Last week, Plone 3.0 was released.  Plone is the infamous content management system that runs on the Python-based Zope application server.   The install of Plone is known to be very easy with Plone, Python, and Zope already packaged together in the installer.

Highlights to the new features/improvements in Plone 3.0 that the Plone team would like to stress via their announcement are listed below.   I provided links to further details on those features I thought needed a better explanation or were just too exciting to leave alone.

• Full version 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 (via Kupu)
  
• Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents (you can search inside the documents!!!)
  
• Wiki support and multiple new mark-up formats
• Rules engine for content (Event Trigger)
  
• Strengthened security

A full feature list can be found by clicking here.  Now go get Plone 3.0 and give it a try by installing it today!