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Plone 3.0 released

plone.org — Plone 3.0, the newest version of the content management system built on Zope has been released today. New features include OpenID support, a new portlet architecture, built in wiki support and lots more. Installers are available for Windows, OSX, Linux and SuSE as well as cross-platform source bundles.

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  • MrTopf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I was looking forward to this release for quite some time. Cool to see it coming up now after all the work put into it :-)
  • limi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10There's a lot of great features in this release, the summary doesn't do it full justice :)

    http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0

    Python Power!
    • GreenAlien, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I see alot of Plone developers/fans posting in this thread. Can any of you explain why Joomla has skyrocketed in popularity while Plone (and other CMS packages too) havent changed much? (a genuine question)

      Also, I'd very much like to see video demos of v3 in action. If you're trying to spread the word on Plone then sticking a bunch of intro videos on Youtube wouldnt be a bad idea.

      A direct comparison of *latest* versions of Plone and Joomla would be nice too. For example, what are the pros/cons? Exclusive features? What tasks does each do better? Which looks nicer graphically and is more user friendly for site admin users? Which is more robust/customizable? Which is easiest to get started?
  • pjesi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4This release is just too good to be true :)
  • malthe, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3All your Plone are belong to us
  • btnkumar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Much awaited release in the plone. I am sure will have top class features in this realease. Need to start rocking it ;)
  • calvinhp, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4This has been a great improvement to the long line of great releases! Great work guys.... Look for our new site to use it soon.
  • potzenheimer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1A major leap forward - the first time you get your hands on the new portlets engine or try the inline editing feature you will be blown away - the most 'comprehensive' plone release to date. Great...
  • gerrykirk, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1A great product fashioned together in love by a fantastic community, for the whole world to enjoy. :)
  • rockyburt, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1"Yippee!" - 'nuff said
  • sidneidasilva, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Long road since Plone 1.0, but worth the wait!

    http://awkly.org/2007/08/21/plone-30-released/

    Congratulations to all the Plone developers!
  • thomaszeleny, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1I was waiting for it so long! Finally it's time to release our first 3.0 projects!
  • reco, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3cant wait to try :) contrats to all the involved people looks promissing
  • MrTopf, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2direct download here, btw:

    http://plone.org/products/plone

    Installers for Windows, Mac OS X, Unix and of course a tar.gz

  • buehlmann, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1This release will be a turbo boost for both users and developers!
  • fcorrea, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Cool!! Lets start making money out it and make sure Plone3.5 will make our life even easier!!

    Congratulations!
  • jonstahl, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Plone 3 raises the bar for open-source content management. Bravo, all you Plonistas!
  • tibbon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Now the real trick is updating all of the current plone sites/packages.
  • MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4What sites use this CMS?
  • tibbon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1See you at the Plone Conference 2007 in Italy!
    We will be holding a Zope 3 for Plone developers training session just prior to the training, in case you want to become more of a Zope ninja.
    http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-naples
  • NinaBerlin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Great!! I'm really looking forward to upgrade! (And I'm really interested in how upgrading may work ;) A big "Thanks" to all of you!
  • ctxlken, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3At my company, we've already implemented some of the new features, such as versioning and the improved WYSIWYG editor on client projects. I'm really looking forward to giving clients an even more 'enterprise class' web content management system. Plone has surpassed the other open source WCMS options for some time now in terms of 'real' content management (custom content model, granular workflow/permissions, etc.), but with this release, any organization that's weighing open source CMS options against commercial tools will have a very tough ROI case to make for choosing the commercial option.

    Excellent job, once again, Plone Release Team! What an amazing community!
  • reijo01, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Congrats Plone team!
  • nateaune, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2This is the best Plone release ever! Soooo many really great new features and it's much faster than previous versions.
  • robzonenet, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3This release is great. So many things can be done on Plone now without going under the hood. It is more welcoming to the new person first using Plone. Features like editing in place, moving the portlets around with a few clicks, having portlets come up in regards to the type of content you are on (news, page, folder) or the groups your are in, versioning control... Way to go Plone team!
  • firefusion, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7Why does it look like so many people signed up just to digg this article?

    • limi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Probably because most Plone people are not heavy Digg users — but hey, they've gotta start somewhere, right? :)

      It's the first time we have asked our community to use Digg to raise awareness, so by necessity a lot of people will be new. No conspiracy. ;)
    • adenansu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2i first got into digg because i saw a few people using it at least years plone conference :D grats on the release limi
    • jaredthirsk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I didn't sign up just now, but I'm voicing my support for Plone too. I looked at tons of CMS's and tried several and in many ways, the Plone/Zope/Python stack is very compelling and just plain makes me happy. I'm looking forward to 3.0!
    • jefu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The odd thing to me is the number of comments that say something good about plone that have been dugg down. There must be a bunch of drupal (or something) fans around today.
  • faux323, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Oh happy day! The one CMS with everything.
  • tomsyr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Just started to use Plone 2.5 about 2 months ago and saw that 3.0 was on the way, so I installed 3.0 rc2 to test and I'm very impressed. I'm also impressed with the the target date for releasing the production version on 8/21/2007, and hitting that target.
  • ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4I read that as iPhone 3.0 - ugh
  • huertanix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Python:
    Programming the way Guido indented it.
  • Myonosken, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10Nice CMS but...Hmm...I call shenanigans on this submission and its comments.
    • NicksVideo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's because of this thread:
      http://www.nabble.com/Plone-3.0-is-out%21-Congratulations%2C-everyone%21-tf4304165s6741.html#a12254947
      • MatthewWilkes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1As Alex Limi said in another thread, we've been promoting the digg link on our irc channel and mailing list, but you'll notice that thread was hours after the submission. As to the comments, find anywhere that people have been told what to put. It's a big community that is very excited about a massive release and people are doing their best to support ways it'll get more coverage.

        No conspiracy.
    • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3....they could at least come up with some funny comments instead of "Great! It's really rather good!" - I don't think a Turing test could discern between a spam botnet and these Plone fanboys
      • MrTopf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I am sorry if Plone sounds more like a religion than a CMS but maybe it is ;-)
  • claytronic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1This release has been an absolute pleasure to work with. Amazing effort!
  • londubh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I started w/ Plone 2.0 and I'm currently using 2.5 which addressed a lot of the shortcomings of 2.0 and 2.1. I'm pretty jazzed about 3.0 and I'm giving it a shot now.
  • benb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Very cool. I've been tinkering with plone, testing it for an Intranet site.

    On that note, what is the best way to get plone to do a single sign on with active directory? The 3.0 features page mentions free plug-ins that do this, but doesn't mention which one works best. I turned up several searching the site.
  • Lukas2000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I use drupal for my site. What are the pros and cons of each CMS?
    • Sferrero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They are both good. As a simple summary, Drupal is great for smaller sites, Plone is great for larger sites. Plone is overkill for your simple blog type sites...
      • MrTopf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Right, although I also use Plone for smaller sites mostly because I am used to it ;-) On the blogging sector Drupal is probably better but I hope that we can improve on that soon as I personally need this (and thus I am motivated to work on it). For comparison, look at the feature list posted above and compare it to Drupals.
  • wezzul, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4It's a shame how slow Zope is..... or else Plone would be decent... even with boxes with four dual processors, 8 gigs of ram, it's still slow....

    WEZ
    • ers35, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're doing something wrong.
    • batlock666, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Try raising the number of cached objects. Worked wonders for me.
  • rYno, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2python... meh
  • smartsalman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1demo? anyone?
    • jonstahl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Who needs a demo when it has double-click installers for Mac & Windows, and a one-command installer for *nix?
  • motang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Linux and SuSE? So when did Linux and SuSE separate?
    • polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was thinking the same thing. I am on a SuSE box right now....doesn't seem all that different, except for the 2 hour YaST sessions. AHHHHHH
  • frogman54, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1What's a Plone? What's a Zope? Are you guys making this wochungty up?
  • ianbirtwistle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I might get flamed for this - but does this CMS hold any advantages over the Joomla one?
    • Sferrero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Depends on the size of your site. Joomla is a baby CMS compared to Plone.
  • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0For relaxing times.....make it Plone time.
  • Birdoftruth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1nice
  • web.phreak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ha! Read this too fast and saw iPhone 3.0...
  • GomezR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Thx, all the plone devs!!
  • coustoe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone developed for Plone and Sharepoint 3.0/MOSS 2007?

    I was looking at plone as a CMS when it was 1.0, thought it was a little difficult to develop for, since then ive gone with sharepoint and moss 2007, which seems to have more developer tools and support.
  • coustoe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Another question, anyone know what the major CMS players are these days for all the platforms?

    Zope, Plone, sharepoint is there anything for j2ee?
    • jocknerd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0If you run a J2EE server, have a look at Alfresco.
  • surfing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Still waiting for iPlone
  • ericdano, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Yawn
  • noseeme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Haha. "Plone"...
  • anshuman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1why the heck so many comments getting negative rating just for giving download urls etc.
    • MrTopf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I guess because the Digg community thinks if it as spam. Not sure though. Maybe they simply do not like fanboys ;-)
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