CMFEditions 1.0rc1 (Release candidate)

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This is not a final release. Experimental releases should only be used for testing and development. Do not use these on production sites, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

For additional information about this project, please visit the project page.

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Release Notes

Tested with	Plone 2.5.1, Plone 2.1.4, Plone 2.1.3
State	Release candidate
License	GPL
Release Manager	gregweb

Target Audiences

• Plone Integrators: You need to version content in your Plone site. CMFEditions is nearly production ready. Actually there are users using pre 1.0alpha3 svn checkouts in production.
• Plone Developers: You've special use cases to fullfill. CMFEditions has been designed for extensibility and has well defined extension API's. Please contact us over the mailing list.

State

With CMFEditions 1.0beta1 we *continue stabilizing* the current feature set. No new feature will be added till the 1.0final.

A Note if you like to upgrade from an Alpha

With the 1.0beta1 the storage layout has slightly changed and migration code was added. Unfortunately the migration doesn't work correctly. So for the moment users with productive data using an 1.0alpha or earlier shall not upgrade to this beta release! You have to wait for a future release (probably after the 1.0 final).

Features

• Out of the box versioning for Plone 2.1 and Plone 2.5 (standard content types)
• support for folderish content types
• basic support for Archetypes content types
• basic purging support (tested for non folderish and non referenced content types only, enabling is still hidden in the ZMI)
• strong architectural support for very complex content types (this was the primary goal from the beginning. Plone product expert knowledge necessary.
• replaceable storage (the storage API is quite simple)
• Translated into French, German, Danish, Polish
• ...

For additional details please consult the README.txt in the products root folder.

Credits

CMFEditions would not have happened without:

• the Goldegg Sprint 2003 which braught me together with Alberto to start with CMFEditions (which was a this time a staging solution)
• Alberto Berti with his knowledge of Zope Version Control and writing the archetypes support
• Oxfam which helped resurrecting CMFEditions after a year of inactivity
• The reflab guys (Vincenzo, Francesco, Riccardo) who organized the resurrecting, organized the Pisa Sprints and have also done most work on the user interface, adding tests, fixing bugs, etc.
• Alec Mitchel who added versioning policies and kept alive CMFEditions in 2005 while I had to focus on different things
• Grégoire Weber (me) who did the initial coding and is the responsible for the architecture and fundamental concepts
• Sune Broendum Woeller for fixing bugs in the AT support
• Francesco Ciriaci for providing the documentation on plone.org
• Robert Rottermann for sponsoring purge support
• Duncan Booth, Sylvain Thenault, Tomek Meka, Varun Rastogi, Rob Miller

It was a nice experience that from time to time people just started trying out CMFEditions adding missing features and doing bug fixing.

For a full list of all contributors and sponsors see the CREDITS.txt file in the download.