G'day,

Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday before Noon.

Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively.

Announcements

• Two new Zope revisions were released this week. 2.1.5 filled in security holes which affected sites which allow untrusted users to create DTML documents. Ironically, a bug-fix which was included in 2.1.5 broke code which depended on the bug. This was fixed in the second release, 2.1.6.

  http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.5/Zope_215_release http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.6/Zope_216_release

• Thanks to Eduardo Fernandez Corrales, the Zope Weekly News is now available in Spanish! He is publishing translations at Zope Hispano, a portal for Spanish-speaking Zope developers and users.

  http://zope.sistelnet.es

• Healtheon | WebMD is hiring in Atlanta, GA

  Healtheon | WebMD is looking for Software Engineers with experience in Python and/or Zope to work in our Global News Center located in Midtown Atlanta, GA. You must be willing to relocate.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/kbirch-webmd/hiring-notice

New Products

• The Portal Toolkit has been packaged into a snapshot release for use by those who do not have access to CVS. The PTK is targeted at community-oriented portals, but is also appropriate for any site which wants to give members a personalised view of content. The snapshot release is 0.7.1.

  http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK

Updates

• Software Product: load_site.py with additional features, by Itamar Shtull-Trauring

  Itamar has updated his powered-up load_site.py again. The present release is 1.3.1. This update adds a GUI, built with wxPython. load_site is a utility for dumping content from a file system into the ZODB.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site

• Software Product: ZopeEDIT, by "jimbag"

  The latest release of this product, 0.0.5, adds limited RPC support which is used to create and delete folders. ZopeEDIT is a tool which enables any text editor to edit content on a live Zope server. It does not need to run on the same machine as the Zope server.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jimbag/ZopeEDIT/

• Software Product: LocalFS, by Jonothan Farr

  Version 0.1.6, the Ides of March release, fixes several bugs, is more robust about determining file types, and creates XMLDocuments and StructuredDocuments automatically, where appropriate. LocalFS is a product which allows Zope to serve files out of a local filesystem.

  http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000130.html

• Software Product: SiteAccess, by Evan Simpson

  Evan has release version 1.0.1 of SiteAccess. This version fixes a bug which interfered with FTP access to Zope. The SiteAccess product allows Zope to serve different content depending on the hostname the site was accessed by.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess

Zope.org items

• How-To: VersionFTPServer, by "htrd"

  This How-To describes modifications to Zope which allow you to work within a Version through FTP. Versions allow you to stage changes to a Zope site by effectively forking the database. Changes that you make in a Version are not publicly visible until you ask them to be.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/howto/VersionFTPServer

• How-To: How To: Use GenericUserFolder with an SQL database Version 1.1, by "hippy"

  This How-To shows how to customise GenericUserFolder(GUF) to use an SQL database as its repository for usernames, passwords, roles and anything else you want to store about a user. The update adds information from Dennis Baker to help get things going with MySQL.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/hippy/GUF_SQL_crypt_1_1

-- Mike Pelletier.