The CMF developer community is hereby announcing the release of CMF version 2.1.0-alpha2. This second alpha release was cut to help release Plone 3.0-alpha. A lot of bug fixes and features have made it into the CMF since release 2.1.0-alpha, which has become somewhat obsolete as the basis for Plone 3.0-alpha. 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. The CMF provides the foundation for popular software packages such as Plone. It is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Where do I get it? For release files, change logs, installation instructions and more please visit http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-2.1.0-alpha2. Roadmap and release information can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap. The CMF mailing list can be reached at the zope-cmf@zope.org address, to sign up please visit http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope- cmf. Please file bug reports, feature requests or suggestions in the CMF bug collector at http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF . What has changed since the last release? New Features - WorkflowTool: Added the IConfigurableWorkflowTool interface. This change includes the new 'getDefaultChain' and 'listChainOverrides' methods and an improved 'setChainForPortalTypes' method. The import handler now supports the 'remove' attribute for removing overrides. (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/457) - CMFCore.CachingPolicyManager: Implemented the old OFS.Cache.CacheManager API. Now objects other than CMF content or CMF templates can have their caching headers set by the caching policy manager with the same fine-grained control. (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/408) - testing: Added test layers for setting up ZCML. - CMFDefault formlib: Added zope.formlib support. This includes some CMF specific base classes and an 'EmailLine' field. - browser views: Added some zope.formlib based forms. - CMFDefault utils: Added 'checkEmailAddress' function. - Added CMFCore.FSRestMethod: ReST equivalent of FSSTXMethod. - CMFCore.FSSTXMethod: Modernized, added tests, made customization possible (now renders via ZPT by default, using 'main_template'). - Portal: Added 'email_charset' property. - CMFDefault utils: Added 'makeEmail' function. - CMFDefault.Image and CMFDefault.File: Overridden index_html methods add Cache Policy Manager-awareness and thus bring these implementations in line with CMFCore.FSFile and CMFCore.FSImage (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/454) Bug Fixes - CMFCore.CachingPolicyManager: Prevent firing of caching policies for templates (DTML or ZPT) that are rendered in-line (without a separate request) while rendering the requested content item's view. (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/456) - CMFDefault RegistrationTool: Fixed too restrictive email checking. The new 'checkEmailAddress' function is now used. - Fixed test breakage induced by use of Z3 pagetemplates in Zope 2.10+. - CMFDefault skins: Fixed encoding issues in welcome and reminder emails. 'password_email' and 'registered_email' now encode their return value correctly, using 'email_charset' and the new 'makeEmail' function. Others - The CMF now depends on Zope 2.10.1