Zope 5.0a2

Zope application server / web framework

Zope is an open-source web application server.

This document provides some general information about Zope and provides links to other documents. The full documentation can be found at https://zope.readthedocs.io.

• Installation

• License

• Bug tracker

• Change log

Installation

Please visit the installation documentation at https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL.html for detailed installation guidance.

License

Zope is licensed under the OSI-approved Zope Public License (ZPL), version 2.1. The full license text is included in LICENSE.txt.

Bug tracker

Bugs reports should be made through the Zope bugtracker at https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/issues. A bug report should contain detailed information about how to reproduce the bug.

Change log

These are all the changes for Zope 5, starting with the alpha releases, since the branch point at Zope 4.1.2.

The change log for the previous version, Zope 4, is at https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/4.x/CHANGES.rst

5.0a2 (2020-04-24)

Bug fixes

• Pin AccessControl 4.2 for the Manage WebDAV Locks permission

• Fix HEAD requests on registered views (#816)

• Improve chameleon –> zope.tales context wrapper (support for template variable injection) (#812).

• Require zope.tales>=5.0.2

• Fix issue 717 by fully honoring the engine returned by PageTemplate.pt_getEngine (#717). The engine also decides about the use of zope.tales (engine is an instance of zope.pagetemplate.engine.ZopeBaseEngine) or chameleon.tales (otherwise) TALES expressions.

• Fixed encoding issue of displayname WebDAV property (#797)

• Fixed fallback implementation of manage_DAVget (#799)

Other changes

• Update to newest versions of dependencies.

5.0a1 (2020-02-28)

Backwards incompatible changes

• Drop support for Python 2.7 aka Zope 5 cannot be run on Python 2 any more. If you are still running on Python 2.7 upgrade to the latest Zope 4 version first, migrate to Python 3 and than switch to Zope 5. (#692)

• Remove all backwards-compatibility code marked to go away in Zope 5 (#478)

• Drop support for running Zope with ZServer as it is Python 2 only. (#592)

• Remove deprecated postProcessInputs request method. (#782)

• Remove deprecated module ZPublisher.maybe_lock. (#758)

• Remove Help System methods from the product context. (#756)

• Remove more deprecated code. (#757)

• Updated Zope documentation sources for Zope 5. (#659)

New features

• Restore WebDAV support in Zope. (#744)

• Enable WebDAV support independent of ZServer. (#787)

• Clean up and sanitize permissions used for WebDAV-related methods.

• Add wsgi.file_wrapper implementation https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#optional-platform-specific-file-handling (#719)

Bug fixes

• Only use wsgi.file_wrapper for response bodies with a read method. (#763)

• Improve detection of HTTPS requests. (#680)

• Fix several ZMI links so they respect virtual hosting. (#788)

• Fix sort link URLs on manage_main (#748)

• More tests to make sure all __str__ implementations return native strings. (#692)

• Fix longstanding test bug by forcing the page template engine. Many tests in Products.PageTemplates used the old Zope page template engine because the correct one was not registered during setup.

• Close opened db during shutdown (as ZServer is already doing). (#740)

• The method unrestrictedTraverse raises an error when the argument path is not something it can work with. (#674)

• Improve ZMI Security Tab usability for high numbers of roles. (#730)

• Some small ZMI rendering fixes. (#729)

• Fix error when using database minimize in the ZMI. (#726)

• Fix __getattr__ signature in UnauthorizedBinding. (#703)

• Fix VirtualHostMonster not being able to set mappings under Python 3. (#708)

• Reduce the danger of acquiring built-in names on the ZMI Find tab. (#712)

• Restore the mistakenly removed Properties ZMI tab on Image objects (#706)

• Fix OFS.Image.File.__str__ for Pdata contents (#711)

• Set REMOTE_USER in wsgi environ using Zope user authentication (#713)

• Add Paste as extras_require dependency to pull in Paste when installing with pip and constraints.txt to prevent startup errors. This requires adding the [wsgi] extra in the egg specification. (#734)

Other changes

• Move retried request delay handling out of supports_retry (#474)

• Improve documentation for Zope’s error logging services.