Plone 3.0 released!

[Alexander Limi]

Plone is Python's leading Content Management System, and we are proud to  
announce the availability of version 3.0, the result of over a year of  
work by the Plone Team.

This release is the most user-friendly, powerful and highly anticipated
release of Plone ever, and has an amazing amount of new functionality.

PS: Help us spread the word!
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Even if you don't use Plone, help us show the world that there are CMSes  
out there that are not PHP-based! Login/register and vote for the Plone  
3.0 release story:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Plone_3_0_released


Some highlights of Plone 3.0
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- Full versioning support, history and reverting to older revisions

- Improved performance

- Inline (Ajax) editing

- Link and reference integrity checking

- Automatic locking and unlocking

- Improved handling of permissions and sharing

- Upgraded visual (WYSIWYG) content editor

- Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents

- Wiki support and multiple new mark-up formats

- Rules engine for content

- Strengthened security

For the full overview, see the Plone 3.0 feature list:
http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0.


Get Plone
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Download Plone 3.0 for all platforms here:
http://plone.org/download

Upgrading from a previous version of Plone? Detailed instructions can be
found in the Upgrade Manual:
http://plone.org/upgrade.


Web site updates
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Both the "Documentation section":/documentation and the "Add-on products
section":/products have been updated in time for the Plone 3.0 release —
it's now easier to find the documentation you need, as well as finding
products that support the new 3.0 release.


Books
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Another great thing about Plone 3.0 is that there is an up-to-date book
written by Martin Aspeli especially for this release. You can pre-order
the book now:
http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book


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Alexander Limi · http://limi.net