The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.0-beta of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release is intended for testing purposes only; we do not recommend deploying it to production servers. The final release of version 1.6.0 is planned for Sunday, February 26 2006. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. What's new in this release? The CMF 1.6 release series acts as an intermediary between the stable 1.5 series and the 2.0 feature release. It allows developers an easy upgrade path from 1.5 and the ability to take advantage of one of the most interesting features from the upcoming major feature release, GenericSetup. Where do I get it? Download it from http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.0-beta Points of interest include: - Windows ZIP file: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.0-beta/CMF-1.6.0-beta.zip - Unix tar/gzip archive: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.0-beta/CMF-1.6.0-beta.tar.gz - Release notes: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.0-beta/README.txt - Change history: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.0-beta/CHANGES.txt - Installation instructions: http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.0-beta/INSTALL.txt - CMF Release Roadmap: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap Where do I go to learn more? The CMF mailing list (zope-cmf@zope.org) has many participants who are active in supporting the CMF. ...to report bugs? The CMF Collector at http://zope.org/Collectors/CMF is the place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!) --------- Jens Vagelpohl jens@dataflake.org