Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.0 beta 2 Zope 2.8.0 b2 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.0b2 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.0b2/CHANGES.txt For information on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.8: see doc/INSTALL.txt This release is a major step towards Zope 2.8.0 final (scheduled for the 3rd week of May 2005) and now includes for the first time the "Five" framework to make some Zope 3 technologies available within Zope 2. So you will be able to use Z3 technologies like interfaces, adapters, schemas and views within your Zope 2 installation and have hopefully the best from the Zope 2 and the Zope 3 world. Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager