Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.6 beta 1 Zope 2.7.6 beta 1 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.6b1 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.6.b1/CHANGES.txt This release also includes the security hotfix from 2005-04-05. It is highly recommended to upgrade existing installations or to install at least the hotfix and wait until 2.7.6 final will be out (in about two weeks). For information on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.8: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager