[Zope-CMF] CMF 1.1 Released

[Tres Seaver]

Digital Creations is pleased to announce the release of version
1.1 of its Content Management Framework (CMF).

>From the README:
 
  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.  As packaged, the
    CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site.  The CMF is
    intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the
    types of content used and the policies and services it
    provides.

  Resources

    - The CMF "dogbowl" site, http://cmf.zope.org.

    - The mailing list, zope-cmf@zope.org.
    
      o List information and online signup are available at:
        http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf.
        
      o Archives of the list are at:
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf.

  Download

    - Get the "tarball",
       http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.1/CMF-1.1.tar.gz

  Installation

    - Please see "Installing CMF",
       http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.1/INSTALL.txt

>From the Changelog:

 New features

  - Landed "skinned folder" module, which permits creation of
    "folderish" types with customized replacements for 'index_html'.

  - Added 'run_all_tests' script, to simplify running all unit
    tests for CMF-related products.

  - Factored out index and column lists, to ease customization
    (Tracker #289)

  - Modified 'DefaultDublinCoreImpl.setContributors' to use new
    tuplize functionality (the ability to pass in a different
    splitter function).  If a string is passed in to
    setContributors(), it gets split on semicolons.  This allows
    setting of contributor strings to be like

     "Doe, John E (john@doe.a.deer); The Mertz Family Foundation; PBS"

    If one so deeply and dearly desired.  (The above would turn
    into a three element tuple).

  - Made it possible to map "normal" Zope objects as content
    (Tracker #283):

    o Skin and tool code which used to query the object
      for its Type in order to then ask the types tool for a
      TypeInfo object now just asks the types tool for type
      TypeInfo object directly.
   
    o Modified the TypesTool interface to signal that passing an
      object to 'getTypeInfo' is acceptable, with the semantic
      that the tool will attempt to find a TypeInfo object based
      on the tool's type or metatype.

  - Expanded signature of Document.CookedBody to change the
    header levels Structured Text starts rendering at, and
    whether to preserve those changes.

 Bug fixes

  - Hardened DirectoryView against objects which raise exceptions
    during initial reads (typically due to permission problems);
    these objects now capture and log the exception, and create
    a BadFile object which allows browsing the traceback via the
    ZMI (Tracker #317).

  - Stopped polluting the browser with persistent skin cookie;
    clear it as well on logout (Tracker #304).

  - Cleaned up folder content filtering (Tracker #298, thanks
    to Chris Withers for the patch).

  - Implement new "List folder contents" permission (Tracker
    #320), to prevent non-privileged users from being able to
    browse 'folder_contents' (permission is by default mapped
    to 'Owner' and 'Manager').

    Note that this is really only a UI change:
    'PortalFolder.contentIds', 'PortalFolder.contentValues', and
    'PortalFolder.contentItems' are still public, to allow for
    reasonable "site map" views on folders.

  - Use saner type ID listing in 'search_form' (Tracker #324).

  - Rewired "POST target" skin methods, replacing filesystem-based
    DTML Methods with filesystem-based Python Scripts (from
    Tracker #301 -- thanks to Chris Withers).

  - Implemented *LARGE* patch to CMFDefault.DiscussionItem and
    CMFDefault.DiscussionTool, plus removal of
    CMFDefault.Discussions:  changed threading strategy to remove
    dependency on the path of the "host" content object.  Includes
    an ExternalMethod, CMFDefault/Extensions/update_discussion.py,
    which must be run to convert existing content which contains
    discussion.

  - Overrode DublinCore's isEffective in CMFCalendar.Event to
    always return true;  this change prevents blocking view of
    the event by standard_html_header.

  - Updated INSTALL.txt to note that:

     o Use with Zope 2.4.0a1 is *not* recommended.

     o CMFDecor requires Zope Page Templates (Tracker #291).

    and to describe upgrade process from CMF 1.0.

  - Fixed typo in 'Unauthorized' exception raised by
    'PortalContent._getDefaultView'.

  - Made all content types findable by catalog (Tracker #286).

  - Ensured that ContentTypeRegistry's "Test" tab doesn't puke if
    no MIMEtype is entered, or if one is entered which doesn't
    have a '/' in it (Tracker #292).

  - Suppressed overwrite of Subject when no 'Subject' or
    'Keywords' headers were present (Tracker #294).

  - Ensured that 'Type' is indexed in newly-created
    'portal_catalog'.

  - Fixed acquisition stripping in PortalContent.objectItems().

  - Modified CMFDefault.DublinCore.getMetadataHeaders() to join
    Subject by commas, instead of spaces.  Since we parse/split
    Subject on commas or semicolons now when a document is saved
    by FTP or WebDAV, we need to feed it out in the same format.

  - Fleshed out security declarations for 'portal_metadata' tool.

  - Corrected pathname of 'MemberDataTool.memberdataContents' to
    account for use of '_dtmldir' (thanks to Ricardo Newbery for
    the patch!).

  - Fixed buglet resulting from uninitialized local in
    'PortalContent.objectItems' (thanks to Seb Bacon for the
    patch).

  - Modified stock 'search_form' to query 'Type' rather than
    'meta_type'.

  - Removed debugging / "paranoia" print statements (thanks to
    Chris Withers for the patches).

In the best traditions of open-source and free software, I am
heading out of town tomorrow for a long vacation.  Enjoy!

Tres.
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Tres Seaver                                tseaver@digicool.com
Digital Creations     "Zope Dealers"       http://www.zope.org