Zope Corporation Releases Zope 2.6.1

Zope Corporation Releases Zope 2.6.1

First Community Release Validates Open Source Model

FEBRUARY 11, 2003 Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.6.1, the 
latest version of the award-winning open source application server. The new 
release represents the successful global collaboration of community developers, 
as it is the first to contain a majority of enhancements from the Zope 
community.

"This is the first Zope release where I have have been empowered to add my Zope 
improvements directly into the product," says Toby Dickenson, a major 
contributor to the new release. "It is that directness which has been the key 
to capturing so many changes. I have just been doing the same job I have always 
done, but I can now do it in a way that benefits the whole community 
immediately."

Zope 2.6.1 has improved internationalization and translation support for page 
templates and enhanced full-text indexing, with faster results and better 
handling of world languages. System administrators will appreciate the improved 
OS signal handling and log rotation support. High volume web sites will benefit 
from improved object cache control, providing better performance with lower 
memory usage.

"This release shows that Zope is becoming a global product," says Sven 
Guttmann, Senior Consultant at arvato systems GmbH, a Bertelsmann AG 
company. "At Bertelsmann, we have a major internal website with 50,000 new XML 
articles per day. We gain much value from the contributions of Zope developers 
and we also contribute back. This model for open source development clearly is 
working."

"Among all the open source projects at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young France, a big 
part of them are based on Zope," says Mickael Remond, open source officer at 
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. "The Zope community is very productive, and the 
standard features allow us to develop a large part of the functions the clients 
are asking for. Our development teams quickly learned the Zope development 
process and are now up-to-speed in developing Zope applications."

Zope 2.6.1 can be downloaded from the Zope.org website . With this release, 
Linux and Solaris binary builds now include Python 2.1.3 with large file 
support, providing pre-packaged support for large site deployments.

About Zope Zope is a leading open source application server, specializing in 
content management, portals, and custom applications. Since Zope Corporation 
introduced Zope as an open source product in 1998, it has become the platform 
of choice for content publishers, managers, and application developers. As an 
open source product, Zope comes with complete source code and no software 
licensing fees. Zope is managed by the global Zope community, with thousands of 
developers and companies participating worldwide. More information, including 
the Zope source code, is available at www.zope.org.

Press Contact Paul Everitt, Zope Europe Association, paul@zope-europe.org