[Zope] Zope 2.6.2 Beta 2 Released

Matthew T. Kromer matt@zope.com
Fri, 30 May 2003 13:58:09 -0400


      ZOPE 2.6.2 Beta 2 Released

Zope 2.6.2b2 represents a development step in the next Zope release 
formed with a large number of community contributions. You may download 
Zope 2.6.2b2 from Zope.org:

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.2b2/

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.

Users who upgrade from source MUST RUN a make clean and make command to 
build the proper binaries correctly; distutils will skip compilation of 
the library modules needed for Zope and will cause errors if they are 
not up to date.

Particular features of interest in Zope 2.6.2b2:

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      Reductions in Conflict Errors with Sessions

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      Fixed memory leak with Page Templates

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      Python 2.2 compatibility fixes

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      Back ports of BTrees fixes

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      Back ports of ZODB fixes relating to the packing of storage, where
      a packed database could contain an UNDO transaction which referred
      to data which had been discarded by the pack

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      A fix for fsrecover.py which prevented it from recovering any data

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      Fixes for collector issues 256, 683, 814, 816, 875, 892

For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt 
and HISTORY.txt files for the release:

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      http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.2b2/CHANGES.txt

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      http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.2b2/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/