Zope 2.8.10 Released

Correcting an important security vulnerability.

Announcing the Release of Zope version 2.8.10

On behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.10. You can download the sources and the Windows version from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.10/

This bugfix release corrects the vulnerability addressed in the 2007/03/20 Hotfix. You may remove that hotfix product from your instances after upgrading to this version of Zope.

New features of Zope 2.8.x

ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites.
Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection.
Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see http://codespeak.net/z3/five/)

More Information

For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release:

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.10/CHANGES.txt

Reporting Bugs

Please report all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker:

http://collector.zope.org/Zope

Supported Python versions

At this time the only supported and recommended Python versions are 2.3.4 and 2.3.5.

Using Python 2.4.X is not supported and not recommended at this time. Python 2.4.X will be supported when a security audit takes place. This means that you are using Python 2.4 + Zope 2.8 at your own risk. This warning also applies to binary packages that install Zope packages together with a system wide Python 2.4 installation (e.g. Fedora, SuSE...). Such installations are in general not supported. In addition there some third-party products and Python packages that don't work with Python 2.4 and can cause trouble when using Python 2.4.

-- Andreas Jung (info at zopyx dot com)

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