February 2006 - Zope-Announce

CMF 1.5.6-beta released
by Jens Vagelpohl 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.6-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 1.5.6 is expected on Sunday, February 26 2006. 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. What's new in this release? The 1.5.6-beta release represents a pure bug fix/maintenance release without feature additions. Where do I get it? Download it from http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.6-beta Points of interest include: - Windows ZIP file: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.6-beta/CMF-1.5.6-beta.zip - Unix tar/gzip archive: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.6-beta/CMF-1.5.6-beta.tar.gz - Release notes: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.6-beta/README.txt - Change history: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.6-beta/CHANGES.txt - Installation instructions: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.6-beta/INSTALL.txt - CMF Release Roadmap: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap 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 at 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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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.5
by Andreas Jung 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.5. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or in Zope 3. What's new? - multi-field indexing and query support - multi-lingual support - configurable converters (through ZCML) - new indexing API (allowing you to hook your custom content types with TextIndexNG through Zope 3 adapters). Changes in V 3.1.5: - fixed a persistence problem - re-packaged all extension modules ATTENTION: - the extension modules **MUST BE RECOMPILED** and **REINSTALLED** (as documented in the README.txt) - for existing installations you need to remove and re-create all TextIndexNG 3 indexes manually and reindex afterwards - Plone users can re-create their indexes using by calling the URL http://host:port/path/to/plone/portal_catalog/txng_convert_indexes?overwrit… Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.1+ Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.biz/OpenSource/TextIndexNG3 For installation and documentation issues refer to doc/README.txt from the archive. It's basically the same procedure as with former versions except you *need* to recompile the extension modules. Windows binaries of the required extension modules are currently not available (any volunteers?). TextIndexNG V 3 is published under the ZPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Small Spam Vulnerability in Squishdot
by Chris Withers 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Garikoitz Araolaza <garaolaza(a)codesyntax.com> has discovered a vulnerability in Squishdot that can result in a Squishdot Site being used to send spam. Full discussion and a fix can be found here: http://www.squishdot.org/1139510883 cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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Fredericksburg ZPUG February 15: ZODB Blob support, Zope 3 C2 certification, Twisted book review
by Gary Poster 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Please join us February 15, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the eighth meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Topics are ZODB Blob support, Zope 3 C2 certification, and a Twisted book review. This meeting is moved from the usual date (second Wednesday) to accommodate the visit of Christian Theune, an active member of the Zope community who will be visiting from Europe. More detail on topics: * Christian Theune is leading an effort to get Zope 3 Common Criteria certified. The Common Criteria is an international security evaluation program for software, based on US, Canadian, and European standards (more information at the bottom of this email). Christian will talk about this process and ask for feedback and ideas about the C2 certification of Zope 3. * Christian is also working with one of our ZPUG attendees, Chris McDonough, to add blob support to the Zope Object Database (ZODB), which essentially makes working with large blobs in the ZODB more efficient. He will talk about progress and approach for this effort. * Benji York will review the O'Reilly book about the Twisted network programming framework, with Zac Bir and Gary Poster chiming in occasionally. * We will serve delicious food and soft drinks. Next meeting, March 8, will have Brian Lloyd talk about IronPython (a Microsoft-sponsored implementation of Python on .Net); and Gary Poster talk about zasync 2, an in-development tool based on Twisted and Zope 3; and possibly other topics. The following meeting, April 12, will have Zac Bir talk about a Twisted-based application on Mac OS X; and other topics. We've had a nice group for all the meetings. Please come and bring friends! 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 or Zope. Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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CMFBoard to Ploneboard migration pledge drive
by Morten W. Petersen 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

A number of users are stuck with CMFBoard and Plone 2.0.5, we'd like to do something about that. We (Nidelven IT) have a number of customers of the non-profit type (artistic and idealistic organizations) that are stuck with CMFBoard and Plone 2.0.5. Others Plone users are also stuck with CMFBoard, the number is tenfold, if not much more. We would like to help these users migrate to Plone 2.1.2 which has more and improved features, but CMFBoard is a showstopper as people have invested time in posts written on these forums and they can't just be deleted. Therefore we are asking all members of the Zope/Plone community to pledge a small or larger sum of money towards a set of scripts and Howto's that will help people move to an improved version of Plone. To read more about the pledge, go to the weblog post: http://www.nidelven-it.no/weblogs/hosting/blog_entry?id=1139231847X82 -- Morten W. Petersen Email: morten(a)nidelven-it.no Phone: +47 45 44 00 69 Title: Project manager Nidelven IT (http://www.nidelven-it.no) We provide Zope/Plone hosting and consulting

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Booksigning Party at PyCon This Year -- UPDATE
by Jeff Rush 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

DO NOT BRING YOUR OWN BOOKS For inventory security reasons, please do NOT bring your own books to the bookstore to be signed. Mixing attendee books with store books in a party atmosphere would be difficult to manage and we need to be considerate of the store. I mispoke in the original announcement. So that the bookstore can have copies on-hand, we'd like to collect a list of titles you'd consider having signed. Please edit the following wiki page and add your choices. Authors, you can add your books too. http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/BookSigning -Jeff

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Booksigning Party at PyCon This Year!
by Jeff Rush 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Because many authors of books related to Python will be in attendance at PyCon, we would like to organize a book signing activity. It seems logical to hold it Saturday night at the party at the Nerdbooks.com bookstore. Bring your own books or buy new ones in the store! And if you're an author in attendance who would like to promote your book, drop an email to "jeff at taupro.com" or come forward when we call the book signing to order in the store. So that the bookstore can have copies on-hand, we'd like to collect a list of titles you'd consider having signed. Please edit the following wiki page and add your choices. Authors, you can add your books too. http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/BookSigning -Jeff

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Silva 1.5 released
by Martijn Faassen 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Silva 1.5 released 2 february 2006 -- Infrae has just released version 1.5 of the Silva content management system. Silva 1.5 is the first Silva release that really starts using Zope 3 technology in the core, and is the first step in a longer evolution. It does not have a lot of externally visible feature changes, but focuses on making Silva work with Zope 2.8 and Five 1.2. Some of the changes: * Silva now uses Zope 3 interfaces. SilvaLayout (to be released) does not have to create Zope 3 marker interfaces anymore. * Silva now uses the Five/Zope 3 i18n architecture. PlacelessTranslationService is not in use anymore. * Use Zope 2.8 style ZODB transactions. * Some view code has been converted to be based on Zope 3 views. Some adapters have been converted to be true Zope 3 adapters. See doc/developer_changes.txt in the Silva core package for more details about these changes. And of course a lot of bugs have been squashed: see HISTORY.txt in the package for complete details. What is Silva? 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. For more complete information, see the Silva Product Pages at http://www.infrae.com/products/silva. Download The package can be downloaded from http://www.infrae.com/download/Silva/. Links to developer mailing lists, the issue tracker, and info about CVS access can be found on the Silva Product pages. Contact FMI contact Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.

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Zwiki 0.50 released
by Simon Michael 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Zwiki 0.50 has been released at http://zwiki.org . Zwiki is a free, powerful, easy to use and manage wiki engine for Zope 2; it works with standard Zope, CMF or Plone sites. See below for other useful urls. Almost no changes this month; skip this one (and send patches). Summary Minor changes. Changes Mail - show subscriber counts in subscribeform General - add names from ZwikiContributors to CONTRIBUTORS.txt Useful urls: * http://zwiki.org - start here * http://joyful.com - zwiki demos, related wikis, free zwiki hosting * http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com - blog * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwiki - wikipedia entry, please update

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