Hot on the heels of the Zope X3 3.0.0b2 release, the Five team has released Five 0.1, the first public release of Five. Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to use Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2, today. Five allows you to use the following Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2: * Zope 3 interfaces * adapters * pages (views), including skins and layers * ZCML, including things like Zope 2 security declarations from ZCML It is possible to add Zope 3 style views to your own Zope 2 objects, or to existing ones, even normal Folders! For a more extensive list of Five features, see here: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/features.html Five 0.1 allows you to use Zope X3 3.0.0b2 technologies in a straight Zope 2.7 installation. See Five's INSTALL.txt for more information on how to set it up. Download Five 0.1: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-0.1.tgz More about the Five project: http://codespeak.net/z3/five Five is part of the Zope 3 Base project, which aims to offer an approachable area for the developers of Zope 3 related software. More about the Zope 3 base: http://codespeak.net/z3/ The Five Team