New in Plone 3.3. What to expect from Plone 4

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

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

PLIP || PL one I mprovement P roposal

#126: Link type should automatically redirect when accessed directly

Redirect Immediately to link target

#232: Resource Registries Improvements

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

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

#234: Standardizing use of INavigationRoot

Portal Tabs

Breadcrumbs

Sitemap

Navigation Portlet

New : Fixed Search

#237: Minor i18n upgrades

PlacelessTranslationService 1.4.13 PloneLanguageTool 2.0

PlacelessTranslationService 1.5
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

#238: Disable inline editing by default

Before

#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)

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

#240: Improve locking configurability

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

#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

#243: Replace workflow history viewlet with content history viewlet

Before

#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

#247: Automate ZCML Loading for Plone Plug-ins

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

Now z3c.autoinclude

Now setup(... entry_points=""" ... [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

Plone Deco Packages
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

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

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

Simplification 2
Make KSS optional
Provide a "Plone Base" 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

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New in Plone 3.3. What to expect from Plone 4

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