[Zope3-dev] Zope X3 Milestone 2 has been released

[Jim Fulton]

What is Zope X3? It's Zope 3 "experimental". This is the release
that will provide the new features of Zope 3 without any Zope 2
support.   Zope 3.0 will provide support for Zope 2 content and
products, probably using conversion utilities of some sort.

This release is the second Zope 3 release. The goals of
this release are to:

- Provide a relatively firm foundation for Zope 3
   developers who want to start building Zope 3 products or to
   contribute to development.

- Provide wider exposure of Zope 3.

- Solicit input on features, current and missing.

The first release was very slow.  This release is much less
slow, but it's not fast.  We have mostly avoided
optimization to keep the code as clean as possible. Optimization
will be performed prior to the first beta release.

This is STILL an EARLY release. There is very little organized
documentation, although there are some tutorials
(http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ProgrammerTutorial) and lots of bits of
documentation spread around the system.

A lot of work has been done since the last release, including:

- General UI improvements

- Performance improvements (much more to come)

   This release is much less slow than the previous release.

- Improvements to the through-the-web site management experience
   (There's still a lot more to do.)

- Internationalization improvements

- FTP Support

- PUT support (Allowing editing with Mozolla/Netscape Composer and
                Amaya).

- Partial WebDAV support

- A basic workflow system

- Improvements to Zope 3 schemas and form generation

- A functional testing framework

- Virtual Hosting support

- A Utility service

- XML "interfaces" derived from XML Schema URIs.
   These marker interfaces can be used to control application
   of XML processing using the component architecture.

- New search indexes

- Views on exceptions.

Much thanks to everone who contributed to this release:

     Alan Runyan, Albertas Agejevas, Alexander Limi, Andreas Jung,
     Anthony Baxter, Axel Bringenberg, Barry Warsaw, Bruce Eckel,
     Christian Heimes, Christian Theune, Fred Drake, Gary Poster,
     Godefroid Chapelle, Gregoire Weber, Guido van Rossum, Jeremy
     Hylton, Jim Fulton, Marius Gedminas, Martijn Faassen, Michael
     Howitz, Nathan Yergler, Paul Winkler, Philipp von
     Weitershausen, Phillip Eby, R. David Murray, R. Sean Bowman,
     Sathya Rangaswami, Sidnei da Silva, Stephan Richter, Steve
     Alexander, Tim Peters, Tres Seaver, Ulrich Eck, Viktorija
     Zaksiene, and Volker Bachschneider

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