[Zope-dev] Announcing ZPatterns 0.4.3b1 and LoginManager 0.8.8b1

[Phillip J. Eby]

They're here!

http://www.zope.org/Members/pje/ZPatterns/

http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/LoginManager/

Note that LoginManager now *includes* a current ZPatterns release, so if
you plan to use LoginManager, it's all you need to download.

Also, the ZPatterns "PlugIns" product is now available as a seperate
release at:

http://www.zope.org/Members/pje/PlugIns/

But it is also bundled into the ZPatterns and LoginManager releases, so you
don't need to download it unless you intend to use the PlugIns package as a
standalone.

Some feature highlights:

ZPatterns 0.4.3b1:
* SkinScript methods with new features and docs
* ClassExtenders
* Full transaction/sub-transaction support
* Specialist and Rack can be subclassed as ZClasses (thanks to the new
PlugIns)
* Cleaner help files in Zope help system

PlugIns 0.4.3b1:
* Basic support for extending PlugIns and PlugInContainers with ZClasses

LoginManager 0.8.8b1:
* UserSource is now subclassable as a ZClass (thanks to the new PlugIns)
* Extended "access" file support (see dev.zope.org proposal)
* Hot-fix patches to support computed local roles
* Support for secure cookies
* Ownership fixes for 2.2.x

Please note that Ty and I have not yet gotten around to back-porting the
contributed support for Zope's built-in local roles interface.  We are
thinking instead about adding a hotfix to LM to fix what we consider to be
a broken interface in Zope, actually.