Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.9.0 beta 1. You can download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.0b1/ Some new features of Zope 2.9: - ZODB 3.6 - Five 1.2 - integration for Zope 3 events for object creation and deletion - Zope 3 i18n integration for page templates For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.0b1/CHANGES.txt Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: "http://collector.zope.org/Zope":http://collector.zope.org/Zope For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx Support Python versions: Zope 2.9 requires Python 2.4.2 (Python 2.4.1 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Thanks to all being involved in this release. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)