Zope Corporation is proud to announce the second beta release of version 1.3 of its Content Management Framework (CMF). This release features: - A new calendar object, which manages the presentation of calendar events within the site template. - More customizability for filesystem-based skin methods. - Through-the-web customization of all dynamic, context-sensitive actions. - Improved tracking of content modification times (no longer tied to the underlying database modification time. Plus numerous bugfixes. The final release of version 1.3 should follow within two weeks. 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. Resources * The CMF "dogbowl site", http://cmf.zope.org. * The mailing list, zope-cmf@zope.org. - "List information / online signup", http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf. - "List archives", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf Installation Please see "Installing CMF", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3-beta2/INSTALL.txt Bug Reports Please report any problems to the "CMF Collector", http://collector.zope.org/CMF "README", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/README.txt "CHANGES", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/CHANGES.txt "Tarball", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/CMF-1.3-beta2.tar.gz "ZIP archive", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/CMF-1.3-beta2.zip -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@zope.com Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com