[Zope-Annce] Zope 2.6.0 Released

Matthew T. Kromer matt@zope.com
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:01:39 -0400


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/