is recommended) and the Python 2.4 line (2.4.1 is recommended). Python 2.4 has not yet been certified for use with Zope, but Python 2.4.1 is supported for standalone ZODB/ZEO use. ZODB 3.2.9 can be used with Zopes in the 2.7 line, at or after Zope 2.7.3. Note that ZODB 3.2.9 does not support development on Zope 2.8 or Zope 3 (they moved on to the ZODB 3.4 and 3.5 lines, respectively).

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Second Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG Meeting
by Gary Poster 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Please join us July 13, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the second meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Zac Bir, Zope Corporation Senior Software Engineer, will present on PyObjC. Further meetings are planned for the second Wednesday of every month. Location will be at the Zope Corporation offices. More information http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/ fxbgzpug_announce_2 and below. Hope to see you there! Gary General ZPUG information ------------------------------------ When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python. Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com) Second meeting information -------------------------------------- When: July 13, 7:30. Speaker: Zac Bir, Zope Corporation Senior Software Engineer. Topic: Python applications on Mac OS X with PyObjC (http:// pyobjc.sourceforge.net/) Lightning talk: Benji York, Zope Corporation Senior Software Engineer will present a lightning talk on reading parallel ports in Python, using a Super Nintendo game controller as an example.

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