Commit d18ba4e6 authored by 's avatar

Updated blurb about new security and ownership

parent 476bbea9
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Features Changed
- Server side trojan issue fixed.
- Added new security policy architecture.
- Added formal ownership to support the default security
policy.
- Added a new security policy architecture and object ownership
to address the server side trojan issue. The new architecture
cleaned up various places where Zope code did authorization
checks. A side effect of the new policy is that it is a bit
more strict than it used to be - objects without explicit
protection to which access was previously allowed will now
be denied. There is a new declarative method for providing
access to such objects, which has been applied to certain
previously unprotected Zope objects that DTML writers are
accustomed to having access to. See the SecurityPolicy
wiki pages on Zope.org for further information.
- Added a new online help system. Help is now available for
standard Zope objects. Zope developers can add help for their
Python Products and Control Panel Products. See HELPSYS.txt
- Added logic to increase the Python interpreter "check interval"
which provides an average 20-50% performance improvement for
that should provide at least a 20% performance improvement for
most Zope sites. Also added a new -i option to z2.py so that
Zope users can pass in alternate values (the default is 120)
for the check interval. This lets users experiment and tune
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