Hello. On behalf of the Zope Toolkit release team and the Zope community, I'm happy to announce the 1.0a3 alpha release of the Zope Toolkit. You can read more about the release at http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/releases/overview-1.0a3.html. The first ZTK release supports all of Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. To use the ZTK release, you can use: [buildout] extends = http://download.zope.org/zopetoolkit/index/1.0a3/ztk-versions.cfg http://download.zope.org/zopetoolkit/index/1.0a3/zopeapp-versions.cfg This release focuses on cleaning up the ztk and zopeapp package lists by deprecating packages that are not used by any of the frameworks that use the ZTK. The release team is currently discussing the further roadmap to a 1.0 final release and has some open discussion points to what remains to be done. Specifically the release team would like to have the ZTK tests pass on the Windows platform, where currently there are still quite a number of failures. We'd like to encourage developers that use the Windows platform on a regular basis to help us fixing these tests. We post our meeting notes at http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/releaseteam/index.html. Feel free to start discussing with us on this mailing list. Kind regards, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman