[Zope-Annce] Five 0.3 released!

[Martijn Faassen]

Five 0.3 released!
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The Five team is happy to release Five 0.3. Five is a Zope 2 product
that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2,
today.

The most important feature of this release is undoubtedly the ability
to use Zope 3 style add and edit forms. This is thanks to hard work by
Lennart Regebro from Nuxeo. In addition, Lennart contributed the
ability to use Zope 3 menus with Five. We've also worked on an
improved compatibility with Zope 2 page templates, so it is more easy
to reuse Zope 2-level macros with Five now. Dieter Maurer contributed
essential code to accomplish this. Consult the CHANGES for more details:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/CHANGES.html

Five right now allows you to use the following Zope 3 technologies in
Zope 2:

* Zope 3 interfaces

* adapters

* pages (views), including skins, layers and resources

* edit and add forms, based on schemas

* ZCML

We've tried to keep the Five experience as close to Zope 3 as
possible, so this means that what you learn while using Five should
also be applicable to Zope 3.

Five 0.3, even though it has an early version number, is being used in
production-grade projects, among others at Nuxeo and Infrae.

Infrae and Nuxeo have recently announced to cooperate on the
development of Zope 3 technologies:

http://www.zope.org/Members/infrae/news/infrae_nuxeo_cooperation

and this should bring further good news for Five in the future!

Five 0.3 can be downloaded here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/releases/Five-0.3.tgz

More information about Five can be found on our website, here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/

We hope you'll join our mailing list and let hear from yourself!

About the Zope 3 Base
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Five is part of the *Zope 3 Base* project, which aims to offer an
approachable area for developers of Zope 3 related software. More
about the Zope 3 base and its projects can be found here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/

More about Infrae and Nuxeo
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Infrae: http://www.infrae.com

Nuxeo: http://www.nuxeo.com