Hi all,

on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.1b1. You can download the sources and the Windows version from

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.1b1/

Some new features of Zope 2.8:

• 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/)

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

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.1b1/CHANGES.txt

See also:

http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView

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

http://collector.zope.org/Zope

For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see:

http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx

-- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)