Plone is Python's leading Content Management System, and we are proud to announce the availability of version 3.0, the result of over a year of work by the Plone Team.
This release is the most user-friendly, powerful and highly anticipated release of Plone ever, and has an amazing amount of new functionality. PS: Help us spread the word! ============================ Even if you don't use Plone, help us show the world that there are CMSes out there that are not PHP-based! Login/register and vote for the Plone 3.0 release story: http://digg.com/tech_news/Plone_3_0_released Some highlights of Plone 3.0 ============================ - Full versioning support, history and reverting to older revisions - Improved performance - Inline (Ajax) editing - Link and reference integrity checking - Automatic locking and unlocking - Improved handling of permissions and sharing - Upgraded visual (WYSIWYG) content editor - Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents - Wiki support and multiple new mark-up formats - Rules engine for content - Strengthened security For the full overview, see the Plone 3.0 feature list: http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0. Get Plone ========= Download Plone 3.0 for all platforms here: http://plone.org/download Upgrading from a previous version of Plone? Detailed instructions can be found in the Upgrade Manual: http://plone.org/upgrade. Web site updates ================ Both the "Documentation section":/documentation and the "Add-on products section":/products have been updated in time for the Plone 3.0 release — it's now easier to find the documentation you need, as well as finding products that support the new 3.0 release. Books ===== Another great thing about Plone 3.0 is that there is an up-to-date book written by Martin Aspeli especially for this release. You can pre-order the book now: http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book -- Alexander Limi · http://limi.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
