Last week, Plone 3.0 was released. Plone is the 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
Now go get Plone 3.0 and give it a try by installing it today!