I'd like to propose/sponsor/promise-to-finish the following for inclusion in 2.9. If anyone has fears/doubts/problems with specific things, please let me know. I can also start a 2.9 project on the wiki with this info; if other folks have features they want, maybe they can post them here and we can put together a release plan. Definitely: - Chris Theune's blob support for ZODB (currently on the ctheune-blobsupport branch in ZODB's SVN repo) - Speed up large PUTs: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2005-April/024617.html - Implement RESPONSE.isClientConnected() to be able to tell if the client that made the request is still connected (allow long-running app code the possibility to abort processing if it notices the client is not connected). Maybe: - Include ClockServer: http://plope.com/software/ClockServer - ZODB "connection policies", which will allow you to associate a thread pool with a particular set of ZServer servers. This will allow sites which are having resource exhaustion problems (e.g. running out of threads, running out of database connections) to continue to be accessible via servers running on "special" ports for debugging and maintenance purposes. It should also allow site admins to associate a particular thread pool with connections from spiders and other cache-busters by associating particular user agents or other request parameters with a thread pool. Work towards this was done on the chrism-zserver-connection-policies-branch branch in CVS a while back. See http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/lib/python/ZServer/?only_with_tag=chrism-zserver-co... - C