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by Godefroid Chapelle 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi all, Jean-François finalized moving mailman setup out of our broken machine to a new machine. I want to thank him a lot. Tell us if everything is working you. -- Godefroid Chapelle (aka __gotcha) http://bubblenet.be

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter 2.1.2
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 07 May '13

07 May '13

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter Version 2.1.2 for Zope and the Plone CMS Available for Plone 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2, Zope 2.12 and 2.13, on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.2-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone CMS 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, FreeBSD and other platforms. 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. Product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We are pleased to announce the new version 2.1.2 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product. Compatibility Enhancements -------------------------- * Added a work-around for a regression in Python 2.7.4 that results in a segfault when exiting Zope/Plone after loading the mxODBC Zope DA. The regression will be fixed in Python 2.7.5, but we don't want to expose our users to segfaults, so added a work-around. See http://bugs.python.org/issue17703 for the bug ticket. * Upgraded the underlying mxODBC library to version 3.2.3. Please see the mxODBC 3.2.3 release announcement for additional details: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.2.3-GA.html Driver Compatibility -------------------- * Please also see the mxODBC Zope DA 2.1.1 announcement for an important new feature which allows to dramatically increase the fetch performance when working with MS SQL Server and IBM DB2 databases. http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.1-GA.html For the full set of changes please check the change log: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/changelog.html ________________________________________________________________________ FEATURES Version 2.1.0 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product was released on 2012-09-18. Please see the announcement for highlights of the 2.1 release: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.0-GA.html For the full set of features mxODBC Zope DA has to offer, please see: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Features ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Zope/Plone DA release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver support. We have taken special care not to introduce backwards incompatible changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible. As always, patch level upgrades (e.g. from 2.1.0 to 2.1.2) are free of charge. The licenses you have purchased for 2.1 will continue to work with this new release. For major and minor upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.1 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.1. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted. Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon. If you want to try the new release before purchase, you can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of evaluation licenses that you need. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ About Python (http://www.python.org/) Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms. By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for today's IT challenges. About eGenix (http://www.egenix.com/) eGenix is a software project, consulting and product company focusing on expert project services and professional quality products for companies, Python users and developers. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 07 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-05-06: Released mxODBC 3.2.3 ... http://egenix.com/go45 2013-04-30: Released eGenix PyRun 1.2.0 ... http://egenix.com/go44 ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter 2.1.1
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter Version 2.1.1 for Zope and the Plone CMS Available for Plone 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2, Zope 2.12 and 2.13, on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.1-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone CMS 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, FreeBSD and other platforms. 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. Product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We are pleased to announce the new version 2.1.1 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product. Feature Enhancements -------------------- * Added a new connection property "ODBC cursor type" which allows easily adjusting the ODBC cursor type to be used for mxODBC Zope DA connection objects. This new property allows enhancing the performance of the adapter significantly, when using it with MS SQL Server or IBM DB2 database backends. Please see below for details. Driver Compatibility -------------------- * MS SQL Server performance can now be much enhanced, and increased to levels beyond that of previous mxODBC Zope DA releases, by adjusting the connection ODBC cursor type to "Forward only cursors". The performance increase compared to mxODBC Zope DA 2.1.0 is enormous: from 2-3x faster executes/fetches for average queries, up to 300x faster for simple cases. In mxODBC Zope DA 2.2, we will switch to using "Forward only cursors" per default for all database backends. * IBM DB2 can benefit from the same performance enhancements using "Forward only cursors". The effect is a lot smaller, but still noticeable: up to 2x faster executes/fetches with forward-only cursors, compared to mxODBC Zope DA 2.1.0. * Added documentation to explain the different cursor types, compatibility with different database backends and effects on performance. Fixes ----- * Fixed the installation instructions to be more generic and easily adaptable to Plone and Zope installations on both Windows and Unix platforms. For the full set of changes please check the change log: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/changelog.html ________________________________________________________________________ FEATURES Version 2.1.0 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product was released on 2012-09-18. Please see the full announcement for highlights of the 2.1 release: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.0-GA.html For the full set of features mxODBC has to offer, please see: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Features ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Zope/Plone DA release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver support. We have taken special care not to introduce backwards incompatible changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible. As always, patch level upgrades (e.g. from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1) are free of charge. The licenses you have purchased for 2.1 will continue to work with this new release. For major and minor upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.1 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.1. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted. Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon. If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ About Python (http://www.python.org/) Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms. By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for today's IT challenges. About eGenix (http://www.egenix.com/) eGenix is a software project, consulting and product company focusing on expert project services and professional quality products for companies, Python users and developers. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 02 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-03-25: Released mxODBC 3.2.2 ... http://egenix.com/go40 2013-04-10: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 8 days to go ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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REMINDER: 2013 Zope Foundation General Meeting
by Tres Seaver 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2013 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Friday, 22 March 2013, at 15:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation As well as annual reports, the main agenda item will be the vote to seat the newly-elected board.: - - Godefroid Chapelle - - Jim Fulton - - Rob Page - - Stephan Richter - - Jeff Rush - - Tres Seaver - - Aroldo Souza-Leite I would ask foundation members to make every effort to be present at the meeting, which should be relatively short. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver(a)palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFEkr4ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7NcQCdGVJvfT0wT74S6nXgF2PA6WYJ YPMAoJ/Y2N78sOoDBa1wfeQX5mYr6Zik =FARn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Announcement: 2013 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
by Tres Seaver 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (please forgive the crosspost: we need this announcement to be read as widely as possible). The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2013 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Friday, 22 March 2013, at 15:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. Summary - ------- - - Nominations open via the foundation(a)zope.org mailing list until Friday, 2013-02-15. - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, 2013-02-20 through Friday, 2013-03-08. - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software. - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Friday, 2013-03-22. Procedure for Elections - ----------------------- The procedure for the elections is as follows: - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the board's announcment on the foundation(a)zope.org maling list. Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2013-02-15, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new mailman list, 'zf-elections-2013', and approve all ZF members to post to the list. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list archives will be restricted to the "tellers" appointed by the board. - - On Wednesday, 2013-02-20, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the 'zf-elections-2013' list. - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain open until Friday, 2013-03-08, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as "tellers." The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be held on Tuesday, 2013-03-20, 15:00 UTC. - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking them for their willingness to serve. - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the announcement of the election results, including a vote to "seat" the board. An online version of this announcement is available at: http://foundation.zope.org/news/2013_election_and_general_meeting References - ---------- [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver(a)palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEL6ysACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5dhACgxeeRpgLSMKjLuW5NLfwTM1Tz A7sAnAphPm/PKiNbJsvRSzpoKB9W66dy =U7sv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter 2.1.0
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter Version 2.1.0 for Zope and the Plone CMS Available for Plone 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2, Zope 2.12 and 2.13, on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.0-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone CMS 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, FreeBSD and other platforms. 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. Product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We are pleased to announce a new version 2.1.0 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product. Updated Plone Support --------------------- In this new release, we have focused on a simplified zc.buildout deployment as used in Plone 4.x and the latest Zope 2.13 releases. The mxODBC Zope DA is now again compatible with all recent Plone versions. Please see the mxODBC Zope DA documentation for details on how to install the product for use in Plone. For the full list of features, please see the mxODBC Zope DA feature list: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Features Enhanced ODBC Driver Support ---------------------------- We have also updated the integrated mxODBC Python Extension to the latest 3.2 release, which includes a number of important new features and ODBC driver compatibility enhancements: * Added support for the DataDirect ODBC manager on Linux which is used by several data warehouse database backends * Added MS SQL Server ODBC Driver 1.0 for Linux support * Added Teradata support * Added Netezza support * Switched to unixODBC 2.3.1+ API for better 64-bit support on Linux * Enhanced Oracle Instance Client support * Enhanced IBM DB2 driver support * Enhanced Sybase ASE driver support * Enhanced FreeTDS ODBC driver support * Enhanced PostgreSQL driver support * Enhanced generic support for many other ODBC compatible databases Please see the mxODBC 3.2 release announcement for a complete set of changes available in the underlying mxODBC 3.2 package used in mxODBC Zope/Plone DA 2.1: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.2.0-GA.html Lowered Overall Licensing Costs ------------------------------- Starting with version 2.1, we have also simplified our license terms to clarify the situation on multi-core and virtual machines. In most cases, you no longer need to purchase more than one license per Zope/Plone instance, if you are running on a multi-core processor or virtual machine, scaling down the overall license costs significantly compared to earlier mxODBC Zope DA releases. Minor other changes ------------------- * Error screens have been changed to plain text after the recent hot fix which disabled showing HTML in error messages * The "Security" tab now also works in Zope 2.13 ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Zope/Plone DA release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver support. We have taken special care not to introduce backwards incompatible changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible. For upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.1 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.1. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted. Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon. If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ 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, Sep 18 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-10-29: PyCon DE 2012, Leipzig, Germany ... 41 days to go 2012-10-23: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 35 days to go 2012-08-28: Released mxODBC 3.2.0 ... http://egenix.com/go31 2012-08-20: Released mxODBC.Connect 2.0.0 ... http://egenix.com/go30 eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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Heads up: backward-incompatible zdaemon, 3.0 release coming (probably today)
by Jim Fulton 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

I'm dropping some untested, largely undocumented, and likely unused features of zdaemon in the 3.0.0 release. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://www.dublinstore.com/

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Vulnerability in zdaemon 2.0.5 and earlier
by Jim Fulton 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

zdaemon is a Unix (Unix, Linux, Mac OS X) Python program that wraps commands to make them behave as proper daemons. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zdaemon. zdaemon can be configured to start as root and then switch to a less privileged user. In version 2.0.5 and earlier, zdaemon didn't update supplementary groups. Processes started as root retain root's supplementary groups, likely providing more privileges than intended. This is fixed by zdaemon 2.0.6. It's recommended that people using zdaemon 2.0.5 and earlier upgrade to 2.0.6 at their earliest convenience. -- Jim Fulton

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 2.0.2
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 2.0.2 for Zope and the Plone CMS Available for Zope 2.10 and later on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.0.2-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ 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, FreeBSD and other platforms. 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. Product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We are pleased to announce a new version 2.0.2 of our mxODBC Zope DA product. With the patch level 2.0.2 release we have updated the integrated mxODBC Python Extension to the latest 3.1.1 release, which includes a number of important workarounds for these ODBC drivers: * Oracle 10gR1 and 10gR2 * Oracle 11gR1 and 11gR2 * Teradata 13 * Netezza Due to popular demand, we have also added instructions on how to install mxODBC Zope DA 2.0 with Plone 4.1 and Zope 2.13 - even though this combination is not officially supported by the mxODBC Zope DA 2.0 series: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Installation ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Licenses purchased for version 2.0.x of the mxODBC Zope DA will continue to work with the 2.0.2 patch level release. Licenses purchased for version 1.0.x of the mxODBC Zope DA will not work with version 2.0. More information about available licenses is available on the product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Licensing Compared to the popular mxODBC Zope DA 1.0, version 2.0 offers these enhancements: * Includes mxODBC 3.1 with updated support for many current ODBC drivers, giving you more portability and features for a wider range of database backends. * Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support. * Plone 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 support. Plone 4.1 works as well. * Zope 2.10, 2.11, 2.12 support. Zope 2.13 works as well. * Python 2.4 - 2.6 support. * Zero maintenance support to automatically reconnect the Zope connection after a network or database problem. * More flexible Unicode support with options to work with pure Unicode, plain strings or mixed setups - even for databases that don't support Unicode * Automatic and transparent text encoding and decoding * More flexible date/time support including options to work with Python datetime objects, mxDateTime, strings or tuples * New decimal support to have the Zope DA return decimal column values using Python's decimal objects. * Fully eggified to simplify easy_install and zc.buildout based installation ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ 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, Feb 09 2012) >>> 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 our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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Announcement: 2012 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
by Tres Seaver 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (Apologies in advance for the cross-post: we need this to reach the whole Zope community). The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2012 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Friday, 16 March 2012, at 15:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. Summary - ------- - - Nominations open via the foundation(a)zope.org mailing list until Friday, 2012-02-10. - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, 2012-02-15 through Friday, 2012-03-02. - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software. - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Friday, 2012-03-16. Procedure for Elections - ----------------------- The procedure for the elections is as follows: - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the board's announcment on the foundation(a)zope.org maling list. Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2012-02-10, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new mailman list, 'zf-elections-2012', and approve all ZF members to post to the list. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list archives will be restricted to the "tellers" appointed by the board. - - On Wednesday, 2012-02-15, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the 'zf-elections-2012' list. - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain open until Friday, 2012-03-02, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as "tellers." The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be held on Tuesday, 2012-03-13, 15:00 UTC. - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking them for their willingness to serve. - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the announcement of the election results, including a vote to "seat" the board. An online version of this announcement is available at: http://foundation.zope.org/news/2012_election_and_general_meeting References - ---------- [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver(a)palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8psnAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6l+ACglK1iWt6eq0z52Zojiq9n0id2 weoAnRs57WAoLtDLqyaBM/YdzkEMQ5Bv =1oDS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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