I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.2 beta 1. This is a bugfix release for the ZODB 3.2 line, and will be the version of ZODB released with Zope 2.7.1b2. The ZODB 3.2.2b1 release requires Python 2.3.3 or later. The ZODB 3.2 line supports Zope 2 only; Zope 3 requires ZODB 3.3. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 The changes since ZODB 3.2.1 consist of bugfixes, to BTrees, parts of ZODB proper, and support tools. See the news file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS Important notes about Berkeley-based storages: Support for the experimental Berkeley-based storages has been dropped: they created more problems than the community has been able to fix, and nobody has done work on them for many months. Unfortunately, removing the code for BDBFullStorage and BDBMinimalStorage is also delicate, and it still exists in this release. We recommend not using it; the Berkeley code has already been removed from the ZODB 3.3 line. Note too that if you don't have "the right" version of Sleepycat Berkeley DB installed on your system, ZODB's test suite may fail-- or even segfault --as a result. This isn't an issue on Windows, because Python on Windows includes a suitable Sleepycat release (4.1.25). The problem appears most likely to occur on Linux systems with a bsddb from the later 4.2 line. While there's no resource to work on Berkeley problems, I'll at least try to disable the Berkeley tests for ZODB 3.2.2 final.