March 2006 - Zope-Announce

ANNOUNCE: Zenoss 0.19.3 Available
by Bill Karpovich 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Version 0.19.3 of Zenoss is available for download. This version fixes several bugs and switches to Zope-2.8.6. To download: http://www.zenoss.org/download http://dev.zenoss.org/downloads/zenoss-0.19.3.tar.gz Release Notes: http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/wiki/zenoss-0.19 List of Closed Tickets: http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/query?status=closed&milestone=zenoss-0.19.3 ----------- Project Blurb: Zenoss is a powerful network and systems monitoring application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides monitoring of organization-wide infrastructure in an integrated product. Key features include: - Monitoring across layers (network, servers, apps, environment...) - Monitoring across platforms (windows, linux, unix...) - Monitoring across perspectives (availability, perf, events, config) - Support for various collection methods (SNMP, WMI, SSH, Telnet, ICMP) - Automated modeling of the IT environment - Role-based access/management through web portal - GPL License Enjoy, Bill Bill Karpovich bk(a)zenoss.org

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[ANN] Zope 2.9.2 released
by Andreas Jung 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.9.2. You can download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.2/ Some new features of Zope 2.9: - ZODB 3.6 - Five 1.3 - integration for Zope 3 events for object creation and deletion - Zope 3 i18n integration for page templates For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.2/CHANGES.txt Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: "http://collector.zope.org/Zope":http://collector.zope.org/Zope 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 Support Python versions: Zope 2.9 requires Python 2.4.2 (Python 2.4.1 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Thanks to all being involved in this release. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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CMF 2.0.0-beta2 released
by Jens Vagelpohl 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.0-beta2 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 2.0.0 is expected on Sunday, April 16 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 2.0.0-beta2 release represents the next step on the way to the stable 2.0.0 release and adds bug fixes only. Where do I get it? Download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.0.0-beta2 Points of interest include: - Windows ZIP file: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.0.0-beta2/CMF-2.0.0- beta2.zip - Unix tar/gzip archive: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.0.0-beta2/CMF-2.0.0- beta2.tar.gz - Release notes: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.0.0-beta2/README.txt - Change history: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.0.0-beta2/CHANGES.txt - Installation instructions: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.0.0-beta2/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://www.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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEJnPIRAx5nvEhZLIRAu1CAJwJw/zW882a28F5PPBb4KngXIBROwCgrfCA 8/owa66cZcIqCJHrVD1a1CM= =nHse -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANNOUNCE: Zope Foundation is incorporated!
by Rob Page 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

At long last the Zope Foundation is incorporated! Thanks to everyone who has helped get the Foundation to this point!! What's next? o Complete ZF organizational paperwork with Software Freedom Law Center o Migrate Committers from the Zope Corp Committer agreement to the Zope Foundation Committer Agreement o Open the ZF up to membership o Conduct elections of BoD members We are seeking volunteers to help with v0.1 of an electronic voting application. We would like to target The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work for this iteration. If you would like to contribute to an extremely important part of the launch of the Zope Foundation, please reply to the Foundation mailing list - foundation(a)zope.org. Thanks!! -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1 extension modules for Window available
by Andreas Jung 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

I happy to make the binary versions of the TextIndexNG V 3.1 extension modules for Window available: <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/textindexng/TextIndexNG3-3.1.8-lib.win32…> The archive was contributed by Daniel Berhane <dberhane(a)bmj.com> (Thanks!). To install the extension modules you need to unpack the archive and ensure that the 'zopyx' subdirectory is *somewhere* in your Python search path (please check the Python documentation for details on the Python search path and using the PYTHONPATH environment variable). -aj ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Ltd. & Co KG - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com, www.zopyx.de - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope Newsletter
by Michael Haubenwallner 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

The new PlanetZope blog features a bi-weekly Zope Newsletter. It is a summary of Zope related news (collected from RSS feeds and mailinglists), software releases, sprint/conference news and useful links. The service is up for 1 month now, your feedback is welcome. * Fortnightly Zope News <http://blog.planetzope.org/> * Syndicate <http://blog.planetzope.org/feeds/> Michael -- http://zope.org/Members/d2m http://planetzope.org

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Zope Debugger 0.8.2 Released!
by Chris Withers 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Zope Debugger is an enhanced version of pdb for use with Zope. This release fixes compatability issues with Zope 2.9 and Python 2.4. It can be used simply by inserting the following lines in any python code you'd like to debug, including Script (Python)'s and FSPythonScripts: from Products.zdb import set_trace set_trace() It requires no changes to Zope, CMF or Plone or any funky interaction with any specific kind of editing software. All you really need to do is insert the snippet above and make sure your Zope instance is running in foreground mode. For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/zdb cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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mod_pcgi2 has been declared obsolete
by Oleg Broytmann 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hello! Zope lost support for PCGI protocol at version 2.7. Because of this I stopped maintaining mod_pcgi2. Today I switched my last site that have used mod_pcgi2 to mod_proxy. Now mod_pcgi2 is declared obsolete. Please use mod_proxy or mod_fastcgi instead. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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Nuxeo releases CPSGroupware 1.9
by Lennart Regebro 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

March 20, 2006 -- Nuxeo is pround to release CPSGroupware 1.9 CPSGroupware is a bundle of the CPSMailAccess webmail client and the CPSSharedCalendar web calendar. It adds powerful groupware feature to the CPS Platform, hence tightly integrate ECM and Groupware features. CPSMailAccess is a full featured open source webmail application for CPS3. It provides a flexible web interface to browse and send mails, fully integrated to CPS portals, as it can be used by any allowed member of the portal. CPSMailAccess goes further in the integration of the mail with the ECM space: unified search (corporate documents and mails), support of workflow on mails, etc. Features of CPSMailAccess include among others: * AJAX based mail editor, * drag'n'drop for mails and folders, * incoming mails filtering, * private and public address books, * mail indexing and search, * etc. Recent changes includes: * GenericSetup support for easier install * Protected folders, * Improved search, * and of course bugfixes. For more functional and technical information, see the CPSMailAccess web site: * http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/cpsmailaccess CPSSharedCalendar is an advanced, flexible, standard-based calendaring component for the CPS Platform. It allows CPS users to access personal, group and resource calendars using a web interface. Events on the calendar can be shared between multiple users, resourcs and meetings can be booked. Features of the CPSSharedCalendar include among others: * a web interface for managing calendars, * integration with iCalendar clients (Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird...) using the iCalendar protocol, * invitation workflow, * meeting support, * meeting helper that looks for free time, * etc. CPSSharedCalendar a part of Nuxeos new generation calendar software suite. It has been written from the ground up to be easy to integrate with other Zope 2 platforms such as Plone and Silva, and with portability to Zope 3 in mind. Its Python core component (CalCore) can even be used outside of Zope altogether. Recent changes includes: * Using the tighter integration of Zope 3.2 and Zope 2.9 for greater future compatibility, * GenericSetup support for installation and upgrades, * And of course, various minor bugfixes. For more functional and technical information, see the CPSSharedCalendar web site: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/calendar_server You can download CPSGroupware 1.9.0 here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CPSGroupware-1.9.0-1.tgz Look at the README.txt file in the package for more information on how to install CPSGroupware. If you'd like to help with CPSGroupware development, please join the cps-devel mailing list at http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel (a dedicated list will be created if needed in the future). -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/

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Nuxeo Calendar Server released in version 2
by Fermigier Stefane 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Nuxeo Calendar Server released in version 2 ------------------------------------------- Nuxeo releases version 2 of it's calendar products for Python and Zope, updating to the latest technology frameworks. Nuxeo proudly presents version 2 of it's calendar framework. The calendar framework is a set of advanced, flexible calendar components for Python and Zope. CalCore is a calendar component for Python. It allows the Python developer do write advanced calendar applications either using their own event storage or integrating with external calendar servers. Features of the CalCore include among others: * Support for making private calendars, shared calendars, resource booking and more, * invitation workflow, * iCalendar import and export, * meeting support, including helper functions to look for free time, * recurring event support, * etc. CalZope is the Zope module that provides a web user interface for CalCore. Features include: * an internationalized web user interface, * integration with iCalendar clients (Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, ...) using the iCalendar and http, * an advanced meeting helper that allows you to search for free time amongst the invited users, * etc. The changes between version 1 and version 2 have been mostly in CalZope, where we now have started using more of the techniques available through the tighter integration of Zope 3s component architecture in Zope 2. * Local utilities instead of portal tools, providing for an easier installation and greater portability to various non-CMF frameworks, such as Silva and Zope 3. * zope.i18n for internationalization providing translations of CalZope without additional tools such as Localizer or PTS. CalZope will in a standard Zope now be automaticaly translated into english, french and more, and you can easily add your own translations. * Install script, so you can easily try CalZope out in a pure Zope environment. * And of course, various minor bugfixes. For CPS users, all these modules are a part of the CPSGroupware bundle, together with the CPSMailAccess webmail client. For more functional and technical information, see the Calendar Server web site: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/calendar_server CalCore v2 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CalCore-bundle-2.0.1.tgz CalZope v2 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CalZope-bundle-2.2.2.tgz CPSGroupware 1.9.0 for CPS 3.4.0 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CPSGroupware-1.9.0-1.tgz If you'd like to help with development or porting to other platforms, please join the cps-devel mailing list at http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel Enjoy, S. -- Stefane Fermigier - CEO, Nuxeo SAS - http://www.nuxeo.com/en/ Open Source ECM provider - http://www.cps-project.org Free software developer - http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/fermigier

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