Overview

five.customerize is an add-on for the Zope Applicationserver. It provides the ability to customize Page-Template-based browser-views through the web.

It was created to replace the old CMF’s portal_skin tools, where it is possible to customize old-style file-system based page templates.

Developer Resources

• Source Code

• Issue Tracker

License

This code is publsihed under the Zope Public License (ZPL) Version 2.1

The license is included in the LICENSE.txt file.

4.1 (2026-05-14)

• Add support for Python 3.14.

• Drop support for Python 3.9.

4.0 (2025-02-15)

• Drop support for pkg_resources namespace and replace it with PEP 420 native namespace. Caution: This change requires to switch all packages in the five namespace to versions using a PEP 420 namespace.

• Add support for Python 3.12, 3.13.

• Drop support for Python 3.7, 3.8.

• Drop Python 2 leftovers.

3.0.0 (2024-01-19)

• Drop support for Python < 3.7.

• Add support for Python 3.11.

2.1.0 (2022-06-29)

• Add support for Python 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10.

• Fix tests to run successfully on Zope >= 5.2.1.

2.0.1 (2020-03-21)

Bug fixes:

• Minor packaging updates. [various]

2.0.0 (2018-11-04)

Breaking changes:

• Drop support for Zope versions older than 4.0

• Remove deprecatared __of__ for BrowserViews [MrTango]

New features:

• Add support for Python 3 [pbauer]

Bug fixes:

• Fix test to work with Zope 4, where makeClassForTemplate was removed and replaced with SimpleViewClass. [thet]

• Switch test setup to use plone.testing.

1.1 (2012-08-30)

• Removed dependency and support for zope.app.pagetemplate.

1.0.3 (2012-05-07)

• Fix bug which prevented authorization of TTW views in Zope 2.12+ [davisagli]

1.0.2 (2011-10-07)

• Fixed: mangle works when a template has in its path a folder which name starts with a dot. [thomasdesvenain]

1.0.1 - 2011-04-03

• Made tests compatible with PluggableAuthService 1.7.3 [esteele]

1.0 - 2010-06-13

• Package metadata cleanup and provide a buildout configuration for testing the package on its own. [hannosch]

• Made tests compatible with Zope 2.13 and avoid deprecation warnings. [hannosch]

1.0b1 - 2010-05-01

• Updated imports to avoid dependencies on zope.app.component and zope.app.container. [davisagli]

• Fixed a memory leak by making sure that TTW view subclasses are only generated once, rather than once per request. [davisagli]

• Make sure TTW viewlet and portlet classes get the containing view as the view parameter on initialization, rather than getting themselves. [davisagli]

1.0a1 - 2009-11-14

• Support Zope 2.12’s BoundPageTemplateFile.

• Fixed deprecation warnings for use of Globals.

• Specify all package dependencies.

• Avoid a dependency on zope.app.apidoc by copying over the getViews method.

0.3 - 2008-07-07

• Fix for the long-standing issue where the security context had mysteriously gone missing.

0.2 - 2007-08-17

• Support for viewlets and portlets as used in Plone 3.0

0.1.3 - 2007-07-08

• Fix in setup.py

0.1.2 - 2007-05-04

• Release for Plone 3.0beta3 without OSX metadata

0.1.1 - 2007-03-03

• Minor tweaks and enhancements for the integration into Plone 3.0

0.1 - 2006-10-30

• Initial version.