Oslo, Norway - The Plone Team today released Plone 1.0.2, a maintenance release for Plone 1.0. Plone is an open source information management system available in 25 languages, and has a large and active community supporting it. Plone marries design and usability to Zope, the award-winning application server, which provides a powerful open source architecture for rich content and rich content services. The combination provides administrative workflow, multimedia, metadata, integrated search, and the industry's first standards-compliant templating system. Other open-source add-ons provide Plone with integration of documents written in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice, PDF generation, versioning and more. This is planned to be the last release in the 1.0.x series, and the last Plone version to require CMF 1.3.1. Work is progressing nicely on Plone 1.1 (see separate status update released today on the plone.org website), and the team expects to make an alpha release available shortly. Release 1.0.2 is mostly bug fixes and nice-to-have additions, and is a recommended upgrade for people running the 1.0 releases. It also has updated translations, Plone now ships with 25 languages, now also including Arabic. No Hebrew translation of Plone yet, if you want to help out with adding your language to Plone, please check out the translation overview to get started. Most languages have been updated and polished since the 1.0.1 release. You can download the Windows Installer and the source tarball from our download pages - Mac OS X and the different Linux packages will follow as soon as the maintainers have time to update them. Hope you enjoy this minor update while you're waiting for Plone 1.1. :) -- The Plone Team AVAILABILITY Plone is available for a number of platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Notable users of Plone include NASA, Government of Hawaii, Lufthansa, and University College London. Plone can be downloaded from the website - http://plone.org/download ABOUT PLONE Plone is an open source system for managing information and administering content. Plone is backed by Plone International, a non-profit organization. The organization holds the copyright, and Plone is available under a dual licencing scheme, GPL and a commercial license. Plone was founded in 1999 by Alan Runyan (USA), Alexander Limi (Norway) and Vidar Andersen (Norway), and has core developers in 14 different countries. Plone has already passed 25 000 downloads. For more information and download options, see http://plone.org. ABOUT ZOPE Zope is a leading open source application server, specializing in content management, portals, and custom applications. Since Zope Corporation introduced Zope as an open source product in 1998, it has become the platform of choice for content publishers, managers, and application developers. As an open source product, Zope comes with complete source code and no software licensing fees. Zope is managed by the global Zope community, with thousands of developers and companies participating worldwide. More information, including the Zope source code, is available at http://www.zope.org. PRESS CONTACT Paul Everitt, Director of Zope Europe Association: paul@zope-europe.org