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ZWiki 0.5 "Simple" released
by Simon Michael 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

I streamlined the default pages and UI, and disabled the experimental catalog support. This release is intended to be immediately usable out of the box. Importing zwiki.zexp is not required but recommended. http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki is a wiki-on-zope product. Send comments and bugreports to me, the lists or zwikiweb (http://www.joyful.com/zwiki) Thanks! -Simon

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past zope@zope.org archives temporarily unavailable
by Ken Manheimer 22 Mar '00

22 Mar '00

As some of you have noticed, the zope(a)zope.org maillist archives have not been tracking new postings as of last thursday, when a mail system glitch trashed the list and the archives. We got the list back immediately, but the archives have yet to be resurrected. I'm hoping to get them back online tonight. (Unexpected exceptions tripped up the last attempt, and the rebuild needs to be done in the off-hours because it locks the list in the meanwhile, and the meanwhile is long...) Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 22 Mar '00

22 Mar '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday before Noon. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * Two new Zope revisions were released this week. 2.1.5 filled in security holes which affected sites which allow untrusted users to create DTML documents. Ironically, a bug-fix which was included in 2.1.5 broke code which depended on the bug. This was fixed in the second release, 2.1.6. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.5/Zope_215_release http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.6/Zope_216_release * Thanks to Eduardo Fernandez Corrales, the Zope Weekly News is now available in Spanish! He is publishing translations at Zope Hispano, a portal for Spanish-speaking Zope developers and users. http://zope.sistelnet.es * Healtheon | WebMD is hiring in Atlanta, GA Healtheon | WebMD is looking for Software Engineers with experience in Python and/or Zope to work in our Global News Center located in Midtown Atlanta, GA. You must be willing to relocate. http://www.zope.org/Members/kbirch-webmd/hiring-notice New Products * The Portal Toolkit has been packaged into a snapshot release for use by those who do not have access to CVS. The PTK is targeted at community-oriented portals, but is also appropriate for any site which wants to give members a personalised view of content. The snapshot release is 0.7.1. http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK Updates * Software Product: load_site.py with additional features, by Itamar Shtull-Trauring Itamar has updated his powered-up 'load_site.py' again. The present release is 1.3.1. This update adds a GUI, built with wxPython. 'load_site' is a utility for dumping content from a file system into the ZODB. http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site * Software Product: ZopeEDIT, by "jimbag" The latest release of this product, 0.0.5, adds limited RPC support which is used to create and delete folders. ZopeEDIT is a tool which enables any text editor to edit content on a live Zope server. It does not need to run on the same machine as the Zope server. http://www.zope.org/Members/jimbag/ZopeEDIT/ * Software Product: LocalFS, by Jonothan Farr Version 0.1.6, the Ides of March release, fixes several bugs, is more robust about determining file types, and creates XMLDocuments and StructuredDocuments automatically, where appropriate. LocalFS is a product which allows Zope to serve files out of a local filesystem. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000130.html * Software Product: SiteAccess, by Evan Simpson Evan has release version 1.0.1 of SiteAccess. This version fixes a bug which interfered with FTP access to Zope. The SiteAccess product allows Zope to serve different content depending on the hostname the site was accessed by. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess Zope.org items * How-To: VersionFTPServer, by "htrd" This How-To describes modifications to Zope which allow you to work within a Version through FTP. Versions allow you to stage changes to a Zope site by effectively forking the database. Changes that you make in a Version are not publicly visible until you ask them to be. http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/howto/VersionFTPServer * How-To: How To: Use GenericUserFolder with an SQL database Version 1.1, by "hippy" This How-To shows how to customise GenericUserFolder(GUF) to use an SQL database as its repository for usernames, passwords, roles and anything else you want to store about a user. The update adds information from Dennis Baker to help get things going with MySQL. http://www.zope.org/Members/hippy/GUF_SQL_crypt_1_1 -- Mike Pelletier.

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March 2000 growth of Zope on Internet
by jlim＠natsoft.com.my 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

Hello, The latest figures for Web servers using Frontier and Zope on the Internet are out. Zope continues its phenomenal growth. Apache is also growing furiously also. Dates: Feb 1 to Mar 1 Zope: 26% from 305 to 385 servers Frontier: 13% from 175 to 198 Apache: 21% from 6.48m to 7.87m IIS: 12% from 2.44m to 2.74m Visit http://webfeet.editthispage.com/frontier for detailed charts. PS: These figures do not include copies of Zope/Frontier used as Content Servers running behind other Web servers. Data from Netcraft surveys. --- "Stressed spelled backwards is desserts." jlim(a)natsoft.com.my NATSOFT MALAYSIA (60)3-706 1216 Visit my web site for Asian and local e-biz news http://webfeet.editthispage.com/

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LocalFS v0.1.7 released
by Jonothan Farr 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

I've released LocalFS v0.1.7. It hasn't been tested extensively so I've left the bits for v0.1.6 up on the site. I'm just too excited to wait. :) The url is: http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS Enhancements in v0.1.7: - Added the ability to customize mappings between file extension, content-type, and Zope object class. - Added the ability to customize content-type to icon mappings. - LocalFS objects now work with the <dtml-tree> tag, so they can be traversed using the navigation menu. (plus a few bug fixes) If you try it out please let me know what you think or if you find any problems. Thanks, -jfarr

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[ANNOUNCE] Zope 2.1.6 released...
by Brian Lloyd 20 Mar '00

20 Mar '00

Hi all, Zope 2.1.6 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.6/ This release fixes a few issues with Friday's 2.1.5 security update release: o Some bits from the currently development branch got into the 2.1.x release branch, causing problems for folks using certain database adapters - this has been fixed. o A fix to Acquisition that happened in 2.1.5 caused a problem with ZClasses, since some of the code in Factory.py previously worked around the problem and now no longer needed to. This has been fixed in 2.1.6. Users of the SiteAccess product should note that the security changes in 2.1.5 necessarily require a change to the SiteAccess product - as he noted in a previous email to the zope list, Evan will be releasing an updated SiteAccess shortly. Also, the XMLDocument product has a buglet that was made effective by a fix to a bug in Acquisition. Prior to 2.1.5, there were cases where acquisition-wrapped objects sometimes didn't have their full acquisition context. This was fixed in 2.1.5. Unfortunately, some applications may depend on the old incomplete wrapping. :( Currently, when you add an XML document, you will get a WrongDocumentException. This can be fixed by changing: if document and ownerDocument and document != ownerDocument: to: if (document and ownerDocument and getattr(document, 'aq_base', document) is not getattr(ownerDocument, 'aq_base', ownerDocument) ): in the appendChild method in class Node in file Node.py. A new rev of XMLDocument containing this fix will be available soon. Note that we have also posted "diff" updates as .tgz files that will let you easily upgrade an existing 2.1.x site. These updates are available for those currently using the 2.1.x source release or the 2.1.x binary releases for either solaris or linux. To apply a differential update to your site: o download the appropriate .tgz file from zope.org o shutdown your Zope process o copy the .tgz to your Zope directory and extract it o run w_pcgi or wo_pcgi *if you are not using a binary release* o restart your process Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope 2.1.5 release and *security update*
by Brian Lloyd 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Hi all, Zope 2.1.5 has been released - you can download it from the usual place on Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.5/ This release fixes two fairly important security issues that have recently come to our attention: o It was possible for a Zope user with a fair amount of Zope zen and permission to create DTML documents and Folders to circumvent the security machinery within DTML in certain situations, possibly giving the user the ability to use resources that he wouldn't otherwise be able to access via DTML. o It also came to our attention that the DTML code in ZSQLMethod objects was not subject to the same security constraints as the DTML code in DTMLMethods and DTML Documents. The 2.1.5 release fixes both of these issues and we highly recommend that you upgrade, especially if you use Zope for sites that allow untrusted users to create Folders and DTML Documents or DTML Methods. The release also includes a number of recent bug fixes, including the problem in TimeStamp objects that caused the bobobase_modification_time() of Zope objects to appear to be a day behind. Note that this release contains two binary changes, so those running Zope from the source release will need to rebuild the Zope extensions after applying the update. The fixes are also available in CVS and binaries will need to be rebuilt after the update for those of you using CVS. Note that with the 2.1.5 release we will also be releasing "diff" updates as .tgz files that will let you easily upgrade an existing 2.1.x site. These updates are available for those currently using the 2.1.x source release or the 2.1.x binary releases for either solaris or linux (diff releases are not available for win32 for now). To apply a differential update to your site: o download the appropriate .tgz file from zope.org o shutdown your Zope process o copy the .tgz to your Zope directory and extract it o run w_pcgi or wo_pcgi *if you are not using a binary release* o restart your process Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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New LocalFS Release
by Jonothan Farr 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

Version 0.1.6 of LocalFS is out. I'm calling this one the Ides of March release. :) New in v0.1.6: - Fixed a bug with filtering in directory browse view. - Fixed bogus text/html content-type on non-HTML files. - Use a more aggressive search to determine whether files are binary or text. This causes directory browsing to take a bit longer but hopefully prevents file corruption problems. - Added a Properties tab which allows specifying custom properties. - Improved the formatting of directory browse view again with tables. - Convert .xml files to XMLDocument objects if the XMLDocument product is installed. - Convert .stx files to StructuredDocument objects if the StructuredDocument product is installed. In 0.1.7 I'm adding fully-customizable mapping of file extensions to content-types, Zope object classes, and icons in the directory browse view. Hopefully that should be out pretty soon as well. --jfarr

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load_site v1.3, with a wxPython-based GUI interface
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

load_site is a utility for uploading files to Zope using HTTP (Zpublisher Client now, xmlrpc in the future). load_site enhanced is my extension of the version included with Zope. Version 1.3, in addition to fixing a couple of small bugs, has a new wxPython-based GUI frontend. Now you can upload files to Zope using a GUI interface in either Win32 or Unix while still using all of load_site's features: 1. Automatically remove your page's header/footer and replace it with <dtml-var standard_html_header/footer> and set the title property for HTML files 2. Create index_html files that redirect to your index.html files 3. Basic cleaning up of MSWord generated HTML (curly quotes that turn into question marks) Load_site enhanced can be downloaded from: http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site -- Itamar S.T. itamars(a)ibm.net

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 15 Mar '00

15 Mar '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively (but I'm willing to share). Announcements * The latest versions of the Zope Content Managers Guide, Z SQL Method User's Guide and DTML Reference Guides is available in postscript(ps) format. With luck, the technical problems of the previous versions have been fixed. http://www.zope.org/Members/Pam/PSversion * Check out the new Zope Documentation Projects page that lists current Zope documentation projects and their status. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Projects/Projects * Martijn Faassen <faassen(a)vet.uu.nl> has established a Zope-XML mailing list. The intent is to discuss Zope's XML infrastructure. http://www.egroups.com/group/zope-xml/info.html New Products * Software Product: iTrack Issue Tracker Product, by "shalabh" iTrack allows a team of people to keep track of various issues about a project. Currently this is in development stage (Version 0.2.0) but usable, as long as you follow the instructions. http://www.zope.org/Members/shalabh/iTrack/ * Software Product: ZGDChart Product, by "teyc" ZGDChart uses gdchart to draw charts. This product comes with Windows binaries and source for non-Windows platforms. This initial development release is 0.3. http://www.zope.org/Members/teyc/ZGDChart * Software Product: DTMLTemplate, by "halazar" DTML Templates are documents that allow blocks of text to be named and made available to other documents. The basic building block of templates is the DTML block tag, which can also be used with other DTML document types. Templates export their blocks. Another new tag, the suppress tag, allows block definition without rendering. http://www.zope.org/Members/halazar/Products/DTMLTemplate Updates * Software Product: jcNTUserFolder, by Jephte CLAIN This product authenticates Zope users against an NT domain controller. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version, 0.0.3. Unfortunately, the upgrade is incompatible. You will lose any role settings. http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/jcNTUserFolder Zope.org items * How-To: The Debugger Is Your Friend, by Michel Pelletier This HowTo is an invaluable resource for those days where if I get one more mysterious traceback, just one more and I swear I'll crack. It explains how to step through Zope code line-by-line with the python debugger. http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/TheDebuggerIsYourFriend * How-To: How to test your products without (re)starting Zope, by "teyc" This HowTo describes testing Zope products within a python interpreter without starting the Zope server. This rather speeds up the code-test-curse-code cycle, because it allows you to quickly reload your Product with each change. http://www.zope.org/Members/teyc/howtoProductTesting -- Mike Pelletier.

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