Here they are, as promissed yesterday.

  S.

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CPS 3.4.0beta1 released
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The first beta of CPS 3.4.0 has been tagged yesterday and released on:

http://www.cps-project.org/static/src/CPS-3.4.0beta1.tar.gz

Prerequisites
-------------

Zope 2.9.0 is mandatory.

(Since Zope 2.9.0 mandates the use of Python 2.4.2, Python 2.4.2 is also
mandatory.)

Some third-party Python librairies may also be needed, depending on the
components you will want to activate on instanciation.

For more information, check:

http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/INSTALL.txt
http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/README.txt

What's new ?
------------

The most important innovation since CPS 3.3.8 is the switch from the
imperative installer CPSInstaller to the declarative installer GenericSetup,
included in CMF 1.6.

(See: http://svn.zope.org/GenericSetup/trunk/README.txt?rev=41338&view=markup
for background information on GenericSetup).

BTW: Some specific CPS extensions (CPSMailAccess, a webmail, and
CPSSharedCalendar, a calendaring solution) were already based on the Zope 3
component architecture, through the Five product. GenericSetup also uses Five,
and ZCML directives have started to appear in various places of the CPS code.

Many bugs and issues have been closed since CPS 3.3.8, see:

http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/query?status=closed&milestone=CPS%203.4.0

Upgrading
---------

In any case, DON'T DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION SITE. Make backups first,
or run the procedure on a copy.

If you are running a recent version of CPS, go to portal_setup at
the root of your CPS (from the ZMI) and see, from the "Upgrades" tab,
if some upgrades need to be run.

If you are running an older version (no portal_setup), start by adding a "CPS
Setup Tool" (not a "Generic Setup Tool") from the ZMI add menu before running
the upgrades.

How you can help ?
------------------

We'd like you to try and test CPS 3.4.0beta1 and report any bugs you may
find on the trac bug tracker: 

http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/report/13

Since the most recent part of the CPS code is the GenericSetup installer, and
since GenericSetup is still a young framework, this is probably the place were
most issues live.

Future roadmap
--------------

A new default UI is being worked on in a branch and will be integrated
in the second beta. For more info, see:

http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/thibaut-soulcie/2006_01_17_new-cps-default-theme/

or more recent blog posts on
http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/thibaut-soulcie/

About CPS
---------

CPS is the most complete open source enterprise content management (ECM)
platform.

It is based on the Zope application server, the CMF content management
framework, is the result of important CMS, ECM and workflow projects carried
out in the public administration and the private sector, and of the
collaboration of dozens of open source developers.

For more information:

http://www.cps-project.org/
http://svn.nuxeo.org/

For technical information about this release, see:

http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/doc/tech-notes.txt

Thanks
------

For the CPS core development team, I'd like to express our gratitude to all the
people that have been involved in this process so far, and to the Python / Zope
/ CMF developers communities that make our work possible. I'm convinced that
what we will deliver in a few weeks (CPS 3.4.0 final) will be trully awesome.

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