I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.1.0 beta 3(PCNG) PCNG is a bugtracking system for Plone. It is based on the concepts and ideas of CMFCollector and CMFCollectorNG but it is a complete re-write. PCNG is a very generic and open framework (you can configure nearly everything TTW). This release **REQUIRES Archetypes AT 1.3**. **Older Archetypes versions (including 1.2.1) WILL NOT WORK**. This major step was necessary because a lot Archetypes hacks in PCNG 1.0.0 were backported to Archetypes CVS/HEAD. This release also breaks compatibility with portal_forms. CMFFormController is now mandatory. There is a risk that this release might break an existing PCNG instance. So BACKUP YOUR DATA first. The goal for 1.1.0 final is to be compatible with exisitings installations so please let me know if there are any problems. Changes since 1.1.0 beta 2: - SchemaEditor raised an AttributeError if 'Create index' has not been selected for an Archetypes field - Removed german email formatter. The standard email formatter now supports all languages (available through the !PlacelessTranslationService) - using the Archetypes API to accessing or storing fields (no longer using the storage interface directly) - fixed several unicode related problems which caused problems with Plone sites using UTF8 as site encoding - pdfwriter ships with the Vera truetype font provided for free for open-source projects by Bitstream (www.bitstream.com). This is necessary because Reportlab is not directly capable to generate PDFs from UTF8 encoded text without hacks - PlacelessTranslationService: This version of !PloneCollectorNG **requires** an up-to-date version of PTS (best to get a CVS checkout from the OpenTal CVS, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/opental). Older version will raise an !AttributeError 'as_unicode' exception. - Unicode support rewritten: The transcript is now completely unicode-based. Email formatters and pdf writter use unicode for generating the corresponding output. IF YOU UPGRADE FROM FORMER VERSIONS OF PloneCollectorNG: - backup your Data.fs (!) first - for every PloneCollectorNG instance you **MUST** run the 'migrateUnicode' script on the instance to convert the collectors transcript to unicode by calling http://host:port/plone/somecollectorinstance/migrateUnicode Volunteers wanted: PloneCollectorNG is fully internationalized. If you want PCNG to support your language that translate the catalog file (i18n folder) to your language and submit it to me. Documentation Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG Download: http://sf.net/projects/collective Commercial support: http://www.zopyx.com