New in Plone 3.3 What to expect from Plone 4 Vitaliy Podoba http://quintagroup.com

New in Plone 3.3

What to expect from Plone 4

3.3 (Release candidate 2) (Apr 07, 2009) 11 Feature Enhancements (PLIPs)‏

PLIP || PL one I mprovement P roposal

1

#126: Link type should automatically redirect when accessed directly

Redirect Immediately to link target

2

#232: Resource Registries Improvements

Conditional Comments (IE Only)‏ IE Conditional Comment Field with value 'IE'

<!--[if IE]> <style type=&quot;text/css&quot; media=&quot;all&quot;>... <![endif]-->

<!--[if IE]>

<style type=&quot;text/css&quot; media=&quot;all&quot;>...

<![endif]-->

External Resources http://quintagroup.com/default.css

3

#234: Standardizing use of INavigationRoot

Portal Tabs

Breadcrumbs

Sitemap

Navigation Portlet

New : Fixed Search

4

#237: Minor i18n upgrades

PlacelessTranslationService 1.4.13 PloneLanguageTool 2.0

PlacelessTranslationService 1.5 Multiple message catalogs in the same domain

Multiple message catalogs in the same domain

PloneLanguageTool 3.0 A new content language-based negotiator A new sub-domain negotiator Option to restrict cookie negotiation to authenticated users Changed default for displaying flags Changed ITranslatable location

A new content language-based negotiator

A new sub-domain negotiator

Option to restrict cookie negotiation to authenticated users

Changed default for displaying flags

Changed ITranslatable location

5

#238: Disable inline editing by default

Before

Now

6

#239: Adapterise the Extensible Indexable Object Wrapper

Before

from Products.CMFPlone.CatalogTool import registerIndexableAttribute def customIndex(obj, portal, **kwargs): “”” some code goes here “”” registerIndexableAttribute('customIndex', customIndex)

Now

indexers.py: from interfaces import IPage from plone.indexer import indexer @indexer(IPage) def customIndex(object): “”” some code goes here “”” configure.zcml: <adapter name=&quot;customIndex&quot; factory=&quot;.indexers.customIndex&quot; />

7

#240: Improve locking configurability

Possibility to switch off locking Locking timeout = 10 minutes KSS action extends the lock every 5 minutes

Possibility to switch off locking

Locking timeout = 10 minutes

KSS action extends the lock every 5 minutes

lock_on_ttw_edit

Possibility to switch off locking Locking timeout = 10 minutes KSS action extends the lock every 5 minutes

Possibility to switch off locking

Locking timeout = 10 minutes

KSS action extends the lock every 5 minutes

8

#241: Clean up auto-sort, auto-order code

Removed not fully completed plone2.1 plip #3 Deleted: ATContentTypes/interface/autosort.py ATContentTypes/lib/autosort.py Cleaned-up ATCT Folder type

Deleted: ATContentTypes/interface/autosort.py ATContentTypes/lib/autosort.py

Cleaned-up ATCT Folder type

9

#243: Replace workflow history viewlet with content history viewlet

Before

Now

10

#246: View for rendering events as an iCalendar file

Before

@@ics_view collects events and returns them as an iCalendar file for: Plone root Folder Large Folder Topic

Plone root

Folder

Large Folder

Topic

11

#247: Automate ZCML Loading for Plone Plug-ins

Before <include package=”some.package” />

<include package=”some.package” />

Now z3c.autoinclude

Now setup(... entry_points=&quot;&quot;&quot; ... [z3c.autoinclude.plugin] target = plone ... “”” ...)‏

BONUS !!!

New favicon.ico that is in line with the new branding

Improved products installation story

Before Reinstall

Now Upgrade

A lot of bugs fixed due to regular Plone tune-up events http://plone-tuneup.ning.com

4 (Unreleased) (after early 2010)‏

Smaller. Faster. Easier.

Plone 4 will be primarily a feature based release, not time-based

Better page composition story (Plone Deco Proposal)‏

Proposal snapshot

Prototype snapshot http://www.fourdigits.nl/plone4uidemo/v16

Blocks: Grid layout Grid-based layout consisting of Panels consisting of Tiles which could be * transient or * persistent

Grid-based layout consisting of

Panels consisting of

Tiles which could be * transient or * persistent

Plone Deco Packages plone.blocks experimental.blocks plone.tiles plone.app.deco

plone.blocks

experimental.blocks

plone.tiles

plone.app.deco

For details Plone Deco Project Area http://code.google.com/p/plone-deco Plone Deco Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/plone-deco

Plone Deco Project Area http://code.google.com/p/plone-deco

Plone Deco Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/plone-deco

Noticeably increase performance

Hanno Schlichting: “The slogan today is: Plone is getting twice as fast with every release.”

The possibility to easily use a non-Archetypes based content types (e.g. Dexterity)‏

Dexterity is considered as an alternative (to Archetypes) way for creating Plone content types

For details Dexterity Project Area http://code.google.com/p/dexterity Dexterity Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/dexterity-development

Dexterity Project Area http://code.google.com/p/dexterity

Dexterity Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/dexterity-development

Improve technical base (Python 2.6 and WSGI)‏

plone-coredev buildout already requires Python 2.6 http://dev.plone.org/plone/changeset/26393

Plone versus Python 3 Possible Scenario :-) http://blog.hannosch.eu/2008/12/plone-versus-python-3.html

Plone is ...

Plone trunk is already running as WSGI application by means of repoze.zope2

Right now there are 22 Plone 4 PLIPs in plone trac project http://dev.plone.org/plone/report/24

Which mostly aim to simplify Plone base

Simplification 1 Remove external editor support Remove wicked support Remove CMFActionIcons Do not ship with NuPlone anymore Merge GroupUserFolder into PlonePAS Plone core should no longer use portal_skins Retire CMFQuickInstaller

Remove external editor support

Remove wicked support

Remove CMFActionIcons

Do not ship with NuPlone anymore

Merge GroupUserFolder into PlonePAS

Plone core should no longer use portal_skins

Retire CMFQuickInstaller

Simplification 2 Make KSS optional Provide a &quot;Plone Base&quot; distribution Replace SecureMailHost with Zope mailhost Get rid of base_properties No longer use Kupu as our default visual editor Remove PlacelessTranslationService Focus on minimized package dependencies

Make KSS optional

Provide a &quot;Plone Base&quot; distribution

Replace SecureMailHost with Zope mailhost

Get rid of base_properties

No longer use Kupu as our default visual editor

Remove PlacelessTranslationService

Focus on minimized package dependencies

To be continued ...

For details http://plone.org

http://plone.org