On 6/11/05, Andreas Jung lists@andreas-jung.com wrote:

Jim Fulton, Christian Theune, Tim Peters, Fred Drake Jr., Marc Hammond, Sidnei da Silva, Tres Seaver, Stefan Holek, Chris McDonough,

Don't forget that Andreas Jung character! This wouldn't have happened without his persistence and dedication.

Thanks, Andreas!

-Fred

Unfortunately I forgot to mention the whole Five team that contributed Five to Zope 2.8:

Martijn Faassen, Sidnei da Silva, Philipp von Weitershausen, Lennart Regebro

Forgetting to mention you was not intentional in any way...just the result of my bad memory...Sorry!

Andreas

--On 11. Juni 2005 08:51:01 +0200 Andreas Jung lists@andreas-jung.com wrote:

Hi all,

on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.0. You can download Zope 2.8.0 from

  http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.0/

Some new features of Zope 2.8:

• ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites.

• Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection.

• Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/)

For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release:

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.0/CHANGES.txt

See also:

http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView

**WARNING:** Due to the major changes in Extension Classes and ZODB there is a risk that some things are broken or do not work as they should. Backup your Data.fs **before** trying 2.8.0b2.

Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker:

http://collector.zope.org/Zope%22:http://collector.zope.org/Zope

For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see:

http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx

Thanks to everyone having contributed to this release (hopefully I did not miss any names):

Jim Fulton, Christian Theune, Tim Peters, Fred Drake Jr., Marc Hammond, Sidnei da Silva, Tres Seaver, Stefan Holek, Chris McDonough,

-- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)