Silva 1.5 beta 1 released 19 january 2005 – Infrae has just released version 1.5 beta of the Silva content management system. This is a beta release for public testing. Please let us know about any problems! Silva 1.5 is the first Silva release that really starts using Zope 3 technology in the core, and is the first step in a longer evolution. It does not have a lot of externally visible feature changes, but focuses on making Silva work with Zope 2.8 and Five 1.2. Some of the changes: * Silva now uses Zope 3 interfaces. SilvaLayout (to be released) does not have to create Zope 3 marker interfaces anymore. * Silva now uses the Five/Zope 3 i18n architecture. PlacelessTranslationService is not in use anymore. * Use Zope 2.8 style ZODB transactions. * Some view code has been converted to be based on Zope 3 views. * Some adapters have been converted to be true Zope 3 adapters. See doc/developer_changes.txt in the Silva core package for more details about these changes. And of course a lot of bugs have been squashed: see HISTORY.txt in the package for complete details. What is Silva? Silva is an enterprise-class CMS for managing content for the web, print, and other media. Content is stored in clean and future-proof XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include a multi-version workflow system, XSLT rendering support, integral WYSIWYG editor (Kupu), content reuse in multiple publications, sophisticated access management, extensive import/export facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation. Silva is entirely open source. For more complete information, see the Silva Product Pages at http://www.infrae.com/products/silva. Download The package can be downloaded from http://www.infrae.com/download/Silva/. Links to developer mailing lists, the issue tracker, and info about CVS access can be found on the Silva Product pages. Contact FMI contact Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.