The Plone Content Management System (core)
Project description
About Plone
Plone is a user friendly Content Management System running on top of Python, Zope and the CMF.
It benefits from all features of Zope/CMF such as: RDBMS integration, Python extensions, Object Oriented Database, Web configurable workflow, pluggable membership and authentication, Undos, Form validation, amongst many many other features. Available protocols: FTP, XMLRPC, HTTP and WEBDAV Turn it into a distributed application system by installing ZEO.
Plone shares some of the qualities of Livelink, Interwoven and Documentum. It aims to be the open source out-of-the-box publishing system.
What is Plone?
Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.
Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.
Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.
Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3C’s AAA rating for accessibility.
Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license used by Linux. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.
Plone is supported. There are over three hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and a multitude of companies that specialize in Plone development and support.
Plone is extensible. There is a multitude of add-on products for Plone to add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.
Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.
Technical overview
Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don’t need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.
Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.
By default, Plone stores its contents in Zope’s built in transactional object database, the ZODB. There are products and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem files, etc.
Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other platforms; double-click installers are available for Windows and Mac OS X, and RPM packages are available for Linux. For full information, see the plone.org product page.
Changelog
4.2.6 (2013-08-14)
Applied security fixes from PloneHotfix20130618:
Protected methods on the ZCatalog.
Added missing module security declarations.
Sanitize url in isURLInPortal.
Check ‘Set own password’ permission in mailPassword.
Prevent the Zope request from being traversed.
Protected sendto method.
Sanitize input to spamProtect script.
[davisagli]
Get portal_discussion properly with getToolByName. [maurits]
Applied petschki’s patch which fixes javascript error on enabled ‘mark special links’ option, fixes #12440 [vangheem]
Remove reference to unimplemented ‘make_private’ transition in simple_publication_workflow. [danjacka]
Fail nicely when pasting a deleted item (https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13337) [khink]
Fail nicely when userid is not provided to mail_password script. [esteele]
Add indexer for location so metadata is included in catalog [vangheem]
4.2.5 (2013-03-05)
Link advanced search form in depraceted search.pt to new @@search, fixes #13451 [maartenkling]
Allow the Content-Type header to be set in registered_notify_template.pt [esteele]
Extract RegistrationTool’s sending of registration emails so that it can be more easily overridden. [esteele]
Fix an error during password reset introduced by changes in PloneHotfix20121106. [esteele]
Add event to fix products installed with latest keyword activated by default. Event finds new products installed with the latest keyword and updates them to the last profile version. [eleddy]
Update text for changing force change password to reference site title instead of Registry Settings. Fixes ticket #13367 [abutton]
Add event to trigger when a reordering is happening. Without this collective.solr and maybe other alternative indexes are kind of lost [do3cc]
4.2.4 (2013-01-17)
Call pas.searchUsers with the ‘name’ argument instead of ‘login’. ‘name’ is the officially supported way according to the PAS interface. [maurits]
4.2.3 (2012-12-15)
Cleaned javascripts from plone_ecmascript of jslint warnings [ichimdav]
Add various security fixes based on PloneHotfix20121106. [davisagli]
Pass minute_step to date_components_support_view.result(). See https://dev.plone.org/ticket/11251 [gbastien]
Fix form_tabbing.js so it stays on the same fieldset when an Archetypes edit form is submitted and returns to itself. [davisagli]
Use prefixed ids for popup overlays [maartenkling]
Fix compatible hide fieldset legend for IE6/7/8 in form_tabbing.js [maartenkling]
Improve error handling on paste action. If it is a real error, the error gets shown and logged. [do3cc]
Changes to dependencies when creating a new site (plone-final) to fix #11997. [keul]
Revealed hidden features for sorting folders (#11317). [keul]
Don’t swallow exceptions on object_paste and folder_paste (#9365). [gaudenz]
4.2.2 (2012-10-15)
Do not block right-side portlets in Members folder on site creation. This fixes https://dev.plone.org/ticket/10764 [polyester]
Fix prefs_install_product_readme so files with non-ascii characters are rendered. This fixes https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12342 [ericof]
Fix StringIO module security so it can still be imported from restricted code in Zope 2.13.17+. [davisagli]
Make sure the portal_registry setting for ResourceRegistries bundles gets installed. [davisagli]
Filter out non existing types in getUserFriendlyTypes. This avoids an error on the search form when a no longer existing portal_type is still in the catalog. [maurits]
We can safely move the MAX_TITLE to 50 and even move up MAX_DESCRIPTION 150 refs #11321 [maartenkling]
Remove inline styles, they do nothing, add class so someone can style it when they like refs #12438 [maartenkling]
Show forget password when entering wrong credentials refs #12463 [maartenkling]
Remove h3 to make consistent html refs #11344 [maartenkling]
Fix ‘Add New’ on Users/Groups Overviews shows overlay when clicking anywhere in form #12201 [maartenkling]
Fix events_listing #12477 [maartenkling]
Fix form_tabbing, to stay on current tab on submitting form [maartenkling]
4.2.1.1 (2012-08-23)
Fixed i18n of image view improvement introduced in 4.2.1. [vincentfretin]
Ensure some transient dependencies don’t vanish in the 4.2 series, just because some libraries get updated and nobody declares the dependency anymore. Same as in the Plone package: zope.copypastemove, zope.app.component, zope.app.container, zope.app.publisher. [maurits]
4.2.1 (2012-08-11)
Fix: do not display ‘file content’ on a file view if there is no file. [thomasdesvenain]
Improve image view:
Add a download button.
Display View button only if image is a web format (jpeg, png, gif…)
[thomasdesvenain]
zope.globalrequest is a required dependency on tests. [hvelarde]
Remove content-core ID from login_form. This removes the duplicate ID that occurs on a page when using the login overlay. This fixes https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12439 [cwainwright]
4.2.0.1 (2012-07-02)
Add docstring to SkinTool’s method to allow them being called from the ZMI. [erral]
4.2 (2012-06-29)
Add upgrade step to install the CMFEditions component registry bases modifier. [rossp]
Make redirection_view/attempt_redirect fall back to nothing in default_error_message template. If plone.app.redirector gets a URL with special characters, OOBTree.get raises a UnicodeDecodeError and the template fails. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12976. [timo]
Fix jquery.highlightsearchterms.js to not render arbitrary js. [vangheem]
4.2rc2 (2012-05-31)
Check the existence of a portal_type attribute before accessing it to construct navigation URLs. This avoids an exception when constructing breadcrumb navigation for search results if the result is a ‘Discussion Item’ as the parent Conversation object does not have a portal_type attribute. [gaudenz]
For event view template, changed headerless table to headings and divs for better accessibility. See bug #13181 [hmharter]
Add translatable js message for closing popup boxes. Part of fix for http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12122 [smcmahon]
Handle server redirects during login via popup by detecting change in base. Fixed by incorporating zenwryly’s patch, http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12029 [smcmahon]
calculate the dynamic fontsize in s5_slides.js (Presentation Mode) in em, not px. This for WCAG 2.0 compliance. See http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12902 [polyester]
When adding, changing or removing skins, automatically recook all resource registries, to keep theme bundles in-sync. This mirrors the event subscriber support used in plone.app.registry for the same purpose. [hannosch]
Let the RR export/import steps depend on the skins tool and plone.app.registry steps, as either of them might create new theme bundles [hannosch]
Hide Kupu base profile on Plone site creation screen. [hannosch]
PEP 8 (ignoring W602, W604, E301, E302, E501 and E701). [hvelarde]
Deprecated aliases were replaced on tests. [hvelarde]
Ensure multiple tabbed forms on the same page work when number of tabs is greater than threshold. [davidjb]
Remove deprecated jq reference from form tabbing JavaScript. [davidjb]
Remove incorrect line of form tabbing JavaScript which broke forms with more than 6 tabs. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12877 [davidjb]
Add event to fix products installed with latest keyword activated by default. Event finds new products installed with the latest keyword and updates them to the last profile version. [eleddy]
4.2rc1 (2012-05-07)
Fix an outdated “Send this” form handler property reference. [rossp]
removed search_form-template form plone_deprecated-skin. Use collective.searchform if you need this functionality. [tom_gross]
Use plone.batching for all batches (PLIP #12235) [tom_gross]
Re-apply PLIP 10901 to table_sort.js, fixing a bug with reversing sort on the first column. [mj]
Stop filtering folder_listing to the types from @@plone_portal_state/friendly_types, since that excludes non-searchable types rather than non-listable types. [davisagli]
PloneControlPanel’s enumConfiglets no longer returns invisible configlets. [esteele]
Hide the (old) Collections control panel by default for new sites. [esteele]
Use getId() instead of title_or_id() for displaying which items get deleted, to avoid unicode error Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12765 [spereverde]
Allow form tabbing to be used across different DOM documents. [rossp]
Hide left column in prefs_main_template when user does not have access to configlets. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12572 [gotcha]
Hide left column in prefs_main_template when user does not have access to configlets. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12572 [gotcha]
Make MigrationTool.coreVersions() check for Pillow as well as PIL and PILwoTK. Version will report as “PIL 1.7.6 (Pillow)”. Closes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12158 [smcmahon]
Decode id and bad characters in check_id script with default_encoding to prevent UnicodeDecodeError when bad characters contains non-ascii letters. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12525 [pingviini]
Re-apply PLIP 10901 to table_sort.js, fixing a bug with reversing sort on the first column. [mj]
Add keyword ‘latest’ to metadata.xml’s version tag, which then looks for the highest numbered profile that is registered and pins that to the upgrade step. This means that the version field in metadata.xml only has to be set to ‘latest’ once and then it automatically searches for the highest numbered profile. [eleddy]
4.2b2 (2012-02-09)
Changed link from search to @@search for the “More” link in livesearch_reply. [vincentfretin]
Notify ObjectModifiedEvent when a content title is modified through action > rename. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12460 [thomasdesvenain]
Fixed some mail tests in combination with five.pt. [maurits]
Do not display the author contact form when the logged in user does not have an email address. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/12258 [maurits]
4.2b1 (2011-12-05)
Define a ZCML feature called plone-42 in addition to the existing plone-4 and plone-41 to be used in conditional ZCML registrations. [vincentfretin]
Allow “Site Administrator to add keywords” [kleist, suggested by keul]
IE critical fix on toggle select and form submit helpers. [thomasdesvenain]
Fixed the two high priority scenarios (global sections viewlet and nav portlet) of http://dev.plone.org/ticket/11189. [fulv]
Call the view to unlock an item on unload synchronously, so that the call succeeds on Webkit browsers. This closes http://dev.plone.org/ticket/7885 [davisagli]
Remove uneeded kss debugging code [jfroche]
Allow users with the Manage Users permission to change the login name of other users; specifically this allows them to change the email address when this is used as login name. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11255 [maurits]
Removed the ‘What’ row in the event view that displayed the keywords; this is already handled by the keywords viewlet. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/10818 [maurits]
Make control panel action GS export return actions alphabetically since there is no other natural ordering. [ggozad]
Fixed folder_listing template so that listing macro can be used outside of folder_listing. [thomasdesvenain]
Fix PloneTool.changeOwnershipOf to not pass MemberData to the underlying Owned.changeOwnership, but a plain User object only. [stefan]
Fixed bug that treated ids of objects outside the portal, but on the acquisition path, as reserved. Fixeѕ http://dev.plone.org/ticket/10547 [rochecompaan]
4.2a2 - 2011-08-25
AuthenticatedUsers group is used for local roles etc, and is not the same as Authenticated role. Thus, it can not be optimized away in catalog queries. [tesdal]
getFolderContents only sets b_size if batching is true. [do3cc]
4.2a1 - 2011-08-08
Added hidden year/month/day/hour/minute/ampm labels to calendar macros. Part of a form accessibility cleanup. [smcmahon]
Removed registration of the input-label.js from the portal_javascript tool. Those with a desperate need to support the ‘placeholder’ text functionality in the obsolete browsers are free to re-register the script in their own instances. [spliter]
Deprecated input-label.js — instead we are using the HTML5 ‘placeholder’ attribute on the input fields. [spliter]
Deprecated IEFixes.css after we have introduced Modernizr and removed it’s GS registration. References http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11300 [spliter]
Added Modernizr 2 library. References http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11300 [spliter]
Switch to HTML5 doctype. References http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11300 [spliter]
Include plone.app.collection and related packages. Refs http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/10902 [esteele]
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