6.8. Upgrading Plone 3.x to 4.0

Upgrading your site and your products from Plone 3 to Plone 4.

  1. Updating a custom Plone 3 buildout for Plone 4
  2. Updating add-on products for Plone 4
    1. Detecting Plone 4
    2. No more global definitions in templates
    3. The action icons tool (portal_actionicons) has been deprecated
    4. No more Zope 2 interfaces
    5. Miscellaneous import changes
    6. AdvancedQuery has been removed from Plone core
    7. Validators
    8. Manual calls to translate
    9. Use plone.app.blob-based BLOB storage
    10. Add views for content types
    11. 'MailHost.secureSend' is now deprecated; use 'send' instead
    12. Portlets Generic Setup syntax changes
    13. Updating Plone 3 themes for Plone 4
    14. New users and groups functionality
    15. Make sure your templates are valid XML
    16. document_byline and some other macros are now viewlets
    17. No longer bin/instance test - use zc.recipe.testrunner
    18. Vocabulary Directive now replaced by Utilities
    19. Folder implementation changes
    20. Empty /Control_Panel/Products using Plone 4
  3. Deprecated Templates Checklist
  4. Email address-based login
  5. Upgrading Caching Products

All content on one page (useful for printing, presentation mode etc.)