Digital Creations is pleased to announce the beta release of version 1.1 of its Content Management Framework (CMF).

From the README

What is the CMF?

The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides.

Resources

• Download the CMF
• The CMF site.
• The mailing list.
  • List information and online signup. Archives
  • List archives.

  Installation

  Please see Installing CMF

From the Changelog

New features

• Added CMFCore.utils.keywordsplitter to construct Subject Dublin Core header from both Keywords and Subject headers passed in (meta tags/rfc822).
• CMF Document now uses StructuredTextNG for structured text handling. Nicely enough, it uses the "with images" features, and also enables named and inner links.
• CMF Document exposes two new accessor methods for getting at the "cooked" and editable body, CookedBody(), and EditableBody(). Using the cooked_text and text instance attributes should be considered deprecated.
• Added new "exemplar" content product, CMFCalendar, which (for now) adds a simple content object, Event. This product serves a similar didactic purpose as CMFTopic (which is now "in the core"): it shows how to build new content types as filesystem products.
• Implemented improved "safety belt" for concurrent Document editing. See the dogbowl proposal, http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/ContentSafetyBelt
• Added new filesystem-based skin method type, FSSTXMethod, for creating "methods" which render STX.
• Exposed "controlled vocabulary" for Subject in metadata_edit_form.
• Gave portal_skins tool its own PUT_factory (Tracker #238). Allows site builder to create skin methods via WebDAV/FTP, including ZPT, PythonScripts, etc.
• Implemented "outbound" segment of the "Syndication tool" proposal, q.v., http://cmf.zope.org/CMF/Members/andrew/folderRSS
• Made PUT_factory use new content_type_registry tool.
• Made PUT_factory use invokeFactory, so that objects created via PUT have their portal_type set properly.
• Added ContentTypeRegistry class and related predicates for mapping PUT requests (name,content_type,body) to type object names.
• Allowed Reviewers to "retract" published content owned by others.
• Added "Overview" ZMI view to tools.
• Added "Dublin Core" ZMI view to PortalContent; added an editing view for Document and derivatives.
• Added "drop-in" workflow objects to the WorkflowTool, including the ability to map workflows onto content types.
• Changed CMFDefault.Portal to install CMF Topic by default when building a new CMF Site.
• Added a new criteria type, FriendlyDateCriterion, to CMFTopic for building queries like When effective_date is less than five days old.
• Implemented portal_metadata tool. See the dogbowl proposal, http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/completed/metadata_tool.
• Extended DirectoryView objects to reload when the directory they represent has changed, if Zope is running in debug mode.
• Added hooks to CookieCrumbler to permit site managers to customize seting/expiring of the authentication cookie by adding PythonScripts; two default filesystem implementations are in CMFDefault's "control" skin.
• Extended TypesTool to deal appropriately with DTML factory methods (e.g., for ZClasses).
• Made FSDTMLMethods searchable from the ZMI (Issue PTK(251)[]).
• plus numerous bugfixes.