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Plone 2.0 released
by Alexander Limi 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Plone 2.0: The Most Productive Content Management System The Plone Team announces the release of Plone 2.0, the next generation of its rapidly growing open source Content Management System. After an impressive launch, Plone continues to garner attention. Plone was the highest-voted open source project for the O'Reilly pavilion at COMDEX and was the only open source system invited to the Jupiter Content Management Conference. Widely deployed worldwide, Plone has been downloaded over 100,000 times, with many companies throughout the world offering consulting, customization, and support. "We chose Plone for many of our client projects because of its out-of-the-box ease-of-use and features," says Barry Reicherter, Vice President for Porter Novelli Interactive, a division of the international media communications firm. "We could customize it quickly for our clients' needs, while retaining the intuitive interface and accessibility. That's critical for our clients' success. We're looking forward to the improvements that Plone 2 offers, especially for larger organizations." Porter Novelli Interactive has delivered Plone solutions as part of its mission to deliver marketing-driven value to their clients, such as the recent launching of usepropane.com, a national site designed and managed entirely with Plone, and backed with a $25 million ad campaign. Plone 2.0 offers significant productivity gains for content managers and developers. It includes an intuitive interface and out-of-the-box features such as time-based content publishing and role-based authoring and publishing. Particularly compelling for many organizations is that Plone is available without licensing costs and offers a similarly stable, feature-rich CMS environment as competing commercial systems costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are dozens of new features and improvements in Plone 2.0, including: * A user interface that has been streamlined and improved. Testing has shown it to be both flexible and intuitive. It takes existing features such as sophisticated workflow, wizard-style forms and content editing and offers many improvements. * Sites deployed on the Plone 2.0 platform conform with government standards for website accessibility as the Plone interface is compliant with Section 508 and WAI-AAA standards. * The entire Plone interface is customizable using standards-compliant programming and graphics tools. * Add-on enhancements can now be installed, uninstalled, and examined with a one-click process. Trying out new additions is a snap. * For enterprise users, user/group management features allow sophisticated security configurations. User data can come from many external sources, including LDAP, ActiveDirectory, or relational databases. Workspaces allow intuitive group collaboration. "The Plone community continues to amaze everybody who chooses to be a part of it" said Alan Runyan, co-founder of Plone. "Many open source projects are only attractive to hard core software developers but the Plone project has attracted varied groups such as artists, musicians, usability specialists, and industry gurus. The Plone project management team is thrilled at the number of entities that offer training, full support, hosting, and consulting services These services provide a level of security and professionalism that allows Plone to fit the needs of organizations around the world." About Plone Plone is the leading Content Management System for the award-winning Zope application server. Supported by thousands of developers from around the world, it is one of the most sophisticated, popular, and easy to use Enterprise Content Management Systems on the market today. Plone provides a highly customizable, server-side architecture, and boasts a simple yet flexible API. Plone is highly scalable, stable, extensible, and has open standards as its core mentality. It runs on many operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X, and many varieties of Unix. It has wide international support, and is shipped with the interface available in over 30 languages. Users of Plone include Marriott, NASA, Lufthansa, Continental Airlines, the Governors of Texas and Hawaii, and many others. Information about Plone is available at http://plone.org. Press Contacts Paul Everitt Zope Europe Association paul(a)zope-europe.org -- __________________________________________________________________ Alexander Limi · Interaction Architect · Plone Solutions Development · Training · Support · http://www.plonesolutions.com __________________________________________________________________ Plone Co-Founder · http://plone.org · Connecting Content

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ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v1.7
by Robert Segall 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

This is to announce the release of Pound v1.7. Changes in this version: - Fixed bug in X-SSL-CIPHER description: the description no longer causes problems by breaking the request - Changed README to stx format for consistency - Addedd X-SSL-certificate with full client certificate contents - changed the old-style responses to support "streaming" mode. This should help especially OpenACS users: - Improved the response times on HTTP/0.9 (content without Content-length) - Improved response granularity on above - using unbuffered BIO functions now - Fixed problem with IE/SSL (SSL_set_shutdown) - Avoid error messages on premature EOF from client - Fixed HeadRemove code so all headers are checked without exception - Improved autoconf detection and fixed various compile-time problems - Moved from select() to poll() in order to avoid limitations on the number of descriptors The software is at version 1.7 (production quality). Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. What is Pound (from the Web page) - a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. - a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. - an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers. - an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. - an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy. - a fail-over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers. - a request redirector - it will pass client requests to separate groups of servers, based on required URL and the presence or absence of headers (pattern matching) Pound was specifically developed to serve as a front-end for multiple instances of Zope running on top of a common ZEO storage, but can be used with any other web server. A patch for the Python source of z2.py is available as part of the distribution to allow using Pound's SSL capabilities. Pound is currently in use in several medium to large volume sites and seems to be holding up quite well: largest reported site does about 5.5 million requests per day, peaking at over 450 requests per second. The speed is well superior to other, equivalent solutions, the configuration is much simpler and the necessary resources (CPU, RAM, disk) are much, much lower. Pound is distributed under the GPL. For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound Pound now has its own mailing-list - just send a message to pound-subscribe(a)apsis.ch in order to join. Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904

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CMFNewsletter 1.1 Released
by Nikolay Kim 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Version 1.1 * added support ZopeScheduler http://dev.legco.biz/products/ZopeScheduler * added new html template * add anonymous subsctiption auto activations * fix: removed message-id mail header * fix: Anonymous can't select format other than plain Forum http://dev.legco.biz/forums/products/cmfnewsletter/ Download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/collective/CMFNewsletter-1.1.tar.gz?down…

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[Press Release] eRacks Offers new custom Zope systems
by Matt McKenzie- ERacks 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

eRacks Offers a New Level of Zope Server Customization Laguna Beach, CA March 18, 2004 - eRacks Open Source Systems recently revealed a pioneering extension to its online computer system configurator. Customers are now able to select from a live list of software packages to be installed on their server at the time they place their order. eRacks offers a finely-tuned Zope web application server customized with selected Zope packages. These packages are chosen from an up-to-date set of components available on zope.org, the official website for the Zope community. eRacks management has indicated that this new level of customization is the beginning of an exciting, new trend that enables customers to completely customize their hardware and software preferences. Joseph Wolff, founder of eRacks explains, "Our goal at eRacks is to return control of technology to the enterprise, freeing our customers from critical dependence on third-party software vendors, and lowering both their cost and risk. This is why we promote open source software and customize our servers to such a fine degree. We want to provide that head-start advantage to our customers." In keeping with eRacks' philosophy, the eRacks/ZOPE application server is designed for high-performance and reliability. The server is customized to include any set of Zope packages, as well as other configurable components. The company's experience with Zope extends from its own web server to numerous enterprise-level implementations. Zope is a Python-based web application server. It features a transactional object database, stores both content and code, and enables fully dynamic web pages. Its tight security capabilities enable granular permission control as well as web-based authoring. Numerous Zope components vastly extend the basic set of site building tools. These include connectors to relational databases and other external data sources, issue tracking, and e-commerce among others. The eRacks/ZOPE server is competitively priced and is available at www.eRacks.com. To help clients establish new Zope-based applications, eRacks also offers professional consulting services. For detailed information, please visit the company website. About eRacks Open Source Systems eRacks Open Source Systems is a leading provider of open source solutions for the enterprise. The company offers rackmount computer servers, desktops, and laptops and provides a wide array of services including open source enterprise migration, security, and network architecture design. More information on eRacks' products and services can be found at www.eRacks.com. For more information contact: Tarek H. Elabbadi Director of Marketing & Sales eRacks Open Source Systems info(a)eRacks.com phone: +949 376 9220 http://www.eracks.com

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PropertyTools 2.0 released
by Maik Jablonski 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hi, yesterday I've released PropertyTools - the successor of PropertyObject/-folder. What the hell are PropertyTools good for? If you want to "prototype" object-oriented database-applications with Zope, PropertyTools will provide you with handy data-storages. If you get the idea behind PropertyTools (and the object-factory-tool AbracadabraObject), you can create simple database-applications based on the ZMI within 5 minutes (of course you can create complex applications with PropertyTools too, I've done some complex apps like univerisity-course-management-systems with lots of relations etc. based on PropertyTools in the last months which run nicely in production). If you spend just some additional minutes, you'll be done with a customized webapplication within 2 hours...:) Think of PropertyTools-Objects as lockable & sortable & workflowable ZMI-propertysheets which can be synchronized via a virtual class-attribute (object_type). Additionaly you can define different templates for rendering each virtual PropertyTools-class. Creating a simple faq-database or a contact-database with PropertyTools can be done in minutes, not hours... I'll promise! What's changed to 1.x? - Added PropertyFile besides PropertyObject & PropertyFolder - Added simple demo.zexp (a faq-database) to demonstrate how to use PropertyTools. - Updated property-sheets to Zope2.7-templates. - Refactored all code for managing the propertysheets into a new Mixin-Class PropertyTools. - Added additional Top/Buttom-Buttons for ordering properties. Thanks to Steve McMahon for his patches! - Fixed a bug in manage_changeProperties. Keyword-Arguments were broken for empty REQUESTs. Thanks to Abel Deuring! - Removed support for published-attribute. Added support for simple workflows based on PythonScripts. - Removed PropertyObjectDescription. Where can I download PropertyTools? http://mjablonski.zope.de/PropertyTools (and you should also download) http://mjablonski.zope.de/AbracadabraObject Keep zoped, Cheers, Maik

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AJPServer 0.1 released
by Ames Andreas (MPA/DF) 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Hi all, AJPServer 0.1 is released. Please look at http://www.zope.org/Members/andreasames/AJPServer for further information and the tarball. This is an 'alpha' quality release. Your testing is much appreciated. What is it? =========== AJP is a protocol for forwarding HTTP requests from web servers like Apache or IIS to web application servers like Tomcat or Zope. AJPServer is primarily meant to be used from within Zope's ZServer but can possibly also be used stand-alone. The protocol connects Tomcat with web servers since quite a long time and should therefore be reasonably mature. Why yet another technology to connect Zope with web servers? ============================================================ AJP has some nice features I haven't found elsewhere: 1) It's rather efficient: plain TCP transport, connection recycling, binary protocol etc. 2) It's independent of the web server: the Zope configuration and the underlying mechanism remains the same regardless of whether it is driven by Apache or IIS (there is also support for Netscape's and Lotus' web servers). 3) Some neat add-on features are also available: nice web server integration, ad hoc load balancing features etc. For further information please look at the README file and the API docs distributed with AJPServer. cheers, andreas

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TextIndexNG 2.06 released
by Andreas Jung 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 2.06. This version fixes a problem with disappearing documents that have been reindexed. It also makes the usage of external converters more safe (see release notes). There is also a new official hook for thrid-party products to expose indexable content for TextIndexNG2. Changes since 2.05 - removed MD5 cache introduced in V 2.03 because of misc reindexing problems - Converters: - TextIndexNG now checks at startup of Zope if the configured external converters are available (using the 'which' command). A converter will not be registered if this check fails - The converter API introduces a new convert2() method to provide a better control over mimetypes and encodings - Indexing: Objects can define a hook 'txng_get(attr_list)' to return a tuple '(source, mimetype, encoding)' for better control over the data to be indexed. 'attr_list' is the list of attribute names configure for this particular index Download it from http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG -aj Andreas Jung -------------------------------- www.zopyx.com Software-Entwicklung und Consulting Andreas Jung

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PyCon BOF schedule
by Jeremy Hylton 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PyConBofs Sign up for PyCon Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, which will be held on March 24 and 25, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, from 8 to 11 pm. A BOF is an informal session, organized by attendees, to discuss a topic of interest. They are held in the evening so that they don't conflict with talks. Jeremy Hylton

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ZFSPath 1.0 released
by Daniel W. Adair 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

ZFSPath - a window to the local file system Asterisk New Zealand are pleased to announce their first official contribution to the Zope community: ZFSPath 1.0. ZFSPath provides powerful and convenient functions to explore and make changes to the local file system. It brings the excellent convenience class "path" (http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path) by Jason Orendorff to Zope. For more information and download please see http://zope.org/Members/asterisk/ZFSPath/ Thank you for your attention, -- Danny W. Adair Software Developer Asterisk Ltd New Zealand Talk: +64 9 302 1777 Fax: +64 9 302 1772 Write: dannya(a)asterisk.co.nz Browse: www.asterisk.co.nz Visit: Level Four, Newcall Tower, 44 Khyber Pass Rd, Auckland Post: PO Box 108018, Symonds St, Auckland Asterisk Linux solutions - simple, brilliant, secure.

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MailBoxer 3.2 released
by Maik Jablonski 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

Hi, today I've released MailBoxer 3.2 - the mailinglist- / newsletter- / mailarchive-framework for Zope. What is a MailBoxer? MailBoxer is a lightweight ZOPE-Product to run mailinglists, newsletters and mailarchives. Its main idea is to give you an extensible framework for building mailinglist-based applications with the power of ZOPE. Out of the box it provides a full featured mailinglist/newsletter/mailarchiving-framework. MailBoxer runs all mailinglists of the "German Zope User Group" (http://www.dzug.org) If you want to see zope(a)zope.org mirrorerd by MailBoxer, please visit http://www.dzug.org/mailinglisten/zope-org-zope/ Changes - added authentication-handler to smtp2zope.py; protected all public-manage-methods with 'View'-permission. Should be useful if you want a more secured MailBoxer. You can now call the smtp2zope.py with an additional authorization (http://user:password@localhost:8080/MailBoxer/manage_mailboxer) or set the authorization directly in smtp2zope.py. Thanks to Steve McMahon for ideas and patches!!! - added additional wrappers called setMailBoxerMailProperty (wraps manage_addProperty) and catalogMailBoxerMail (wraps catalob_object) for making it easier to derive own subclassed MailBoxers. Thanks to Alexandre Fernandez from Nuxeo for pointing me to this! - fixed bug: bounce-detection for mails with an empty returnpath was broken. Thanks to Nate Aune for helping me tracking this down!!! - fixed minor bug in mail_(un)subscribe. Mail-From-Header wasn't mime decoded in mail-body. - fixed minor bug: no Content-type was set for manage_moderateMail. Download http://mjablonski.zope.de/MailBoxer Cheers, Maik Jablonski

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