Zope is een webapplicatieserver geschreven in de ontwikkeltaal Python en wordt uitgegeven onder de Zope Public License. Het beschikt onder andere over een transactional object database, dynamische HTML-templates, scripts, search engine en connecties naar relational databases. Het programma kan geheel zelfstandig gebruikt worden maar het is ook mogelijk om het aan andere programma's te koppelen, zoals Apache. De ontwikkelaars hebben de versie 2.8.7 vrijgegeven van Zope met de volgende veranderingen:
Version 2.8.7:
Features added:Bugs fixed:
- ZODB 3.4.3
Version 2.8.6:
- Collector #1429: Fix name/value traversal of ZSQL methods (backport from 2.9).
- Collector #1447: When editing content on a virtual-hosted zope, AcceleratedHTTPCacheManager now purges the correct URL.
- Collector #2072: Applied patch to fix problem with overly restrictive __bobo_traverse__ security and tests.
- Applied patch by Yoshinori Okuji to fix some XML export/import problems
- Collector #2037: fixed broken ACTUAL_URL for '/'
- Collector #2039: 'ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.HTTPRequest._authUserPW' choked on passwords which contained colons.
- Missing import of NotFound in webdav.Resource.
- OFS.Image: 'Image.update_data' did not refresh the Etag.
- Collector #940: PageTemplateFile: Open files with universal line-endings support to avoid line-endings problems within python expressions.
- OFS.PropertyManager: Provided missing security declarations.
Bugs Fixed:
- Collector #1819: fixed signature of MountedObject.SimpleTrailblazer._construct(
- ZPublisher.BaseRequest: The publisher would happily publish attributes of type 'bool' and 'complex', as well as Python 2.4's 'set' and 'frozenset'.
- Collector #1991: ZPublisher did not deal properly with a trailing %20 in the URL
- Collector #2013: improved XHTML conformance of error messages, some of which did not close '<p>' tags.
- Collector #1999: fixed broken FTP rename functionality (RNFR now returns 350 as status code instead 250)
- Collector #2002: fixed broken 'ls -R' functionality (didn't recurse properly subclasses of OFS.Folder)