Hi all,

on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.9.6. You can download the sources and the Windows version from

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.6/

Some new features of Zope 2.9:

• ZODB 3.6
• Five 1.3
• integration for Zope 3 events for object creation and deletion
• Zope 3 i18n integration for page templates

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

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.6/CHANGES.txt

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

Support Python versions:

Zope 2.9 requires Python 2.4.3+ (Python 2.4.2 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Also Python 2.5 is unsupported (and not working).

-- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)