[Zope] Zope 2.6.0 Released

[Dylan Reinhardt]

Anyone have thoughts on how production-ready this release is?

The LFS and daemon improvements are tempting... has anyone had much 
hands-on experience with this release that they care to share?

TIA,

Dylan

At 05:02 PM 10/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Zope 2.6.0 Released
>
>Zope 2.6.0 represents the first Zope release formed with a large
>number of community contributions. You may download Zope 2.6.0 from Zope.org:
>
>     http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/
>
>Users of the Zope source release should note that Python 2.1.3 is now the
>required platform. Python 2.1.3 includes a fix to an issue that could
>cause crashes in Zope.
>
>
>Particular features of interest in Zope 2.6.0:
>
>  - Gzip content compression when serving pages
>
>  - ZCTextIndex plug-in index
>
>  - Signal Handling and Log Rotation
>
>  - Addition of a new default view setting ability
>
>  - New profiling abilities
>
>  - Improved daemon mode
>
>  - Enhanced text indexing
>
>  - Improved object cache control
>
>  - Automatic browser ID string embedding in URLs
>
>  - Automatic quoting of form variables implicitly retrieved from REQUEST
>    but not REQUEST.form
>
>  - Major improvments to BTree and Catalog code
>
>  - i18n translation support for TAL
>
>  - Bugfixes for Colletor issues 61, 72, 79, 117, 144, 151, 160, 178, 186,
>    196, 238, 271, 272, 292, 304, 358, 372, 402, 411, 412, 421, 433, 437, 446,
>    448, 454, 458, 465, 478, 510, 512, 516, 517, 525, 528, 538, 539, 541, 547,
>    550, 573, 574, 580, 581, 583, 586, 603, 605, 612
>
>  - Linux binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled
>    compiled against glibc-2.1.3
>
>  - Solaris binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled
>    compiled against Solaris 8
>
>For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and
>HISTORY.txt files for the release:
>
>    - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/CHANGES.txt
>
>    - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/HISTORY.txt
>
>For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting
>the right distribution and installation instructions, please see:
>
>    http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html
>
>
>--
>Matt Kromer
>Zope Corporation  http://www.zope.com/
>
>
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