Zope Corporation is pleased to announce the first beta release of version 1.4 of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release contains a number of new features, as well as significant bug fixes. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Where do I get it? Download it from "cmf.zope.org", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.4beta1 Points of interest: - "Windows ZIP file", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.4beta1/CMF-1.4beta1.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.4beta1/CMF-1.4beta1.tar.gz . - "Release notes", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.4beta1/README.txt - "Change history", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.4beta1/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.4beta1/INSTALL.txt Where do I go to learn more? The "CMF mailing list":mailto:zope-cmf@zope.org has many participants who are active in supporting the CMF. ...to report bugs? The "CMF Collector", http://collector.zope.org/CMF is ths place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!) New Features in 1.4beta1 - ZPT skins have been internationalized (thanks to Gitte Wange and Yvo Schubbe for their hard work). - New FSFile skin objects for CSS, Javascript, Flash, etc. - Location of member folders is now customizable. - Type information objects now use TALES to specify actions, conditions. - Metadata for filesystem-based skin objects is now consolidated into a single '.metadata' file. - Selected skin can now be changed via scripting. - Improved integration of filesystem skin methods with standard cache managers. Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@zope.com Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com