Products.CMFPlone 4.2rc2

The Plone Content Management System (core)

About Plone

Plone is a user friendly Content Management System running on top of Python, Zope and the CMF.

It benefits from all features of Zope/CMF such as: RDBMS integration, Python extensions, Object Oriented Database, Web configurable workflow, pluggable membership and authentication, Undos, Form validation, amongst many many other features. Available protocols: FTP, XMLRPC, HTTP and WEBDAV Turn it into a distributed application system by installing ZEO.

Plone shares some of the qualities of Livelink, Interwoven and Documentum. It aims to be the open source out-of-the-box publishing system.

What is Plone?

Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

• Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.

• Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.

• Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.

• Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3C’s AAA rating for accessibility.

• Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license used by Linux. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.

• Plone is supported. There are over three hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and a multitude of companies that specialize in Plone development and support.

• Plone is extensible. There is a multitude of add-on products for Plone to add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.

• Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.

Technical overview

Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don’t need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.

By default, Plone stores its contents in Zope’s built in transactional object database, the ZODB. There are products and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem files, etc.

Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other platforms; double-click installers are available for Windows and Mac OS X, and RPM packages are available for Linux. For full information, see the plone.org product page.

Changelog

4.2rc2 (2012-05-31)

• Check the existence of a portal_type attribute before accessing it to construct navigation URLs. This avoids an exception when constructing breadcrumb navigation for search results if the result is a ‘Discussion Item’ as the parent Conversation object does not have a portal_type attribute. [gaudenz]

• For event view template, changed headerless table to headings and divs for better accessibility. See bug #13181 [hmharter]

• Add translatable js message for closing popup boxes. Part of fix for http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12122 [smcmahon]

• Handle server redirects during login via popup by detecting change in base. Fixed by incorporating zenwryly’s patch, http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12029 [smcmahon]

• calculate the dynamic fontsize in s5_slides.js (Presentation Mode) in em, not px. This for WCAG 2.0 compliance. See http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12902 [polyester]

• When adding, changing or removing skins, automatically recook all resource registries, to keep theme bundles in-sync. This mirrors the event subscriber support used in plone.app.registry for the same purpose. [hannosch]

• Let the RR export/import steps depend on the skins tool and plone.app.registry steps, as either of them might create new theme bundles [hannosch]

• Hide Kupu base profile on Plone site creation screen. [hannosch]

• PEP 8 (ignoring W602, W604, E301, E302, E501 and E701). [hvelarde]

• Deprecated aliases were replaced on tests. [hvelarde]

• Ensure multiple tabbed forms on the same page work when number of tabs is greater than threshold. [davidjb]

• Remove deprecated jq reference from form tabbing JavaScript. [davidjb]

• Remove incorrect line of form tabbing JavaScript which broke forms with more than 6 tabs. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12877 [davidjb]

• accessibility improvements for screen readers regarding “more” links, see http://dev.plone.org/ticket/11982 [rmattb, applied by polyester]

4.2rc1 (2012-05-07)

• Fix an outdated “Send this” form handler property reference. [rossp]

• removed search_form-template form plone_deprecated-skin. Use collective.searchform if you need this functionality. [tom_gross]

• Use plone.batching for all batches (PLIP #12235) [tom_gross]

• Re-apply PLIP 10901 to table_sort.js, fixing a bug with reversing sort on the first column. [mj]

• Stop filtering folder_listing to the types from @@plone_portal_state/friendly_types, since that excludes non-searchable types rather than non-listable types. [davisagli]

• PloneControlPanel’s enumConfiglets no longer returns invisible configlets. [esteele]

• Hide the (old) Collections control panel by default for new sites. [esteele]

• Use getId() instead of title_or_id() for displaying which items get deleted, to avoid unicode error Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12765 [spereverde]

• Allow form tabbing to be used across different DOM documents. [rossp]

• Hide left column in prefs_main_template when user does not have access to configlets. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12572 [gotcha]

• Hide left column in prefs_main_template when user does not have access to configlets. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12572 [gotcha]

• Make MigrationTool.coreVersions() check for Pillow as well as PIL and PILwoTK. Version will report as “PIL 1.7.6 (Pillow)”. Closes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12158 [smcmahon]

• Decode id and bad characters in check_id script with default_encoding to prevent UnicodeDecodeError when bad characters contains non-ascii letters. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12525 [pingviini]

• Re-apply PLIP 10901 to table_sort.js, fixing a bug with reversing sort on the first column. [mj]

• Add keyword ‘latest’ to metadata.xml’s version tag, which then looks for the highest numbered profile that is registered and pins that to the upgrade step. This means that the version field in metadata.xml only has to be set to ‘latest’ once and then it automatically searches for the highest numbered profile. [eleddy]

4.2b2 (2012-02-09)

• Changed link from search to @@search for the “More” link in livesearch_reply. [vincentfretin]

• Notify ObjectModifiedEvent when a content title is modified through action > rename. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12460 [thomasdesvenain]

• Fixed some mail tests in combination with five.pt. [maurits]

• Do not display the author contact form when the logged in user does not have an email address. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12258 [maurits]

4.2b1 (2011-12-05)

• Define a ZCML feature called plone-42 in addition to the existing plone-4 and plone-41 to be used in conditional ZCML registrations. [vincentfretin]

• Allow “Site Administrator to add keywords” [kleist, suggested by keul]

• IE critical fix on toggle select and form submit helpers. [thomasdesvenain]

• Fixed the two high priority scenarios (global sections viewlet and nav portlet) of http://dev.plone.org/ticket/11189. [fulv]

• Call the view to unlock an item on unload synchronously, so that the call succeeds on Webkit browsers. This closes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/7885 [davisagli]

• Remove uneeded kss debugging code [jfroche]

• Allow users with the Manage Users permission to change the login name of other users; specifically this allows them to change the email address when this is used as login name. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11255 [maurits]

• Removed the ‘What’ row in the event view that displayed the keywords; this is already handled by the keywords viewlet. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/10818 [maurits]

• Make control panel action GS export return actions alphabetically since there is no other natural ordering. [ggozad]

• Fixed folder_listing template so that listing macro can be used outside of folder_listing. [thomasdesvenain]

• Fix PloneTool.changeOwnershipOf to not pass MemberData to the underlying Owned.changeOwnership, but a plain User object only. [stefan]

• Fixed bug that treated ids of objects outside the portal, but on the acquisition path, as reserved. Fixeѕ http://dev.plone.org/ticket/10547 [rochecompaan]

4.2a2 - 2011-08-25

• AuthenticatedUsers group is used for local roles etc, and is not the same as Authenticated role. Thus, it can not be optimized away in catalog queries. [tesdal]

• getFolderContents only sets b_size if batching is true. [do3cc]

4.2a1 - 2011-08-08

• Added hidden year/month/day/hour/minute/ampm labels to calendar macros. Part of a form accessibility cleanup. [smcmahon]

• Removed registration of the input-label.js from the portal_javascript tool. Those with a desperate need to support the ‘placeholder’ text functionality in the obsolete browsers are free to re-register the script in their own instances. [spliter]

• Deprecated input-label.js — instead we are using the HTML5 ‘placeholder’ attribute on the input fields. [spliter]

• Deprecated IEFixes.css after we have introduced Modernizr and removed it’s GS registration. References http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11300 [spliter]

• Added Modernizr 2 library. References http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11300 [spliter]

• Switch to HTML5 doctype. References http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11300 [spliter]

• Include plone.app.collection and related packages. Refs http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/10902 [esteele]