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 2 Zope 2.7.6 beta 2 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/2.7.6b2/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). This release also contains several fixes for running Zope on Windows. All Zope windows users are invited to test the improvements *now* and not to wait until the final release. TEST NOW and help that related bugs are fixed *FOR THE FINAL* release and *AFTER THE FINAL* release. For information on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.8: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager