Zope 2.6.0 Released Zope 2.6.0 represents the first Zope release formed with a large number of community contributions. You may download Zope 2.6.0 from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/ Users of the Zope source release should note that Python 2.1.3 is now the required platform. Python 2.1.3 includes a fix to an issue that could cause crashes in Zope. Particular features of interest in Zope 2.6.0: - Gzip content compression when serving pages - ZCTextIndex plug-in index - Signal Handling and Log Rotation - Addition of a new default view setting ability - New profiling abilities - Improved daemon mode - Enhanced text indexing - Improved object cache control - Automatic browser ID string embedding in URLs - Automatic quoting of form variables implicitly retrieved from REQUEST but not REQUEST.form - Major improvments to BTree and Catalog code - i18n translation support for TAL - Bugfixes for Colletor issues 61, 72, 79, 117, 144, 151, 160, 178, 186, 196, 238, 271, 272, 292, 304, 358, 372, 402, 411, 412, 421, 433, 437, 446, 448, 454, 458, 465, 478, 510, 512, 516, 517, 525, 528, 538, 539, 541, 547, 550, 573, 574, 580, 581, 583, 586, 603, 605, 612 - Linux binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against glibc-2.1.3 - Solaris binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against Solaris 8 For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html -- Matt Kromer Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/