From: Brian Lloyd <Brian@digicool.com> To: "'zope@zope.org'" <zope@zope.org>, Subject: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.0.0 final released Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:58:28 -0400 Hi all, We are happy to announce that at long last Zope 2.0.0 final has been released! Zope 2 is the result of a lot of hard work by both Digital Creations and the Zope community - thanks to all of you who have contributed bug reports, patches, feedback and good ideas to the effort. We feel that Zope 2 represents a great leap forward, and we hope you'll agree that the time spent has been worth it. Zope 2 includes: - A high performance, multithreaded publishing environment - ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database - Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications - Built in searching and indexing support with ZCatalog - WebDAV level 1 support - FTP support - Support for XML-RPC clients. - ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa, - Builtin XML support and DOM interfaces - Many other sundry big significant items, such as: o Look and feel improvements, o Tighter security, o Simpler creation of Python products. Zope 2.0 distributions are available on both the "official" Zope.org website at: http://www.zope.org/ as well as on the new Zope.org beta site at http://www.zope.org:18200. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (To receive general Zope announcements, see: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce For developer-specific issues, zope-dev@zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )