[Zope-CMF] CPS 3.4.0 released!
David Pratt
fairwinds at eastlink.ca
Tue Mar 7 12:56:13 EST 2006
Congratulations Stefane and CPS!
Stefane Fermigier wrote:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> CPS 3.4.0 released!
> ===================
>
> After 1 year and 1/2 of hard work (more than 11000 commits by 32 developers),
> Nuxeo is pleased to announce, on behalf of the CPS developers community, the
> release of CPS 3.4.0, the new stable version of CPS, the open source ECM
> platform.
>
> Source code is available here:
>
> http://www.cps-project.org/static/src/
> or
> http://www.cps-project.org/sections/downloads/
>
> A binary installer for Windows (includes Zope 2.9.1) here:
>
> http://www.cps-project.org/static/windows/CPS-3.4.0-1.exe
>
> And other binaries are planned for release in a few days (including MacOS).
>
> Please read the following for more information on CPS and CPS 3.4.
>
> What is CPS?
> ------------
>
> CPS is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform that
> provides developers with a rich toolkit to create applications in the fields
> of: Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM), Collaboration
> (CSCW), Workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) and corporate portals.
>
> CPS may be compared to proprietary solutions like Documentum by EMC,
> LiveLink by OpenText, or SharePoint by Microsoft.
>
> For more information, check:
>
> - Marketing material at: http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/cps/
>
> What's new?
> -----------
>
> A lot of things have changed since the previous major stable release, CPS 3.2,
> in september 2004. Here are the most important ones.
>
> User-visible changes
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> 1. A new default UI, that features both usability improvement and a
> better-looking default skin. This makes working with CPS a more enjoyable
> experience for end-users.
>
> 2. Switch from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Strict, with work
> on accessibility (A-level by default, AA and AAA-level possible at the
> expense of some features).
>
> 3. AJAXification: use of AJAX techniques for a more responsive and more
> powerful UI (asynchronous form updates).
>
> 4. CPSSkins, which is a very powerful web-based WYSIWYG theme editor for
> CMF-based applications, has been integrated. It makes it easy for graphic
> designers or webmasters to modify the look of CPS without writing
> CSS or template code.
>
> 5. CPSPortlets, a web-based WYSIWYG portlet editor that makes it easy for
> content administrators to modify the presentation of information on
> a CPS site.
>
> 6. New applicative products have been added to the CPS default application:
> CPSBlog (for blogs), CPSWiki (for wikis), CPSOOo (to manage OpenOffice.org
> documents).
>
> 7. The webmail and shared calendar components have been completely rewritten.
> They are available as separate packages.
>
> 8. CPSGeo, a GIS product for CPS that allows for geolocation of documents in a
> CPS application. It is available as a separate package.
>
> Architecture changes
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> 1. We have switched to recent versions of Zope (2.9) and CMF (1.6).
>
> 2. We have switched most new developments to the Zope 3 component architecture,
> thanks to Five, the bridge between Zope 2 and Zope 3.
>
> 3. We now use of GenericSetup, the new "default", XML-based, configuration
> tool, instead of CPSInstaller. Using declarative configuration makes it now
> much easier to manage upgrades between versions
>
> 4. We have switched the unit and functional test harnesses to the Zope 2.9
> layer-based test runner. This eases the creation and speeds up the execution
> for the 2543 tests included in the CPS source code so far.
>
> 5. We now use CPSUserFolder as a powerful replacement to UserFolder.
> CPSUserFolder makes it possible to use a user directory managed by
> CPSDirectory as a source of users in CPS.
>
> 6. DCWorkflow has been extended as CPSWorkflow to provide a document-based
> workflow engine with dynamic schemas support (inspired by the activity-based
> workflow model) that can handle any document-based business process. This
> hybrid model gives all the power and flexibility needed to define dynamic
> validation / review / delegation states to model any paper process you have
> in the real world, while keeping workflow modeling simple enough to be
> easily understood by users.
>
> 7. CPSRemoteController provides a Web Service interface to remotely control
> CPS portals (both from another CPS portal or from totally different
> applications) in a language-independent manner through XML-RPC.
> CPSRemoteController is also very handy for task automation.
>
> 8. CPSRelation provides a tool that manages RDF relations between content
> objects.
>
> 9. Many, speed optimisations, at both low level (including work on ZODB
> transactions and CPSCore internal optimizations) and high level (rendering
> of CPSDocument and CPSPortlets caches) to make it possible to manage
> applications with hundreds of thousands of documents (soon: millions of
> documents) and tens of gigabytes of data (soon: terabytes of data).
>
> Packaging changes
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> CPS is now distributed as several packages.
>
> - "CPS Platform": the ECM platform. It embeds all the infrastructure components
> that are needed to develop ECM applications. The primary audience for CPS
> Platform is developers.
> - "CPS": the application. A standard full-featured content management
> application based on CPS Platform, that features a rich set of default
> content types, a blog, a wiki and a forum. The primary audience for CPS
> Platform is people that want to try out CPS, as well as internet or intranet
> sites administrators with minimal customisation needs.
> CPS is available both as source code packages, and binary installers for
> several popular platforms (including MS-Windows).
> - "CPS Legacy": a set of old components which are either deprecated or
> currently unmaintained. These components are needed to upgrade older versions
> of CPS. The primary audience for CPS Legacy: internet or intranet sites
> administrators who need to upgrade old instances of CPS.
>
> More information
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> An updated document "What's new in CPS 3.4", as well as more information like
> tutorials and screencasts, will be published on http://cps-project.org/ in
> the upcoming days.
>
> Prerequisites to installation
> -----------------------------
>
> Zope 2.9 is mandatory for installation from the source code.
>
> Some third-party Python librairies may also be needed, depending on the
> components you will want to activate on instanciation.
>
> For more information, check:
>
> http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/INSTALL.txt
> http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/README.txt
>
> Upgrading
> ---------
>
> In any case, DON'T DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION SITE. Make backups first, or run the
> procedure on a copy.
>
> If you are running a recent version of CPS, go to portal_setup at the root of
> your CPS (from the ZMI) and see, from the "Upgrades" tab, if some upgrades need
> to be run.
>
> If you are running an older version (no portal_setup), start by adding a "CPS
> Setup Tool" (not a "Generic Setup Tool") from the "CPS Tools" ZMI menu item,
> before running the upgrades.
>
> Upgrades have not been tested from every possible version, and some work,
> that is planned for CPS 3.4.1, is needed to cover all the major cases.
>
> For more information on upgrades, please join one of the CPS users mailing
> lists (see below) or wait for further information that will be published on
> www.cps-project.org.
>
> About CPS
> ---------
>
> CPS is the most advanced Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
> platform.
>
> It is based on the Zope application server, the CMF content management
> framework, is the result of important CMS, ECM and workflow projects carried
> out in the public administration and the private sector, and of the
> collaboration of dozens of open source developers.
>
> For more technical information:
>
> http://www.cps-project.org/ and http://svn.nuxeo.org/
>
> For marketing material:
>
> http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/cps/
>
> For technical information about this release:
>
> http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/doc/tech-notes.txt
>
> Getting involved
> ----------------
>
> Please join the CPS users, developers or translators mailing list on
> http://lists.nuxeo.com/
>
> Please report issues or requests for enhancements ont the CPS trac at:
> http://svn.nuxeo.org/
>
> If you'd like to add a translation to your native language, besides the current
> 11 ones (en, fr, de, it, es, pt_br, es, ro, mg, eu, ml), or to improve an
> existing one, we welcome your contribution.
>
> The future roadmap for CPS will be discussed on the cps-devel mailing list.
>
> Thanks
> ------
>
> On behalf of the CPS core development team, I'd like to express our gratitude
> to all the people that have been involved in this process (core and casual
> developers, testers, documentation authors, translators, etc.), and to the
> Python / Zope / CMF developers communities that make our work possible.
>
> Special thanks to all the CPS customers, because CPS development is driven by
> the projects that are actually using it.
>
> FAQ
> ---
>
> *Q*: Is CPS really open source? Aren't there any proprietary extensions that
> are sold on top of the platform?
>
> *A*: CPS is 100% open source / free software. You can use it, modify it and
> redistribute it, under the terms of the GPL license. We (Nuxeo) don't sell
> licenses, only support and develop customers projects on top of CPS Platform.
> And if you are a free software developer, you are very welcome to join the
> project as a tester, bugfixer, third-party product developer or core developer.
>
>
>
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