Zope Changes

  This file contains change information for the current Zope release.
  Change information for previous versions of Zope can be found in the
  file HISTORY.txt.

  To-do

   - Renable C permission roles by implementing recent Python
     changes in C, brining the Python and C implementations back in
     sync.  See lib/python/AccessControl/PermissionRole.py.

   - Add cyclic-garbage collection support to C extension classes,
     especially to acquisition wrappers.

   - Renable C Zope security policy by implementing recent Python
     changes in C, brining the Python and C implementations back in
     sync.  See lib/python/AccessControl/ZopeSecurityPolicy.py.

   - Change acquisition wrappers to implement the descr get slot
     directly, this speeding the use of the slot.

   - Port ZOPE_CONFIG patch from Zope 2.7 to Zope 2.8

  after Zope 2.8a1

    Features added

      - Fixed ObjectManager to not swallow exceptions during object
        deletion (in debug mode and if the user is not Manager). This
        allows for better debugging, while still keeping the possibility
        for a Manager to delete buggy objects.

      - Added a ZConfig directive 'large-file-threshold' to control
        the request content-size threshold at which a temporary file
        gets created. Use the same value for deciding between reading
        the whole request in memory or just a chunk inside
        webdav.NullResource.PUT().

      - RAMCacheManager: Allow invalidation of a cache entry from the
        Statistics view in the ZMI

      - Collector #1454/OFS.File: Accept content types ending with
        "javascript" as editable through the File edit form, just like
        text/<foo> types

    Bugs fixed

      - Collector #1498: Don't choke on malformed cookies. Cookies of
        the form "foo=bar; hmm; baz=gee" will give an empty value for
        'hmm' instead of silently discarding it and the rest of the
        string. (Thanks to 'sirilyan' for the patch.)

      - bin/zopectl test now uses os.execv, instead os os.system,
        so that options with characters that needs shell quoting
        doesn't break the command.

      - Collector #1219:  Make XML export sane again.

      - Collector #945:  Allow adding empty PythonScript instances
        programmatically.

      - Updated doc/UNITTEST.txt and lib/python/Testing/README.txt to
        reflect progress made since UNITTEST.txt was originally written.

      - Removed Version objects from the add menu. Versions are agreed to be a
        feature that should not be used as it is not well implemented and
        allows for data loss.

      - Collector #1510: Allow encoding of application/xhtml+xml pages
        according to the charset specified in the Content-Type header
        (thanks to Jacek Konieczny for the patch).

      - Collector #1599: made sqltest work with unicode strings (thanks
        to Peter Sabaini for the patch).

      - zopectl: fixed handling of child processes (patch by Dieter Maurer)

      - Collector #1593: fixed dumb _get_id() implementation in
        OFS.CopySupport that produced copy_of_copy_of....files (thanks
        to Alexandre Boeglin for the patch).

      - Collector #1450: files in utilities/ZODBTools are now installed
        during the installation process in the 'bin' directory

      - Collector #1003: added new 'http-header-max-length' directive
        to zope.conf to specific the maximum length of a HTTP request
        header before it is considered as a possible DoS attack and
        discarded.

      - Collector #1371: added new 'cgi-maxlen' directive to zope.conf 
        to limit the amount of form data being processed by Zope 
        to prevent DoS attacks

      - Collector #1407: changed WebDAV display name for objects
        to title_or_id() 

      - the 'trusted-proxy' directive in zope.conf now also accepts
        hostnames instead of IP addresses only (patch by Dieter Maurer)

      - Fixed test.py to not over-resolve symbolic links. Needed to run
        tests when the Products directory and a product are symlinks.

      - Collector #1583/ZReST: Fixed handling of the title attribute
        for non-ascii characters.

      - Collector #1577: Fixed cryptic error message in ZPublisher if a
        non-ASCII string is passed to a date, int, long or float property.

      - Collector #1576: Fixed Z Search Interface to use proper HTML.

      - Collector #1127: strftime did not take timezone into account.

      - Collector #1569/DateTime: Added a new ISO8601-method that will
        return correctly formatted ISO 8601-representations to augment
        the ISO method which isn't compliant with ISO 8601.

      - ZPublisher: changed some hardcoded 'latin1' arguments to 'iso-8859-15'
        since latin1 is obsolete.

      - Collector #1566: Installation of Zope on some older Solaris versions
        could fail due to a broken "echo" implementation causing the 
        creation of a borked version.txt file.                       

      - Collector #934: Image and File objects are now always internally
        split into small chunks even when initialized from a string.

      - docutils: updated to V 0.3.5. The Zope core now contains a full copy of
        the docutils package except some GPLed files which can not be included
        with the Zope distribution due to license constraints on svn.zope.org.

      - docutils: moved from lib/python/docutils to
        lib/python/third_party/docutils

      - Collector #1557/OFS.Image: Introducing new 'alt' property. The 'alt'
        attribute is no longer taken from the 'title' property but from the new
        'alt' property.  The border="0" attribute is no longer part of the HTML
        output except specified otherwise.

      - Set a default value of '' for the new 'alt' property as not to
        break existing content.

      - Collector #1511: made IPCServer show up in the Control Panel under
        "Network Services"

      - Collector #1443: Applied patch by Simon Eisenmann that reimplements
        the XML parser used in WebDAV fixing a memory leak.

      - Always unescape element contents on webdav.xmltools

      - Use saxutils to escape/unescape values for/from
        PROPFIND/PROPPATCH.

      - Make OFS.PropertySheet use the escaping function from
        webdav.xmltools.

      - Escape/unescape &quot; and &apos;

      - Don't escape properties stored as XML (ie: having a
        __xml_attrs__ metadata set by PROPPATCH) when building a
        PROPFIND response.

      - If a PROPPATCH element value contains only a CDATA section,
        store the CDATA contents only.

      - Catch AttributeErrors and KeyErrors raised from
        __bobo_traverse__ and convert them to NotFound. In debug mode
        a more verbose error message is issued, the same way it's done
        on attribute/item traversal.

      - Collector #1523: replace the text field for importing .zexp/.xml
        files with a selection list

      - Stitch newly-created object into it's container *before*
        calling it's PUT() method. This fixes an issue with
        OFS.File/OFS.Image that would result into reading the whole
        file in memory and wrapping it into a *single* Pdata object.

      - Import ZServer.CONNECTION_LIMIT variable *inside* the method
        that uses it. Before this, the variable was imported at the
        module level, thus binding it too early which would cause the
        ZConfig handler to have no real effect.

  Zope 2.8a1


    Features added

     - Included Stefan Holek's ZopeTestCase 0.9

     - The SiteErrorLog allows you to acknowledge (or delete) exceptions,
       so you can reduce or clear the list without restarting your
       Zope server. Additionally the SiteErrorLog is covered by unit tests
       now.

     - Unit tests added for the SiteErrorLog.

     - UI improvement for the ZCatalog. The "catalog contents" allow
       you to filter the cataloged objects by path now.

     - Made test.py follow symbolic links on POSIX systems.

     - added utilities/reindex_catalog.py to perform ZCatalog maintenance
       operations from the command line (through zopectl)

     - RESPONSE.setBody and RESPONSE.setStatus now accept lock
       parameters in the same way as RESPONSE.redirect. These prevent
       further calls to the methods from overwriting the previous value.
       This is useful when writing http proxies.

     - DateTime: new DateTime instance can be constructed from a given
       DateTime instance: d_new = DateTime(d_old)

     - The DateTime parser now throws a SyntaxError upon any parsing errors.

     - ZCatalog: added a new configuration option in the "Advanced" tab
       to provide optional logging of the progress of long running
       reindexing or recataloging operations.

     - made Zope.configure return the starter instance to enable other
       methods to be called, such as starter.setupConfiguredLoggers()

     - Improved Unicode handling in Page Templates. Template contents
       and title will now be saved as a Unicode string if
       the management_page_charset variable can be acquired and is true.
       The character set of an uploaded file can now be specified.

     - zopectl now accepts the -m argument to set a umask for files created
       by the managed process (e.g. -m 002 or --umask 002).

     - AccessControl/permission_settings() now has a new optional parameter
       'permission' to retrieve the permission settings for a particular
       permission.

     - The obsolete 'SearchIndex' package has been removed

     - Traversal now supports a "post traversal hook" that get's run
       after traversal finished and the security context is established.

     - Using "_usage" parameters in a ZCatalog query is deprecated and
       logged as DeprecationWarning.

     - MailHost now has two additional properties, a user id and a
       password. These are used to attempt ESMTP authentication
       before sending a mail.

     - Folder listings in FTP now include "." as well as "..".

     - When a VHM is activated, it adds the mapping
       'VIRTUAL_URL_PARTS': (SERVER_URL, BASEPATH1, virtual_url_path)
       to the request's 'other' dictionary.  If BASEPATH1 is empty, it
       is omitted from the tuple.  The joined parts are also added
       under the key 'VIRTUAL_URL'.  Since the parts are evaluated
       before traversal continues, they will not reflect modifications
       to the path during traversal or by the addition of a default
       method such as 'index_html'.

     - Extension Classes, a key Zope foundation, have been totally
       rewritten based on Python new-style classes.

       This change provides a number of advantages:

       o Use of new-style class features (e.g. slots, descriptors,
         etc.) in Zope objects. Support for object protocols (special
         __ methods) added since Python 1.4.

       o Support for cyclic garbage collection.

       o Ability to use new-style classes as base classes of Zope objects.

       o Pave the way for sharing code between Zope 2 and Zope 3.

       Note -- Extension classes with __of__ methods are made into
         Python read descriptors.

         If an extension classes is used to implement a descriptor,
         indirectly by implementing __of__ or directly by implementing
         __get__, the behavior of the descriptor will differ from
         ordinary descriptors in an important way. The descriptors
         __get__ method will be called *even if* the descriptor is
         stored on an instance of an extension class.  Normally
         descritor __get__ methods are called only of the descriptor
         is stored in a class.

     - ZODB 3.3

       This is the first version of ZODB that does not require
       ExtensionClass.

     - Add 'parity' method to ZTUtils Iterators.

     - Allow untrusted code to mutate ZPublisher record objects.

     - Added a "mime-types" configuration value which names a file
       giving additional MIME type to filename extension mappings.
       The "mime-types" setting may be given more than once in the
       configuration file; the files have the same format at the
       mime.types file distributed with Apache.

     - Changed the ZEO server and control process to work with a
       single configuration file; this is now the default way to
       configure these processes.  (It's still possible to use
       separate configuration files.)  The ZEO configuration file can
       now include a "runner" section used by the control process and
       ignored by the ZEO server process itself.  If present, the
       control process can use the same configuration file.

     - ZConfig was updated to version 2.0.  The new version includes
       two new ways to perform schema extension; of particular
       interest in Zope is the ability for a configuration file to
       "import" new schema components to allow 3rd-party components
       (such as storages, databases, or logging handlers) to be used.

     - The testrunner.py script has been replaced with test.py which
       is now installed into the 'bin' folder.

    Bugs fixed

     - Removed Python 2.3.3 as valid option. ZODB 3.3 requires Python
       2.3.4 or later.

     - Collector #1332: Added in-place migration of the Catalog.__len__
       attribute to avoid new-style class caching problems. Instances of
       ZCatalog or instances of classes with ZCatalog as base class will be
       migrated automatically. Instances of Catalog or classes with Catalog
       as base class must be migrated manually by calling the migrate__len__()
       method on the every instance. In addition old BTree migration code
       (for pre-Zope 2.5 instances) has been removed. If you want to migrate
       from such an old version to Zope 2.8, you need to clear and reindex
       your ZCatalog).

     - Collector #1457: ZCTextIndex's QueryError and ParseError
       are now available for import from untrusted code.

     - Collector #1473: zpasswd.py can now accept --username
       without --password

     - Collector #1491: talgettext.py did not create a proper header
       for the generated .pot file if multiple pagetemplate files
       were processed.

     - Collector #1477: TaintedString.strip() now implements the
       same signature as str.strip()

     - TAL: tal:on-error does not trap ConflictError anymore.

     - OFS.CopySupport: Enforced "Delete objects" permission during
       move (CMF Collector #259).

     - Removed DWIM'y attempt to filter acquired-but-not-aceessible
       results from 'guarded_getattr'.

     - Collector #1267: applied patch to fix segmentation faults on
       x86_64 systems

     - ZReST: the charset used in the rendered HTML was not set to the
       corresponding output_encoding property of the ZReST instance. In addition
       changing the encodings through the Properties tab did not re-render
       the HTML.

     - Collector #1234: an exception triple passed to LOG() was not
       propagated properly to the logging module of Python

     - Collector #1441: Removed headers introduced to make Microsoft
       webfolders and office apps happy, since they make a lot of
       standards-compliant things unhappy AND they trick MS Office
       into trying to edit office files stored in Zope via WebDAV even
       when the user isn't allowed to edit them and is only trying to
       download them.

     - Collector #1445: Fixed bad interaction between -p and -v(v)
       options to test.py that resulted in exceptions being printed
       when they shouldn't have been.

     - Collector #729: manage_main doesn't display the correct page title
       most of the time. It is not completely fixed but using title_or_id
       makes folders display the correct id as a fallback.

     - Collector #1370: Fixed html generated by Z Search interface.

     - Collector #1295: Fixed minor niglet with the Elvis tutorial.

     - added "version.txt" to setup.py to avoid untrue "unreleased version"
       messages within the control panel

     - Collector #1436: applied patch to fix a memory leak in
       cAccessControl.

     - Collector #1431: fixed NetBSD support in initgroups.c

     - Collector #1406: fixed segmentation fault by acquisition

     - Collector #1392: ExternalMethod ignored management_page_charset

     - unrestrictedTraverse() refactored to remove hasattr calls (which mask
       conflict errors) and for greater readability and maintainability.

     - Zope can now be embedded in C/C++ without exceptions being raised
       in zdoptions.

     - Collector #1213: Fixed wrong labels of cache parameters

     - Collector #1265: Fixed handling of orphans in ZTUtil.Batch

     - Collector #1293: missing 'address' parameters within one of the server
       sections raise an exception.

     - Collector #1345: AcceleratedHTTPCacheManager now sends the
       Last-Modified header.

     - Collector #1126: ZPublisher.Converters.field2lines now using
       splitlines() instead of split('\n').

     - Collector #1322: fixed HTML quoting problem with ZSQL methods
       in DA.py

     - Collector #1124: The ZReST product now uses the same reST encoding
       parameters from zope.conf as the low-level reStructuredText
       implementation.

     - Collector #1259: removed the "uninstall" target from the Makefile
       since the uninstall routine could also remove non-Zope files. Because
       this was to dangerous it has been removed completely.

     - Collector #1299: Fixed bug in sequence.sort()

     - Collector #1159: Added test for __MACH__ to initgroups.c so the
       initgroups method becomes available on Mac OS X.

     - Collector #1004: text,token properties were missing in
       PropertyManager management page.

     - Display index name on error message when index can't be used as
       'sort_on'.

     - PUT would fail if the created object had a __len__ = 0 (eg:
       BTreeFolder2) and fallback to _default_put_factory. Fix by
       checking if the returned object is None instead.

     - Collector #1160: HTTPResponse.expireCookie() potentially didn't
       when an 'expires' keyword argument was passed.

     - Collector #1289: Allow ZSQL methods to be edited via WebDAV.

     - WebDAV property values were not being properly escaped on
       'propstat'.

     - WebDAV 'supportedlock' was not checking if the object did
       implement the WriteLockInterface before returning it's
       value.

     - reStructuredText ignored the encoding settings in zope.conf

     - ObjectManager no longer raises string exceptions

     - Collector #1260: Testing/__init__.py no longer changes the
       INSTANCE_HOME.

     - App.config.setConfiguration() did not update the legacy source
       for debug_mode, Globals.DevelopmentMode.

     - Script (Python) objects now have a _filepath attribute, also
       used as the '__file__' global at runtime.  This prevents an
       import problem caused by the fix to #1074.

     - Minor usability tweaks:

       * Increased FindSupport meta type selection widgets
         height to 8 lines

     - The DateTime module did not recognize the settings for
       "datetime-format".

     - Stop testrunner.py from recursing into the 'build-base' directory
       created by setup.py.

     - Collector #1074: Change Scripts' __name__ to None

     - Range searches with KeywordIndexes did not work with record-style
       query parameters

     - Item_w__name__ now has a working getId() method

     - PageTemplateFile now using Item_w__name__ mixin, fixing
       its getId() and absolute_url() methods.

     - Only one VirtualHostMonster is allowed per container.

     - Collector #1133: TreeTag choked on Ids of type long.

     - Collector #1012: A carefully crafted compressed tree state
       could violate size limit.  Limit is no longer hardcoded.

     - Collector #1139: tal:attributes didn't escape double quotes.

     - Management interface of TopicIndexes has been completely broken

     - Collector #1129: Improper parsing of ISO8601 in DateTime.

     - Removed pervasive use of string exceptions (some may still be
       hiding in the woodwork, but all raise's with string literals are
       gone).

     - AccessControl.User used a misleading string exeception,
       'NotImplemented', which shadowed the Python builtin.

     - Collector #426: Inconsistent, undocumented error() method.

     - Collector #799: Eliminate improper uses of SCRIPT_NAME.

     - Collector #445: Add internal global declaration for Script bindings.

     - Collector #616: Make CONTEXTS available to TALES Python expressions.

     - Collector #1074: Give Script execution context a __name__

     - Collector #1095: Allow TAL paths starting with '/varname' as a
       preferred spelling for 'CONTEXTS/varname'.

     - Collector #391: Cut and paste now requires delete permissions.

     - Collector #331: Referenses to URL in manage_tabs was changed
       to REQUEST.URL to prevent accidental overriding.

     - Made the control panel properly reflect the cache-size setting
       of ZODB's object cache once again.

     - ConflictError was swallowed in ObjectManager by
       manage_beforeDelete and _delObject. This could break code
       expecting to do cleanups before deletion.

     - Python 2.3 BooleanType wasn't handled properly by ZTUtils
       marshalling and ZPublisher's converters.

     - Collector #1065: bin/ scripts didn't export HOME envars.

     - Collector #572: WebDAV GET protected by 'FTP Access' permission.
       Two new methods have been added to WebDAV resources, "manage_DAVget"
       and "listDAVObjects". These are now used by WebDAV instead of the
       earlier "manage_FTPget" and "objectValues". This separates the
       permissions, and allows WebDAV specific overriding of these methods.

     - Collector #904: Platform specific signals in zdaemon/Daemon.py
       (fixed by removing the "fossil" module from 2.7 branch and head).

     - Workaround for Collector #1081: The 'title' property for objects
       derived from OFS.Folder or PropertyManager can now be
       removed and replaced with a ustring property. This allows the usage
       of non-ISO-8859-1 or ASCII charsets

     - Collector #951: DateTime(None) is now equal to DateTime()

     - Collector #1056: aq_acquire() ignored the default argument

     - Collector #1087: ZPT: "repeat/item/length" did not work as documented
       in the Zope Book.

     - Collector #721: Entities in tal:attribute values weren't
       properly escaped.

     - Collector #851: Traversable.py: A bare try..except shadowed
       conflict errors

     - Collector #1058: Several fixes for PropertySheets when used
       outside ZClasses

     - Collector #1053: parseIndexRequest turned empty sequence of search
       terms into unrestricted search.

     - manage_tabs had a namespace problem with the acquisition of names from
       the manage_options variable resulting to acquire "target" and "action"
       from objects above in the hierachy.

     - PathIndex and TopicIndex are now using a counter for the number
       of indexed objects instead of using a very expensive calculation
       based on the keys of their indexes.

     - Collector #1039: Whitespace problem in Z2.log fixed

     - changed some bare try: except:'s in Shared.DC.ZRDB.Connection
       so that they now log exceptions that occur.

     - ObjectManager will now attempt to set Owner local role keyed
       to the user's id, rather than username.

  2.7.0b2

    Features added

     - New zopectl feature: adduser.  Instead of using the inituser
       mechanism, "zopectl adduser <name> <password>" will add a user
       with the 'Manager' role to your site.  This is useful both
       interactively and for packagers.

     - New top-level package: nt_svcutils.  This takes the place of
       the Zope.Startup.nt package to allow for reuse outside of Zope.

     - Renamed the "service file" for a Zope instance under Windows
       from ntservice.py to zopeservice.py to allow a ZEO server
       instance to share the same instance home as a Zope instance
       (the ZEO service file will be called zeoservice.py).

     - The TemporaryStorage module was moved from
       Products/TemporaryFolder to a new top-level package named
       tempstorage.

     - Split functionality of mkzopeinstance into two separate
       modules: mkzopeinstance.py and copyzopeskel.py.
       copyzopeskel.py can be used directly by packagers to install
       custom skeleton directories or mkzopeinstance can use a custom
       skeleton directory via the '--skelsrc' flag.

     - Added 'environment' and 'path' directives to config file directive
       list.  'environment' is a section which allows the user to specify
       environment variables within the config file.  'path' allows the
       user to specify additional directories to insert into sys.path
       when configuration is processed.

     - Moved temporary storage related files into their own module
       within lib/python, out of Products.TemporaryStorage.  This was
       necessary in order to prevent the configuration machinery from
       prematurely importing some modules that it didn't need to
       during startup (the transitive set of all imported modules
       within Products.TemporaryStorage).

     - Add a check to the configurator to ensure that the Python found
       has an expat parser.

     - The standard ProperyManager now includes the same label
       functionality as the CMF SimpleItemWithProperties object.
       By adding a 'label' entry to the property definition you
       can now display a prettier label for the property.

    Bugs fixed

     - The Products directory in an instance home was not
       automatically added to the Products.__path__ (it needed to be
       specified manually).  It is now automatically added at instance
       startup.

     - The Windows runzope.bat file generated by mkzopeinstance from
       the default skeleton directory now uses python.exe instead of
       pythonw.exe, so you can actually see output from the Zope
       process when you run it interactively.

     - backport of TAL fixes from z3

       * i18n and metal interactions

       * fix handling of nested translations with tal:content/replace
         and i18n:name

     - Collector #1017: reST has been broken

     - backward compatibility for i18n:attributes

       if items are separated with spaces and there are more than two items,
       all are treated as attributes plus deprecation warning

       if items are separated with spaces and there are two items :

       * i18n:attributes="value msg_id;" (with semicolon) will always be
         treated as <attr> <msg_id>

       * i18n:attributes="value title" will be treated as <attr> <attr>
         as long as title exist as attribute (both as static or in
         tal:attributes) plus deprecation warning

     - deny attributes being both part of tal:attributes
       and having a messageid in i18n:attributes

     - Fixed failing Zope.Startup tests caused by import of
       nonexistent Startup.getSchema function.

     - VHM: manage_edit has been broken

     - The container-class keyword to database sections
       didn't work.

     - ZConfig didn't report a line number and munged capitalization
       of replacement keys when a replacement error was provided.

     - log-to-stderr on startup will now emit messages to the console at
       the lowest logging level defined by any of the handlers in the
       eventlog section.

     - entirely removed warning when the starting user's umask is "too
       permissive".  it wasn't clear that it added any value under normal
       operations.

     - debug-mode config file option did not work.

     - ZClasses that subclassed ObjectManager that were created in
       earlier versions of Zope would not load under 2.6, due to
       the new Interfaces package. Added back a simple stub module
       and changed a constructor to allow these ZClasses to work.

     - Bugfix: if zopectl is run as the root user, the debug, run, and
       adduser commands will cause the Python process which performs
       those actions to switch users to the effective user.  This
       prevents ZODB index files, log files, etc. from being written
       as root, potentially preventing later startup by the effective
       user.

     - Bugfix: allow the zopectl process to ascertain the program that
       zdrun should run from the Zope config file.  This is necessary
       if the file is moved out of a "single-directory-as-instance"
       instance home.

     - Various fixes to content of ZopeTutorial to deal with URLs moving
       on new.zope.org (thanks to Stefane Fermigier).

     - Added optparse and textwrap modules to docutils package to prevent
       ReST barfage (AJ).

     - Added a sample zeoclient and tempstorage stanzas to the default
       config file (zope.conf.in).

     - Various tweaks to the dbtab configuration code (Shane).

     - Various fixes/enhancements to ZODB/ZEO (PythonLabs).

     - Removed 'inst/Zope.spec' Zope RPM spec file in favor of placing
       it in a separate internal ZC repository.  It will be available
       in the SRPM.

     - Fix for Collector 823 (XML RPC exception values were always
       converted to strings and thus turned into a Fault object).
       Thanks to Sandor Palfy for the patch.

     - Remove --zeo/-z flags from mkzopeinstance.py, as custom_zodb.py
       is no longer the preferred method of configuring custom
       storages now that we have DBTab in the core, and you should be
       able to create a custom skeleton dir with the right
       zope.conf.in that has a zeo client storage set up if you need
       to.

     - 'make sdist' now creates a file with an extension of '.tgz'
       rather than .'.tar.gz' (mainly to meet the expectations of
       Zope.org about file names).

     - moved 'zpasswd.py' into utilities directory in source tree.

  2.7.0b1

    Features added

     - zopectl command now has 'debug' and 'run' options.

     - the zodb_db section in zope.conf now accepts a 'connection-class'
       key that accepts a python dotted-path-name to use as the
       connection class for the database.

     - The ReST input and output encodings are now configured via the
       'rest-input-encoding' and 'rest-output-encoding' config file
       directives rather than the REST_INPUT_ENCODING and
       REST_OUTPUT_ENCODING environment variables.

     - Datetime-format settings are now configured via the
       'datetime-format' configuration file directive rather than the
       DATETIME_FORMAT environment variable.

     - Trusted proxies are now configured via the 'trusted-proxy'
       configuration file directive rather than the
       ZOPE_TRUSTED_PROXIES environment variable.

     - The maximum number of sockets that ZServer will open in order to
       service incoming connections can now be specified via the
       max-listen-sockets conf file parameter.

     - Shane Hathaway's DBTab product has been integrated.  The
       Control_Panel -> Databases tab now allows you to control all
       mounted databases.  You can add a mount point by editing the
       zope.conf file, adding a zodb_db section for the main database
       and other mounted databases, and choosing "ZODB Mount Point"
       from the Zope "Add" list.

     - DTML Methods and Documents supply a traceback supplement when called.

     - Windows installer contains NT/2K/XP service support on
       a per-instance-home basis.

     - zopectl command now has 'debug' and 'run' options.

     - the zodb_db section in zope.conf now accepts a 'connection-class'
       key that accepts a python dotted-path-name to use as the
       connection class for the database.

    Bugs Fixed

     - mkzopeinstance did not expand tildes in directory name input.

     - The 'configure' script did not work under Solaris sh.

     - The SiteErrorLog object did not ignore NotFound errors,
       which caused (mainly) useless messages to be kept in the log.

     - The addition of a linefeed to version.txt in lib/python caused
       Apache proxies to choke because the string was injected into
       a header including the linefeed.  This has been fixed.

     - Collector: #964: standard_error_message refers to looking into the
       HTML code for more information which is deprecated. Referring to
       the error log now.

     - Collector #893: Mailhost: munge_header has been broken for addresses
       containing the recipients full name

     - Zope's setup.py didn't include the ZEO.auth package.

     - Collector #628: Applied patch to fix several textarea resize
       problems.

     - Collector #953: fixed namespace collision with form_title in ZMI

     - Collector #342: Avoiding insertion of a BASE tag for file objects
       with content-type text/html

     - Windows installer properly deletes pyc/pyo files on uninstall.

     - Windows binary post-install quickstart page is now more
       informative.

     - Fixed a potential bug in ZTUtils.Tree.decodeExpansion where a
       potentially empty string was tested for it's first character; used
       .startswith for safety.

  2.7.0a1

    Features added

     - OFS: OrderSupport and OrderedFolder added. OrderSupport is a mixin class
       that adds the IOrderedContainer interface to ObjectManagers.
       OrderedFolder - meta_type 'Folder (Ordered)' - is a new Folder class
       using OrderSupport.
       (thanks to Stephan Richter for inspiration and some code)

     - Folder: Constructor now takes an optional 'id' argument.

     - Show known medusa servers in Control_Panel.

     - New startup and installation regime (./configure; make; make install
       instances use a config file, daemon is now a separate process).  See
       http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/InstallationAndConfiguration
       for more information.

     - New module: App.config.  New API for getting a configuration
       object.  This should be the preferred way for all code in Zope
       to get configured values for many settings.  For settings made
       available via this module, alternate locations are deprecated,
       though will to be supported for Zope 2.7.

     - Collector #435: Support for passwords encoded using MySQL's
       PASSWORD() function add to lib/python/AccessControl/AuthEncoding.py.

     - Collector #167: Support __getattr__ on cAccessControl PermissionRole
       objects to allow gathering of permission names for products like
       DocFinder and VerboseSecurity.

     - Added a new REQUEST method, getClientAddr(), to determine a clients
       IP address. Address restrictions in the user folder have been changed
       to use this method. By default the value returned by this method is the
       same as the initial value of REQUEST['REMOTE_ADDR']. Zope also has
       support for obtaining a more useful value from other headers if a
       front-end proxy is in use. See doc/ENVIRONMENT.txt for details.

     - DateTime module: added support to parse international dateformats. The
       Datetime constructor has a new "datefmt" parameter to enforce the
       parsing of a date as "us" or "international" date. The new field
       descriptor field descriptor "date_international" can be used to
       enforce this behaviour inside the ZPublisher. See also
       doc/ENVIRONMENT.txt to check with the DATETIME_FORMAT

     - KeywordIndex, FieldIndex and ZCTextIndex  are now able to index more
       than one attribute of an object. This removes the ties between the
       indexes ID and the attribute name to be indexed.

     - Integration of reStructuredText (reST) and the ZReST product
       by Richard Jones.  See doc/RESTRUCTUREDTEXT.txt for details.

     - Objects locked through WebDAV are now marked with a lock icon
       inside the ZMI.

     - Collector #741: Applied patch to provide better FTP error messages.

     - Made all PluginIndexes and ZCTextIndex use 'safe_callable',
       which is aware of extension classes that fill 'tp_callable'
       but don't define '__call__'.

     - Made KeywordIndex be more robust about receiving a value that
       is not a string or an iterable type.

    Bugs Fixed

     - Collector #954: clear() method of TopicIndex removed all filter sets
       instead of clearing them.

     - Collector #939: Fixed typo in TopicIndexes

     - Collector #937: UnicodeError exception available within PythonScripts

     - Collector #902: recursive Scripts were broken due to shared globals.

     - Product initialization would only consult a file named "version.txt"
       to read version information. Now it will check version.txt, VERSION.txt
       and VERSION.TXT.

     - Collector #928: DateIndex ignored timezones when indexing and
       querying

     - Collector #892: misleading error msg when initializing an OIBTree
       from a dict with a float value.  The message claimed that the
       dict's items didn't consist of 2-element tuples, but of course
       they do.  The TypeError now says "expected integer value".

     - Collector #882: delPropertySheet was broken due to a typo

     - Collector #683: WeDAV request without XML preamble
       were not recognized by Zope and raised an exception.

     - Index constructors were called without acquisition context of the
       calling object. This caused caller.getPhysicalPath() to fail for
       indexes depending on this information.

     - Collector #814: PathIndexes now uses IITreeSet instead of
       IISet. This should result in less memory usage.

     - Fixed a whitespace problem in Z2.log (AWStats failed to process
       Zope logfiles)

     - Collector #816: dtml-sendmail corrupted header if message was
       left blank.

     - Collector #790: WebDAV access is granted by default only
       to Managers and Authenticated users instead to Anonymous users.
       This restricts access to the Control_Panel and especially
       to the Products management to trusted users.

     - Rename, Cut & Delete operations on locked objects (WebDAV) are
       no longer permitted and will raise an exception. Copies of
       locked objects are copied without lock.

     - Collector #634: Image objects can now be rendered without border
       attribute by calling "image.tag(border='')".

     - Collector #695: Object IDs "." and ".." are no longer permitted.

     - Collector #771: ZCatalog failed to index DTML Document if the name
       of a catalog metadata was identical with the name of an acquired
       object.

     - Collector #686: intSets no longer lose their values.

     - Collector #685: Improved documentation explaining how, where and
       why security assertions should be placed in:
       lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/README.txt
       lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/module_access_examples.py

     - The ZEO unit tests and wo_pcgi.py didn't run on Windows if the path
       to the python executable included a space.

     - Some calls to os.system('chmod') has been replaced with the more
       portable os.chmod() call, to make install work properly on Windows.

     - Fixed an isinstance() check in SimpleItem on standard_error_message
       handling that would always break if the first argument was not
       an extension class because the second argument was a type.

     - Any write request could be tricked into writing into a version
       be setting a version cookie or by including a version name in
       the request.  Now we require the user to globally have
       permission to join or leave versions to run a request in a
       version.

    Backward incompatabilities

      - We no longer honor local security settings that would allow
        someone to join or leave versions unless the location of the
        settings is a folder directly or indirectly containing the
        user's user folder.

    Bugs Fixed

      - Collector #956: automatically installing Examples at startup
        could be a security risk.  Examples now must be installed
        explicitly by the user (thanks to Jamie Heilman and day0).

      - Collector #954: clear() method of TopicIndex removed all filter sets
        instead of clearing them.

      - Collector #882: Fixed typo in PropertySheets

      - Collector #939: Fixed typo in TopicIndexes

      - Collector #937: UnicodeError exception available within PythonScripts

      - Collector #902: recursive Scripts were broken due to shared globals.

      - Product initialization would only consult a file named "version.txt"
        to read version information. Now it will check version.txt, VERSION.txt
        and VERSION.TXT.

      - Make ZCTextIndex much less prone to generating conflict errors.
        Previously *any* concurrent updates would provoke a conflict.

      - Fix query performance and scalability bug in ZCTextIndex.

      - Collector #928: DateIndex ignored timezones when indexing and
        querying

      - Any write request could be tricked into writing into a version
        be setting a version cookie or by including a version name in
        the request.  Now we require the user to globally have
        permission to join or leave versions to run a request in a
        version.

      - Fixed a problem with potentially mis-acquiring 'func_code' in
        publisher BeforeTraverse hook.

      - Fix for issue 683: Image cache manager headers were not sent
        when an image request returned a 304 (in response to an if-mod-since
        request).

      - Made all PluginIndexes and ZCTextIndex use 'safe_callable',
        which is aware of extension classes that fill 'tp_callable'
    but don't define '__call__'.

      - Made KeywordIndex be more robust about receiving a value that
        is not a string or an iterable type.

      - Fixed incorrect docstring in OFSP/Image help.

      - Fixed unhelpful signal description.

