Plone 3.0 released!

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This release is the most user-friendly, powerful and highly
anticipated release of Plone ever, and has an amazing amount of new
functionality. Some highlights:

- Full versioning 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

- Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents

- Wiki support and multiple new mark-up formats

- Rules engine for content

- Strengthened security

For the full overview, see the Plone 3.0 feature list:
http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0.


Get Plone
=========
Download Plone 3.0 for all platforms here:
http://plone.org/download

Upgrading from a previous version of Plone? Detailed instructions can
be found in the Upgrade Manual:
http://plone.org/upgrade.


Web site updates
================
Both the "Documentation section":/documentation and the "Add-on
products section":/products have been updated in time for the Plone
3.0 release — it's now easier to find the documentation you need, as
well as finding products that support the new 3.0 release.


Books
=====
Another great thing about Plone 3.0 is that there is an up-to-date
book written by Martin Aspeli especially for this release. You can
pre-order the book now:
http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book


Plone Rock Stars
================
Hundreds of individuals have contributed to making Plone 3.0 the best
release ever, and we'd like to thank them all for their hard work,
passion and dedication in pushing out the best content management
system on the planet.

The Plone Community would like to express our sincere thanks to the
following people and companies for their support and dedication:

Google, Inc. -- For hosting our downloads and for graciously
sponsoring the time of Plone co-founder Alexander Limi — and of course
for the wonderful Summer of Code project that introduces new
developers to Plone.

The Zope community -- For producing the software Plone is built on top
of. Jim Fulton for starting the whole thing — and for continuing to
push the envelope with Zope 3, Philipp von Weitershausen for guidance
and an excellent (and now updated) book, Andreas Jung for being the
Zope release manager. And everyone else that has contributed to Zope
over the past years.

The CMF community -- For being exceptionally helpful and talented,
Plone would not be Plone without the CMF. Special thanks to Jens
Vagelpohl for being the release manager for CMF, GenericSetup and PAS,
Yvo Schubbe for the impressive amount of work and cleanup, and of
course the founder of CMF, Tres Seaver for overall excellence and help
with all things CMF.

The Plone Documentation Team -- For the amazing re-vamp of the Plone
documentation section in time for the 3.0 release:
http://plone.org/documentation

The Plone Framework Team -- For striking the perfect balance between
new features and stability.

The installer and package creators -- Sidnei da Silva and Enfold
Systems for the Windows installer, Kamal Gill for the Mac OS X
installer, Steve McMahon for the Unified *ix installer, Markus Tesmer
for the SUSE package.

Martin Aspeli -- For being the main driving force behind many of the
new components in 3.0, including 'plone.portlets' and
'plone.contentrules', as well as writing a book to coincide with the
3.0 release, "available for pre-order at Packt Publishing:
http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book.

Wichert Akkerman -- For being the best release manager any project
could wish for. Thanks for your thorough review of all code, for
keeping us all in line, and for the flexibility when things
out-of-the-ordinary had to be done. He also wrote the "OpenID support"
included in the Plone 3.0 release.

Hanno Schlichting -- For cleaning up and sanitizing every nook and
cranny of Plone, as well as being the Internationalization Champion.

Alexander Limi -- For taking time off his busy schedule at Google to
raise the user experience of Plone to new levels with the 3.0 release,
and for managing the community and developers.

Cornelis Kolbach -- For coming up with the NuPlone theme design, and
for many great design discussions.

Danny Bloemendaal -- For organizing the UI sprint in the Netherlands —
a crucial part of the 3.0 release process, and for contributing his
great UI ideas to Plone.

Balazs Ree and Godefroid Chapelle -- For their work on KSS, Plone's
Ajax framework.

Andi Zeidler -- For his great work on the link integrity
functionality, the views and viewlets customization components (with
Weitershausen and Mitchell), as well as the experimental support for
BLOBs in Plone 3

Tom Lazar -- For integrating support for additional markup formats
like Textile and Markdown.

David "Whit" Morris -- For integrating Wicked's "wiki without the
aftertaste" support in Plone.

Duncan Booth -- For great work on improving Kupu, Plone's visual
editor for Plone 3.0.

Daniel Nouri -- For shepherding the Archetypes 1.5 release, as well as
making Plone much much faster.

Ricardo Newbery -- For taking over the maintenance of CacheFu, Plone's
caching proxy integration product. This is a crucial part of Plone's
infrastructure.

Melissa Wong -- For handling Public Relations for us open source
geeks, and making us talk to the press.

Veda Williams -- For great work on the visual redesign of the Products
and Documentation sections on plone.org.

Florian Schulze -- For ResourceRegistries and lots of Javascript work.

Ramon Navarro Bosch -- For organizing the Barcelona sprint.

David Siedband -- For organizing the Plone presence at LinuxWorld San
Francisco this year.

Jola Hyjek -- For redesigning the Plone logo.

Everyone at the conferences, sprints and workshops this year --
Especially the people new to the Plone community. It's been great
meeting you all!
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