Zope 2.6.0 Beta 1 Released

ZOPE 2.6.0 Beta 1 Released

Zope 2.6.0 represents the first Zope release formed with a large number of community contributions. You may download Zope 2.6.0b1 from Zope.org:

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0b1/

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 2.6.0b1:

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, 151, 160, 178, 186, 196, 238, 271, 272, 304, 358, 402, 412, 421, 433, 437, 446, 448, 454, 458, 465, 478, 510, 512, 516, 525, 528, 541, 547, 550, 574, 583
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:

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