Third beta of Plone 3 released
By Bryan - Posted on 10 May 2007
Plone 3 beta 3 was released on Wednesday of this week. The announcement posted at Plone.org also invited users, administrators, and developers to help test the new software. Plone 3, built on the Zope application server, is nearing a year of development . By the time the final version of Plone 3 is released you should see the following new features included in the content management system.
- Full versioning, roll-back capabilities, in-place staging (ie. working copy support) and locking for all content.
- Inline editing of content using Ajax.
- Link integrity checking and automatic handling of moved or renamed content.
- Several new workflows examples/presets included by default: Simple Web Publishing workflow, Intranet workflow, Community Site workflow
- Content rules engine.
- Wiki-style linking support.
- New portlets infrastructure and management UI.
- OpenID authentication support.
- User interface and control panel improvements.
- New dedicated Contributor/Reader/Editor roles, as well as a "logged in users" pseudogroup.
- An additional new theme "NuPlone"
About this CMS Enthusiast
Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch.
Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government. Away from the computer he enjoys his family, bicycling, camping, and the outdoors.
