DateRangeIndexes blew up when attempting to store a date far in the future ( > Y2038 ).  This is a workaround.  The real fix would be to come up with a different conversion algorithm or to use OOBTrees to store datum.

configuration setting

we get the port number we thought we had

Add <warnfilter> section, which allows you to configure Python warning filters in zope.conf.  Useful for suppressing the USELESS DeprecationWarnings that emanate from TALGenerator wrt i18n.

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.

Not sure if this should be ported to the Zope 2.7 branch.

configuration file can be used for both the runzeo and zeoctl scripts.
This makes it easier to keep all the configuration needed to support the
ZEO server process in a single file.
For more explanation of the changes, see
http://zope.org/Members/fdrake/WikiBlog/ZEOServerConfiguration

objects since the value of their str() is not part of their API, and can
vary between releases.

Update AccessControl package to deal with various forms of Unicode and add some tests to make sure.  This fixes Collector #1034.

Continuing on #572. manage_DAVget is now used from the WebDAV source port as well as the standard HTTP port.

prefix while using Expat in namespace mode; this violates the "Prefix
Declared" namespace constraint.  Expat 1.95.7 now checks this
constraint properly, so raises an exception.

  with the revived CVS key management system.

     - 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

and replaced with a ustring property

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.

Make 'publisher-profile-file' configuration file setting work.  Note that the environment variable "PROFILE_PUBLISHER" has been banished with this change.  We also change the core of Publish.py to not conditionally define functions in order to have a bit more control over the process.

- rearranged order

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

     - Collector #951: DateTime(None) now raises a proper SyntaxError

       in the Zope Book.