Plone 1.0 RC1 released!
January 11, 2003
by plone.org Administrator
As Christmas draws closer, we are proud to announce the first Release Candidate
for Plone. If we get positive feedback from this release and migrations are smooth
- this will be 1.0!
What are the differences between the betas and RC1?
- Plone comes with an i18n folder with approximately 20 languages (please
co-ordinate with the i18n effort [ http://plone.org/development/i18n ] to add
your language). These are pre-installed in the Windows installer package.
- Xopus was removed (will possibly be available as an add-on later); we have
kept XSDHTMLEditor but will be removing it as 1.1 comes and we can move it to
an add-on.
- Lots of bug fixes. Small feature enhancements (filename staying in form
if validation fails) and usability issues addressed.
- migration machinery has been updated and hopefully you should have no problems
migrating from any beta release to RC1.
- RC1 is being run on plone.org with great results.
Near future
Plone is gathering a healthy community around it. The focus in the near future
will be documentation and a stable 1.0 release. Plone is already being used all
over the world for many different purposes. Please tell us [ plone-users@lists.sourceforge.net
] about your experiences. We are now preparing the final announcements, finishing
touches and installer integration, and watching the issue collector [ http://plone.org/collector
] for any issues reported.
To upgrade
- Do a full backup (Both the products dir and Data.fs).
- Delete the CMFPlone directory and replace with the new one.
- Stop and start Zope
- Enter your Plone site via the ZMI (http://myplonesite:8080/manage).
- Add a Plone Migration tool if there isn't one displayed already - the name
should be portal_migration (Add a Plone Tool -> Migration Tool).
- Enter the portal_migration tool and double check that the version displayed
is correct (You can override the settings if you know that you have a different
version).
- Click the "Click here to migrate" link.
- Voilá - your Plone site should be up to date. Please report any errors to
us.
Download and test
Download Plone RC1 here [ http://plone.org/download ] and help us find any remaining
bugs.
The final release will hopefully be out by the end of this month, or early next
month.
We wish everybody a nice holiday, and look forward to making year 2003 the Year
of Plone. :)
The Plone Team