Since Plone provides a lot of useful functionality by default, many customers use the standard content types. Plone 2.1 has significantly improved these.

• Content can refer to other content with an easy interface for authors.
• Images now support scaling and thumbnail generation.
• Events now support the iCal and vCal standards for desktop calendar integration.
• Content supports multilingual sites out-of-the-box using LinguaPlone.
• All content types are now Archetypes-based, giving them a rich set of additional services like transformations and validation.

In addition, the new content types can be extended by customers who need extra fields and features.

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