Help Test Plone 3.3

Plone 3 release manager Wichert Akkerman has tagged the first beta release of Plone 3.3. It's time to test! Wichert's anticipating a short beta cycle, so don't wait.

If you've already got a Plone 3.2 installation, you may test 3.3b1 by just changing your buildout configuration's version extend specification from:

extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/3.2.x/versions.cfg

to:

extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/3.3b1/versions.cfg

and running buildout. This is a beta, so make sure this is a test instance.

Unified and OS X installers are also available at on the 3.3 release page.

As with previous Plone 3+ releases, this release is expected to have a high degree of compatibility with other 3.x releases. No add-ons should break.

Improvements in Plone 3.3 include:

Link type should automatically redirect when accessed directly

Links should be capable of doing automatic redirection.

Resource Registries Improvements

Allow Resource Registries to use conditional comments for CSS to bring the IEFixes.css into the registry and allow external references to resources for all registries.

Standardizing our use of INavigationRoot

Plone has the INavigationRoot marker interface which supports rooting your tabs, navigation, breadcrumbs, sitemaps and searches to a specific container inside of a portal which itself is a INavigationRoot. Some areas of this need to be cleaned up and standardized to follow a consistent convention.

Minor i18n upgrades

Include PloneLanguageTool 3.0 and PTS 1.5.

Disable inline editing by default

The current inline editing behaviour as introduced in Plone 3 was a mistake: it is a cool technology to show off, but in practice accidental clicks very frequently lead to unwanted edit-screens.

Adapterise the Extensible Indexable Object Wrapper

Make it easier to register ExtensibleIndexableObjectWrapper attributes with adapters

Improve locking configurability

This PLIP proposes to a) make it harder to accidentally leave content items in a locked state, and b) make it easier to adjust the lock timeout or disable locking entirely.

Clean up auto-sort, auto-order code

Clean up, i.e. remove all code related to auto-sorting / auto-ordering folder contents as this feature was implemented for Plone 2.1, but never got enabled. Basically this proposes to revert http://plone.org/products/atcontenttypes/roadmap/3

Replace workflow history viewlet with content history viewlet

Plone stores both workflow history and versioning history for objects. Only workflow history is shown in a viewlet in current Plone versions. I propose to show all history data.

View for rendering events as an iCalendar file

Make it possible to subscribe to Plone events in the standard iCalendar format.

Automate ZCML Loading for Plone Plug-ins

Enable automatic plugins for Plone with z3c.autoinclude