From: Amos Latteier <Amos@digicool.com> To: "'editor@lwn.net'" <editor@lwn.net> Subject: Zope Weekly News Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:04:39 -0400 Hello, The major news this week is the availability of the first preview release of Zope 1.11.0. This release introduces a lot of exciting new stuff, including many enhancements contributed by community members. * Zope 1.11.0 preview release 1 was released. This is the first look at a major new release. This release adds a lot of new features including the mysterious ZClasses. Those who like stable releases should stick with 1.10.2 until 1.11.0 stabilizes a bit. http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-1.11.0pr1/ http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-1.11.0pr1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/006317.html * Zope was mentioned in an Infoworld article about WebDAV. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990430.icglyph.htm * Thomas Riedl announced the availability of a Database Adapter for Adabas. http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/ZAdabasDA-1.0.tgz http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/006281.html * Zope showed up on Builder.com's forums. Comments seemed mostly positive. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/006304.html http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@115.DO2Za4NVc1I^1@.ee79d48 http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@115.DO2Za4NVc1I^1@.ee79d48/0 * Chris Petrilli joined Digital Creations this week. This continues Digital Creations spate of hiring prominent Python community members to work on Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-April/006251.html * Andrey V Khavryutchenko announced a package to extend Zope's object database to store data in MySQL rather than in a file. http://kbi.kiev.ua/~akhavr/projects/python-oordb.shtml http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-April/006255.html That's all for this week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com