August 2005 - Zope-Announce

ZODB 3.4.1 final released
by Tim Peters 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.4.1 final. This corresponds to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 2.8.1. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.1 is recommended). There have been many bugfixes in various areas since ZODB 3.4. In addition, optional ZEO client cache tracing was badly broken with the introduction of multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) in ZODB 3.3, and ZODB 3.4.1 is the first attempt to repair that. See the news file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4/NEWS.html Note that ZODB 3.4.1 does not support any version of Zope 2.6 or 2.7. Current Zope 2.8 development uses ZODB 3.4.1, and current Zope3 development uses a ZODB 3.5 prerelease. The ZODB 3.3 line is officially retired (3.3.1 final was the last release in the 3.3 line).

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CMF 1.5.3 released
by Jens Vagelpohl 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.3 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-1.5.3 Points of interest include: - "Windows ZIP file", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3/CMF-1.5.3.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3/CMF-1.5.3.tar.gz - "Release notes", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3/README.txt - "Change history", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3/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)dataflake.org

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Zwiki 0.44 released
by Simon Michael 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Zwiki is a free wiki engine for Zope, for creating both plain zope and CMF/Plone wikis. You can find out all about it at http://zwiki.org . Nothing earthshaking this month.. unless you count the retirement of the venerable full/simple/minimal ! Summary Drop full/simple/minimal and simplify the standard skin, more robust wiki contents. Upgrade notes Customized skins which use the old wikipage_macros template will stop working with this release, as discussed in the 0.42 upgrade notes. If this affects you, you'll need to make the changes described there now. Changes Page hierarchy * clarify updateWikiOutline and call it on every page view to avoid out of date contents and hopefully avoid the need to call it manually General - skins * drop full/simple/minimal modes from the standard skin. (cf http://zwiki.org/UserDiscussion#msg20050726150738-0700@zwiki.org) * drop backwards compatibility support for pre-0.42 wikipage_macros * drop the background colour in top and bottom bars * wikipage template cleanups * rewrote and redocumented setskin, fixed permission declaration not sure I accomplished much. * (commented out) if a "background.jpg" object is present, use it as the body background image (for the main page view only) Best, --Simon

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Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG August 10: .Net, functional testing
by Gary Poster 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Please join us August 10, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the third meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). This meeting has four features of note. - Brian Lloyd, the author of Python for .Net (http://www.zope.org/ Members/Brian/PythonNet/) and the Zope Corporation VP of Engineering, will discuss his .Net platform and give a brief .Net overview. - Benji York, Zope Corp Senior Software Engineer, will discuss current functional testing practices on Zope 3, including using Selenium on Zope 3, using demo storage for functional testing, and using his own compelling new functional test package. Note that the majority of this discussion has strong applicability to automated testing of all web frameworks and applications. - We will serve the now-usual geek-chic fruit, cheese, and soft drinks. - Fred Drake, Zope Corp Senior Software Engineer, Python core developer, Python documentation maintainer and editor, and co-author of the O'Reilly book Python & XML will give two of his books (http:// www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596001282/) to new attendees. Upon pressure, he admitted that he would be willing to autograph them if bribed with fruit, cheese, and soft drinks. Note that we are eager to have non-Zope-Corporation employees give presentations. :-) We had three new attendees last meeting, for a total of ten. Please come and bring friends! More information http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/ fxbgzpug_announce_3 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)

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Zope 3.1.0c1 released!
by Stephan Richter 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.1.0 candidate 1. Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. It is in our opinion that Zope 3.1 is more than ready for production use, which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We will also continue to work on making the transition between Zope 2 and Zope 3 as smooth as possible. As a first step, Zope 2.8 includes Zope 3 features in the form of Five. Please test this release carefully and send us any feedback! In particular, we have tried very hard to keep backward-compatibility with the previous X3 3.0 release, so please let us know if the new release breaks your code. Downloads http://zope.org/Products/Zope3/ Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level 'README.txt' file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.1 requires Python 2.3.5 or 2.4.1 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Important Changes Since 3.1.0b1 All of the outstanding issues in the to-do list were completed, which included many bugfixes and the removal of all outstanding XXX comments. There was also a lot of work done in fixing many places that were not translatable. Most Important Changes Since 3.0 - New Pluggable Authentication Utility (PAU), which is similar in philosophy to the Zope 2 PAS. The following features are available in the in the basic PAU facility: + Credentials Plugins: Basic HTTP Auth, Session + Authenticator Plugins: Principal Folder, Group Folder For a detailed description of the pluggable authentication utility, see 'zope/app/authentication/README.txt'. - Major simplifications to the component architecture: + Removal of the concept of a service. All outstanding services were converted to utilities: Error Reporting, FSSync, Authentication. + Site Managers are global and local now; adapters and utilties are directly registered with the site manager. Now global and local component registration and lookup behaves very similar. + Local registrations can now only have two states: active and inactive. This simplified the code so much, that 'zope.app.utility', 'zope.app.registration' and 'zope.app.site' were all merged into 'zope.app.component'. + Implemented menus as utilities. The API also supports sub-menus now. + Implemented views as adapters. Skins and layers are now simply interfaces that the request provides. - Added an integer-id facility for assigning integer identifiers to objects. - Added basic catalog and index frameworks. - Added "sources", which are like vocabularies except that they support very large collections of values that must be searched, rather than browsed. - Created a new granting UI that allows advanced searching of principal sources. - Implemented a generic user preferences systsem that was designed to be easily used in TALES expressions and via Python code. Preferences can be edited via 'http://localhost:8080/++preferences++/'. A demo of the preferences can be found at:: http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zope/app/demo/skinpref/ - ZCML now supports conditional directives using the 'zcml:condition' attribute. The condition is of the form "verb argument". Two verbs, 'have feature' and 'installed module' are currently implemented. Features can be declared via the 'meta:provides' directive. - Improved API doctool: Code Browser now shows interfaces, text files and ZCML files; the new Book Module compiles all available doctext files into an organized book; the new Type Module lets you browser all interface types and discover interfaces that provide types; views are shown in the interface details screen; views and adapters are categorized into specific, extended and generic; user preferences allow you to customize certain views; 3rd party modules can now be added to the Code Browser. - Improved I18n-based number and datetime formatting by integrating 'pytz' for timezone support, implementing all missing format characters, and reinterpreting the ICU documentation to correctly parse patterns. - Added '++debug++' traversal adapter that allows you to turn on debugging flags in 'request.debug'. Currently the following flags are defined: source, tal, errors. - Improved logout support. - Added the HTTP request recorder, which lets you inspect raw HTTP requests and responses. It can be used to create functional doctests without requiring third-party tools such as TCPWatch. - Developed a generic 'browser:form' directive. It is pretty much the same as the 'browser:editform' directive, except that the data is not stored on some context or adapted context but sent as a dictionary to special method (by default). For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file. Resources - "Zope 3 Development Web Site":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - "Zope 3 Dev Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - "Zope 3 Users Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments Thanks goes to everyone that contributed. Release date: June 18, 2005 The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.1.0 beta 1. Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. It is in our opinion that Zope 3.1 is more than ready for production use, which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We will also continue to work on making the transition between Zope 2 and Zope 3 as smooth as possible. As a first step, Zope 2.8 includes Zope 3 features in the form of Five. Please test this release carefully and send us any feedback! In particular, we have tried very hard to keep backward-compatibility with the previous X3 3.0 release, so please let us know if the new release breaks your code. Downloads http://zope.org/Products/Zope3/ Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level 'README.txt' file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.1 requires Python 2.3.5 or 2.4.1 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Most Important Changes Since 3.0 - New Pluggable Authentication Utility (PAU), which is similar in philosophy to the Zope 2 PAS. The following features are available in the in the basic PAU facility: + Credentials Plugins: Basic HTTP Auth, Session + Authenticator Plugins: Principal Folder, Group Folder For a detailed description of the pluggable authentication utility, see 'zope/app/authentication/README.txt'. - Major simplifications to the component architecture: + Removal of the concept of a service. All outstanding services were converted to utilities: Error Reporting, FSSync, Authentication. + Site Managers are global and local now; adapters and utilties are directly registered with the site manager. Now global and local component registration and lookup behaves very similar. + Local registrations can now only have two states: active and inactive. This simplified the code so much, that 'zope.app.utility', 'zope.app.registration' and 'zope.app.site' were all merged into 'zope.app.component'. + Implemented menus as utilities. The API also supports sub-menus now. + Implemented views as adapters. Skins and layers are now simply interfaces that the request provides. - Added an integer-id facility for assigning integer identifiers to objects. - Added basic catalog and index frameworks. - Added "sources", which are like vocabularies except that they support very large collections of values that must be searched, rather than browsed. - Created a new granting UI that allows advanced searching of principal sources. - Implemented a generic user preferences systsem that was designed to be easily used in TALES expressions and via Python code. Preferences can be edited via 'http://localhost:8080/++preferences++/'. A demo of the preferences can be found at:: http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zope/app/demo/skinpref/ - ZCML now supports conditional directives using the 'zcml:condition' attribute. The condition is of the form "verb argument". Two verbs, 'have feature' and 'installed module' are currently implemented. Features can be declared via the 'meta:provides' directive. - Improved API doctool: Code Browser now shows interfaces, text files and ZCML files; the new Book Module compiles all available doctext files into an organized book; the new Type Module lets you browser all interface types and discover interfaces that provide types; views are shown in the interface details screen; views and adapters are categorized into specific, extended and generic; user preferences allow you to customize certain views; 3rd party modules can now be added to the Code Browser. - Improved I18n-based number and datetime formatting by integrating 'pytz' for timezone support, implementing all missing format characters, and reinterpreting the ICU documentation to correctly parse patterns. - Added '++debug++' traversal adapter that allows you to turn on debugging flags in 'request.debug'. Currently the following flags are defined: source, tal, errors. - Improved logout support. - Added the HTTP request recorder, which lets you inspect raw HTTP requests and responses. It can be used to create functional doctests without requiring third-party tools such as TCPWatch. - Developed a generic 'browser:form' directive. It is pretty much the same as the 'browser:editform' directive, except that the data is not stored on some context or adapted context but sent as a dictionary to special method (by default). For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file. Resources - "Zope 3 Development Web Site":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - "Zope 3 Dev Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - "Zope 3 Users Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments Thanks goes to everyone that contributed. Jim Fulton, Fred Drake, Philipp von Weitershausen, Stephan Richter, Gustavo Niemeyer, Daniel Nouri, Volker Bachschneider, Roger Ineichen, Shane Hathaway, Bjorn Tillenius, Garrett Smith, Marius Gedminas, Stuart Bishop, Dominik Huber, Dmitry Vasiliev, Gary Poster, Brian Lloyd, Julien Anguenot, Albertas Agejevas, Benji York Enjoy! The Zope 3 Development Team

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Rivah Sprint
by Jim Fulton 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Zope Corporation will host a two-day sprint September 1-2 in Fredericksburg, Virginia (USA :). Sprint participants are invited to join us at our annual Bay House party on the Potomac River (actually the Lower Machodoc "creek" at the point that it enters the Potomac) on Septemer 3rd for lots of fun on the water. Sprint Participants will include Stephan Richter, Jim Fulton and several Zope Corpration engineers. The sprint is open to people already familiar with Zope 3 development. Possible topic include: - Cleanups and other improvements to the Zope 3 widget framework and the new zope.formlib. - Reimplement file objects (for Zope 2 or Zope 3 to take advantage of blobs. - Enhancement of the Zope 3 publisher to: - Better integrate with WSGI - Support Blobs Other topics are possible, depending on paticipant interest. If you are interested in participating, or have any questions, please let me know. Be aware, however that I'll be mostly off line until August 22 and may not be able to respond until then. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org

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CMF 1.5.3-beta released
by Jens Vagelpohl 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.3-beta 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 1.5.3 is expected to land within about 10 days. 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-1.5.3-beta Points of interest include: - "Windows ZIP file", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3-beta/CMF-1.5.3-beta.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3-beta/CMF-1.5.3- beta.tar.gz . - "Release notes", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3-beta/README.txt - "Change history", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3-beta/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.3-beta/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://zope.org/Collectors/CMF is the place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!) --------- Jens Vagelpohl jens(a)dataflake.org

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Zope 3 training September 19 - 21
by Brian Lloyd 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi all - Zope Corporation will hold the next session of Zope 3 for Developers training September 19-21 in Fredericksburg, VA. This three day course will familiarize developers with Zope 3 software from introductory through advanced concepts. The take-away materials provide tools for further learning, since it will not be possible to cover every topic in the sessions. We will demonstrate the flexibility and effectiveness of Zope as an Open Source web development Platform. Course Objectives To understand: * Zope's component architecture, * Creating Zope components and applications, * Building web interfaces, * Controlling security, * Using powerful Zope framework features e.g., events, metadata, schemas, testing, * Configuring and installing Zope The course is intended for developers who want to build web applications using the Zope 3 web-application server. Students should be familiar with the Python programming language and the concepts associated with web application development. While not required, students will benefit from having some familiarity with Zope 2-based application development. We offer several opportunities to meet with Zope's engineering teams, including with Jim Fulton, our CTO. Prerequisites Download Zope 2.7 and take the built-in tutorial: http://zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0 Take the Python Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html For more information or to register, please contact training(a)zope.com. For the early-bird rate, you must register by August 19th, 2005. Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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