Zope Weekly News for August 11, 1999

It’s a busy time for Zope development. This week Zope 2 beta
releases 2, 3, and 4 came out in quick succession. Zope 2 is in a
feature freeze and all development effort is focused on finding and
fixing bugs.

* Zope 2.0 beta 4 was released. This release fixes quite a few
bugs.

http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b4

* Martijn Pieters posted a good tip on how to perform access
control based on user domains.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007769.html

* People love to discuss DTML syntax. Most people like the new
syntax, though some folks would like to see minor changes. It was
revealed that the syntax will probably not change, but that there
may be another fully xml-compliant syntax in the future.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007812.html
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007931.html

* Jonathan Corbet mentioned that a new Linux-oriented
Zope-powered site has appeared.

http://www.openclassroom.org
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007817.html

* Amos Latteier explained how to manually control the Zope ORB’s
object traversal process.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007825.html

* Steve Spicklemire announced a beta 2 release of his Zieve Zope
product.

http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zieve.tgz

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007876.html

* Kevin Dangoor announced KM|net News Product. This package
provides a fairly advanced a news system including syndication and
voting.

http://www.kendermedia.com/kmnn.html

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007955.html

-Amos