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Zope 2.8.3 released
by Andreas Jung 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.3. You can download Zope 2.8.2 from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.3/ This version obsoletes Zope 2.8.2 which shipped with an older Docutils version as expected. For security reasons you should update to Zope 2.8.3. Some new features of Zope 2.8: - ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites. - Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection. - Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see http://codespeak.net/z3/five/) For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.3/CHANGES.txt See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView 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 Please also keep in mind that Zope 2.8.2 requires Python 2.3.5. Zope 2.8.2 is not certified for any Python 2.4.x versions. So using Python 2.4 is neither recommended nor supported and any related questions or problems are likely to be ignored until 2.4 is an officially supported Python version for Zope. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.9
by M.-A. Lemburg 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT EGENIX.COM mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 1.0.9 Usable with Zope and the Plone CMS. Available for Zope 2.3 through 2.8 on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture. The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD. This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority, establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone CMS. ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS The new version includes a number of enhancements which make the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter even more robust and reliable. The adapter includes a new, more careful connection pool management and options to adjust the result set size in a more flexible way. We are very pleased to also include a build for Mac OS X with this release. This will make connecting your Zope or Plone installation on Mac OS X to local or remote databases a breeze. Starting with this release, we will now ship binaries for both Unicode build variants of Zope: UCS2 and UCS4. Most recent Linux distributions come pre-built with the UCS4 variant, e.g. SuSE 9 and 10, RedHat 9. ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING If you have already bought mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.x licenses, you can use these license for the 1.0.9 version as well. There is no need to buy new licenses. The same is true for evaluation license users. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://zope.egenix.com/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Thank you, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 17 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! ::::

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Nidelven IT launches new hosting products
by Morten W. Petersen 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Nidelven IT, long time supporter of Zope and Plone have launched 4 new hosting products, and are now taking the step up towards supporting customers with bigger requirements, as well as enabling the smallest to have a robust website of their own. The four packages we're launching are * Mini For the smallest, with Plone, ZWiki and Issue Dealer available as well as the standard Zope products * Managed Zope server I For webmasters/hosting providers/large websites * Managed Zope server II For webmasters/hosting providers/large websites * Managed Zope server III For webmasters/hosting providers/huge websites With these four new packages, we're supporting and enabling customers from the very smallest, to some of the largest and we're still able to provide customers with custom and larger solutions as well. All our hosting services are run on RAID, they are backed up regularly, and we give our customers great support, something we can prove by never having lost a customer due to poor service. To find out more, go to our Zope/Plone hosting page: http://www.nidelven-it.no/custom?path=plone/hjemmeside/hosting

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MailTemplates 1.1.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

These allow you to use the full power of the the python email package along with Zope's Page Template technology to easily build and send fully standards compliant emails. This release adds the ability to create attachments using string data. It also fixes a long list of bugs uncovered by public testing and has been tested for compatability with Zope 2.7, Zope 2.8, CMF 1.4 and CMF 1.5. For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/mailtemplates cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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ZODB 3.4.2 final released
by Tim Peters 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.4.2 final. This corresponds to the ZODB in Zope 2.8.2 final. 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 (2.4.2 is recommended). ZODB 3.4.2 mostly contains obscure error-case bugfixes relative to 3.4.1. One important fix: most applications that do subtransaction commits do so to reduce RAM consumed by the ZODB memory ("pickle") cache. When subtransactions were reimplemented on top of savepoints, this cache reduction no longer occurred. That was an oversight, and is repaired in 3.4.2. See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4/NEWS.html The current status of all active ZODB lines can be seen here: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus

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ZODB 3.2.10 final released
by Tim Peters 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.10 final. This corresponds to the ZODB in Zope 2.7.8 final. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.2 is recommended). ZODB 3.2.10 contains a few bugfixes relative to 3.2.9, all in obscure error cases. The most serious is a workaround for what appears to be a rare race bug in Microsoft's implementation of socket binding on Windows platforms. See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS The current status of all active ZODB lines can be seen here: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus

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CPSSharedCalendar 1.3.3 released
by Lennart Regebro 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

October 12, 2005 -- Nuxeo is happy to release CPSSharedCalendar 1.3.3 CPSSharedCalendar is an advanced, flexible calendaring component for Zope and CPS3. It allows CPS users to access personal calendars using a web interface. Events on the calendar can be shared between multiple users, as a user can invite others to an event. This event will then appear on the calendar of the invited users as well. Features of the CPSSharedCalendar include among others: * a web interface for managing calendars, * integration with iCalendar clients (Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, KOrganizer...) using the iCalendar protocol, * invitation workflow, * meeting support, * meeting helper that looks for free time, * etc. CPSSharedCalendar is built on a reusable core and is not just for CPS. 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: * Major speed increases for big installations. * Event coloring according to type. * Calendar "stacking": You can create calendars which display the events of several calendars as if they were one. * Migration from the older CPSCalendar. * Support for Zope 2.7 and 2.8, CMF 1.4 and 1.5, CPS 3.2 and 3.3. * Bugfixes, including finalizing the french translation. For more functional and technical information, see the CPSSharedCalendar web site: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/calendar_server CPSSharedCalendar can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CPSSharedCalendar-bundle-1.3.3.tgz Look at the README.txt file in the package for more information on how to install CPSSharedCalendar. If you'd like to help with CPSSharedCalendar development or porting to other platforms, 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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Zope 2.7.8 released
by Andreas Jung 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.8 final. Zope 2.7.8 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.8 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.8/CHANGES.txt For information on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7.8: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager

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Zope 2.8.2 released
by Andreas Jung 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.2. You can download Zope 2.8.2 from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.2/ Some new features of Zope 2.8: - ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites. - Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection. - Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see http://codespeak.net/z3/five/) For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.2/CHANGES.txt See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView 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 Please also keep in mind that Zope 2.8.2 requires Python 2.3.5. Zope 2.8.2 is not certified for any Python 2.4.x versions. So using Python 2.4 is neither recommended nor supported and any related questions or problems are likely to be ignored until 2.4 is an officially supported Python version for Zope. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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Zope Debugger 0.8.1 Released!
by Chris Withers 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

This release adds support for both Zope 2.7 and Zope 2.8. Zope Debugger is an enhanced version of pdb for use with Zope. 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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