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Zope 2.5.0 alpha 2 announcement
Zope 2.5.0 alpha 2 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0a2/
Zope 2.5.0 alpha 2 is a preview of things to come in Zope 2.5. While not feature complete (CoreSessionTracking is not in this release) this provides a good view of some of the change work which has taken place in the Zope trunk.
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Zope 2.5.0 alpha 2 corrects an error in Zope 2.5.0 alpha 1 which caused the security machinery to generate an error. The distribution is otherwise identical to 2.5.0 alpha 1
- you can download and apply the following file lib/python/App/Management.py from cvs.zope.org if you wish to apply the fix to Zope 2.5.0 alpha 1
Particular features of interest in 2.5 alpha 2
- Preview field in Image objects
- Editable File objects under 64K for text files
- New User management API
- User folder password encryption
- Path indexes on objects
- Security machinery accelerations
- Document template rendering accelerations
- Page Templates, an alternate page markup
- Distutils infrastructure support for addons
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/2.5.0a2/CHANGES.txt
- http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0a2/HISTORY.txt
For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: