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ZODB 3.2.1b1 released
by Jeremy Hylton 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

ZODB 3.2.1b1 was released from the regular location today: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 This is a bug fix release that tracks the Zope 2.7b3 release earlier today. The ZODB release was made from the same CVS tag as the Zope release, so the shared code is nearly identical. The final release of ZODB 3.2.1 will match Zope 2.7 exactly. I've included the latest news items below. Jeremy What's new in ZODB3 3.2.1 beta 1 ================================ Release-date: 18-Nov-2003 This code in this release should be identical to the code in Zope 2.7.0 beta 3. Changed the ZEO server and control process to work with a single configuration file; this is now the default way to configure these processes. (It's still possible to use separate configuration files.) The ZEO configuration file can now include a "runner" section used by the control process and ignored by the ZEO server process itself. If present, the control process can use the same configuration file. Fixed a performance problem in the logging code for the ZEO protocol. The logging code could call repr() on arbitrarily long lists, even though it only logged the first 60 bytes; worse, it calls repr() even if logging is currently disabled. Fixed to call repr() on individual elements until the limit is reached. ReadConflictErrors have an experimental new method, ignore(). If a database connection raises a read conflict, the current transaction was eventually be aborted. If the ignore() method is called, it will allow a transaction to commit after receiving a read conflict. This method should be used with great care, because ignoring read conflicts may allow inconsistent data to be written to the database. Several bare string exceptions were changed to raise exception objects. All these exceptions were in fairly obscure parts of the code. Bug fix for Acquisition in ExtensionClass. Zope Collector #1056: aq_acquire() ignored the default argument. The zdaemon.Daemon module was removed, because it is no longer used by zdaemon. The ZEO test suite is more robust. A variety of small changes were made that make it less likely to fail on slow or loaded machines.

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Announce: Zope 2.7.0 beta 3 released
by Brian Lloyd 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Zope 2.7.0 represents a concentration on software configuration and installation improvement over older versions. Note that Zope 2.7 now requires Python 2.3.2. You may download Zope 2.7.0b3 from Zope.org at: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0b3/2.7.0b3 Particular features of interest in Zope 2.7.0: - DBTab integration (mounted databases for Zope). - New logging module support. - ./configure; make; make install installation from source - configuration-file-driven configuration - integration of ReStructuredText - OrderedFolder support - Many bugxfixes For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0b3/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0b3/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: - http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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ZopeMag Weekly News - Issue 8
by Mark Pratt 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hello all, Just wanted to let you know that Issue 8 of ZopeMag Weekly News is out. Go to: http://weekly.zopemag.com/ We don't announce every edition on this mailinglist so you just have to remember to pay us a weekly visit ;-) Regards, Mark

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Archetypes 1.2.0 final Released
by Sidnei da Silva 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

The Archetypes Team is proud to present the Archetypes 1.2.0 final release. This release is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Archetypes 1.0.x as it brings a whole set of improvements which also include security and some unicode handling fixes. What is Archetypes? Archetypes (formerly known as CMFTypes) is a framework designed to facilitate the building of applications for Plone and CMF. Its main purpose is to provide a common method for building content objects, based on schema definitions. Fields can be grouped for editing, making it very simple to create wizard-like forms. If you are new to Archetypes, you can also check the free introductory Archetypes article, published in ZopeMag: http://www.zopemag.com/Issue006/Section_Articles/article_IntroToArchteypes.… Changes since 1.0.1: - Revisited security permissions - New BSD-like licensing option (1.0.2 - 1.2.0beta1 were licensed under the GPL) - The new BaseUnit is used by default now. The old one is still available but will be removed on the next release - Added ``VariableSchemaSupport`` - Multi-Catalog support (one catalog per portal type) - Improved mime-type detection when uploading files - New test suite, based on ZopeTestCase_ - Templates are now using the Plone 2.0 style (which makes them somewhat unusable under Plone 1.0.x, unfortunately) - Should be usable with plain CMF (though not as pretty :) - Added registries for Widgets, Fields, Types, Validators (missing Storage registry, will be added on 1.2.1) - DisplayList is now public, meaning you can import it from a Script (Python) - 'visible' setting on Widgets should work now - It is possible to specify the Image class on the ImageField now, thanks to Jeff Kunce - Extended fields index attribute syntax to support extra arguments. That allows for instance to add a ZCTextIndex:: index='ZCTextIndex, lexicon_id=lexicon, index_type=Okapi BM25 Rank' - Added several interface tests, thanks to Tiran - Should work with External Editor in most of the cases - Should work with WebDAV if you have a PrimaryFieldMarshaller, and set 'primary = 1' on a TextField - Default marshaller is RFC822Marshaller, which marshalls all the fields as RFC822-style headers, plus the primary field as the body of the document. - Added some initial support for the ArcheBuilder_. This is in its very very initial state, but you can read about the plans at `this url`_ As of beta3, ArchGenXML is included in this tarball. Here's a short description of ArchGenXML: ArchGenXML is a commandline utility that generates Plone applications based on the Archetypes framework from XMI (UML) and XSD (XMLSchema) files. It is tested with the XMI output from the following tools: ObjectDomain, Sybase PowerDesigner, ArgoUML, Poseidon, KDE's Umbrello. Tarball: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1.2.0.tgz?download .. _ZopeTestCase: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/collective/ZopeTestCase/ .. _this url: http://awkly.org/Members/sidnei/weblog_storage/blog_92759 .. _ArcheBuilder: http://awkly.org/files/archebuilder/archebuilder.xul -- Sidnei da Silva <sidnei(a)awkly.org> http://awkly.org - dreamcatching :: making your dreams come true http://plone.org/about/team#dreamcatcher To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System.

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PloneCollectorNG 1.0 beta 2 released
by Andreas Jung 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.0 beta 2 (PCNG) PCNG is a bugtracking system for Plone. It is based on the concepts and ideas of CMFCollector and CMFCollectorNG but it is a complete re-write. One major highlight of this new version is the built-in TTW editor for Archetypes schemas. This means you can edit the complete fields for your issue (field types and widgets) through-the-web including the use of schemats etc. Another goal of the new implementation was to focus on security. So I dropped the old workflow and created a new one (which is much simpler). The codebase is very small and generic and therefore very much extensible for the future. Changes since V 1.0 beta 1 - the complete UI for issues is now generic. No more needs to touch the skins - UI: using fieldsets instead of <DIV class="group"> etc. - added a new member preference to turn email notifications on/off - lots of minor UI improvements and cleanup - completed migration script for CMFCollectorNG -> PloneCollectorNG - Upgrade maintenance option for changed collector schemas - Collector and Issue instance use now !BTreeFolder2 as base class (this might raise some upgrade problems with existing PCNG instances). - added 'pcng_overview' for an overview over all collector instances including some stats - added filters to search form ATTENTION: If you upgrade from an earlier release of PCNG you should re-install the product using the Add/Remove products in the Plone setup. ATTENTION TO USERS of Plone 2.0 beta 3: portal_workflow has been removed in Plone 2b3 from the action provider list. This is a *big problem* and will be fixed in the next Plone release. To fix this: - remove the "deleteActionProvider()" call in CMFPlone/setup/ConfigurationMethods.py line 175 - *recreate* your Plone 2.0 site (if created *with* Plone 2.0 beta 3) - there is currently no support from my side to re-enable the portal_workflow as action provider for Plone sites created under Plone 2.0 beta 3 Wiki and Download: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG Cheers, -aj

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CMFLinkChecker 0.2rc1 released
by Christian Theune 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

The CMFLinkChecker is preparing for release 0.2 and published the first release candidate. Changes include: - Better usability on overview page - Stability bugs fixed - New: Manual default prefix for relative links Get it: The CMFLinkChecker is available from "the collective" CVS on sourceforge. Or from our FTP at ftp://ftp.gocept.com/CMFLinkChecker . Report bugs: If you find bugs you want to report, please don't hesitate to use our bugtracker at http://bugs.gocept.com We are happy to read your feedback, Christian Theune -- Christian Theune, gocept gmbh & co. kg http://www.gocept.com - ct(a)gocept.com fon: 03496 3099112 fax: 03496 3099118 mobile: 0179 7808366

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[Ann] epoz 1.0 beta1 released
by Philipp von Weitershausen 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

The epoz project is pleased to announce the first beta version of its cross-browser visual HTML editor! Originally written by Maik Jablonski, the editor famous in the world of Zope and Plone was completely redesigned by Paul Everitt (Zope Europe Association) and Guido Wesdorp (Infrae) and Philipp von Weitershausen (philiKON Valley). The result is a very flexible editing machine based on the following concepts: - Integration epoz was designed to be highly integrable into target products. It uses Zope Page Templates (ZPT) for the XHTML templating. ZPTs hide templating instructions in XML namespaces. That way, all XHTML templates in epoz remain valid XHTML documents and should be able to be used in similar templating systems without modification. That also means, epoz can directly be used off of the filesystem or served by Apache, without any templating engine. - Document-centric and asynchronous editing Other in-browser editors simply provide a replacement for the textarea element in XHTML forms. epoz instead focuses on document-centric editing. It lets you edit the contents of an XHTML document and dublin core metadata (Title, Creator etc.) in a compact and standard-conformant way. Upon save, epoz constructs a full-fledged XHTML document again and invokes a PUT request to the server. Being a standard HTTP command, PUT requests can be served by nearly any webserver, even Apache (with mod_dav)! - Customization and extensibility The looks of epoz can be modified without having to modify the XHTML templates by simply customizing the Cascading Style Sheets. Its JavaScript architecture has been modelled after the MVC concept. That means you may customize large or small parts of the editor without having to reimplement or subclass anything, but it also means extending epoz's functionality is just as easy. Where can I get it? You may download a tarball at the the epoz project homepage at Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84377 How can I use it? epoz comes with a great deal of documentation already. The INSTALL.txt file in the 'doc' directory should provide a small set of introductions for Zope users. If you would like to see epoz in action without having to install it in Zope, you may either download the tarball and open 'common/epozmacros.html' in your browser or visit the following URL (served by Apache, btw): http://www.philikon.de/files/epoz/common/epozmacros.html If you happen to succeed at integrating epoz into your favourite web application server, feel free to contact us if you would like to contribute your code to the project. Equally, any documentation about how to integrate, customize or extend are very welcome. What to expect for future releases - Link and image toolbox: The original Epoz editor provided a toolbox for Plone users that was loaded in a browser pop-up window. Since epoz 1.0 puts a lot of focus on document-centric editing, it places toolbox elements such as a link or image browser and table creator right on the edit page. Results for link and image searching will be loaded asynchronously in a yet-to-defined XML format. In upcoming releases, we will provide asynronous server-side methods for link and image searching in Zope2, CMF, Plone and Zope3. - Plone integration: Although we have made an effort to integrate it with Plone 1.0/2.0, we have seen that current versions of Plone does not allow an editor to take over for document-centric editing. Philipp has made a Plone Improvement Proposal (PLIP) to provide a visual editing architecture in Plone (http://plone.org/development/current/projects/PLIP5) The proposal has been accepted by the community and Philipp is currently implementing. It is expected that Plone 2.1 will be ready to be plugged together with upcoming versions of epoz. How to report bugs? Please help us make epoz 1.0 bugfree and report bugs you encounter at: http://codespeak.net/issues/epoz/ (mind the trailing slash) Further questions? Write us to: epoz-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net We are looking forward to your comments. On behalf of the epoz project, Philipp von Weitershausen

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Archetypes 1.2.0-beta3 Released
by Sidnei da Silva 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

We are proud to present the beta 3 release of Archetypes 1.2.0. This release includes the following improvements, in no particular order: - Added two new classes: BaseContentMixin and BaseFolderMixin which are exactly like BaseFolder and BaseContent, but without the ExtensibleMetadata. In fact, they are BaseFolder and BaseContent stripped down and BaseFolder and BaseContent just subclass them. - BaseObject now uses getCharset to consistently use the portal charset in all places where unicode is used. - Added tests for External Editor integration. Make sure a BaseUnit is always returned. - Merged patch by Ricardo Lemmi for GadflyStorage. - Fixed unicode tests that were broken - Added a few marshaller tests (to check that both a .doc and a .rst file are uploaded and retrieved correctly by default) - Fixed BaseObject.get_size() to behave correctly w/ regards to DateTime fields and other fields that are not easily measureable - Added an optional 'values' keyword argument to processForm which has preference over REQUEST.form - Various improvements on schema migration, thanks to Geoff Davis - DisplayList is now publically accessible. That means you can import it from Script (Python) With those changes, Archetypes is now quickly approaching a final and stable release. This release no more includes a CVS checkout of PortalTransforms, since a release has been made last week. Instead, you can get PortalTransforms from this location: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/PortalTransforms-1.0.tar.gz?d… See the PortalTransforms announcement here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=326571 OTOH, this release includes ArchGenXML, which is a tool to generate Archetypes-enabled products from UML diagrams. From ArchGenXML README: ArchGenXML is a commandline utility that generates Plone applications based on the Archetypes framework from XMI (UML) and XSD (XMLSchema) files. It is tested with the XMI output from the following tools: ObjectDomain, Sybase PowerDesigner, ArgoUML, Poseidon, KDE's Umbrello. The Archetypes tarball can found at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1.2.0_beta3.tgz?do… Have fun and please report any bugs you may find at the Archetypes SF Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=75272 Thank you for listening! On behalf of the Archetypes Team, -- Sidnei da Silva <sidnei(a)awkly.org> http://awkly.org - dreamcatching :: making your dreams come true http://plone.org/about/team#dreamcatcher Ignorance is bliss. -- Thomas Gray Fortune updates the great quotes, #42: BLISS is ignorance.

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COREBlog 0.52b - Zope Blog Product
by Atsushi Shibata 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

COREBlog 0.52b has been released ! http://zope.org/Members/ats/COREBlog/ COREBlog is a Zope Blog/Weblog/Web Nikki Product. Easy to setup,Full featured,Ubiquitous and Customizable! And now it has a 'moblog' feature - you can add a new entry via email! COREBlog now supports UTF-8. And PING Service started. http://coreblog.org/ping/ Features. * Moblog - you can add new entry via email (New in 0.5b) * PING to weblogs.com, etc. (New in 0.5b) * Categories * TrackBack * Object management with ZMI * Calendar interface Have fun :-). ---------------------------------------- Atsushi Shibata (Webcore Corp.) shibata(a)webcore.co.jp http://www.webcore.co.jp/ ----------------------------------------

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opensourcexperts.com
by Mark Pratt 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Dear Zope Community, We are pleased to announce opensourcexperts.com ! A web application built with Zope, Apache, MySQL, Python, CoreBlog, Issue Tracker, and a whole lot of sweat and love. Take the Tour and find out why you might have to visit regularly ;-) http://www.opensourcexperts.com/Tour/index.html Enjoy! Mark,

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