ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 2.0.2

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ANNOUNCEMENT

                     mxODBC Zope Database Adapter

                            Version 2.0.2

                     for Zope and the Plone CMS

                Available for Zope 2.10 and later on
        Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms

This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.0.2-GA.html

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INTRODUCTION

The eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter allows you to easily connect
your Zope or Plone installation to just about any database backend on
the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially
supported eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC
standard as middle-tier architecture.

The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope
itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data
sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux,
Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms.

This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting

Announcement: 2012 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting

(Apologies in advance for the cross-post:  we need this to reach the
whole Zope community).

The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2012
general meeting of the foundation will be held on Friday, 16 March
2012, at 15:00 UTC.  The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the
following channel:

irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation

Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in
which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in
accordance with the foundation bylaws[1].

Summary
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Nominations open via the foundation <at> zope.org mailing list until
  Friday, 2012-02-10.

Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday,
  2012-02-15 through Friday, 2012-03-02.

Votes tallied by representatives of the current board,
  using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software.

General meeting and seating of the new board, Friday, 2012-03-16.

Procedure for Elections

Annoucment: CVE-2010-1104, hotfix, Zope 2.12.22 and 2.13.12 releases

Overview
========

In response to the cross-site scripting vulnerability in Zope2 reported as
'CVE 2010-1104'[1], the Zope security response team announces the
availablility of a hotfix product (for Zope < 2.12), and new releases for
the Zope 2.12 and 2.13 lines:

Hotfix:  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.Zope_Hotfix_CVE_2010_1104

Zope 2.12.22:  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Zope2/2.12.22

Zope 2.13.12:  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Zope2/2.13.12

WARNING: Zope < 2.12 is no longer officially supported, and may have
         other unpatched vulnerabilities. You are encouraged to
         upgrade to a supported Zope 2.

Installing the Hotfix
=====================

The hotfix has been tested with Zope instances using Zope 2.8.x - 2.11.x.
Users of Zope 2.12.x and 2.13.x should instead update to the latest
corresponding minor revision, which already includes this fix.

Download the tarball from the PyPI page:

 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.Zope_Hotfix_CVE_2010_1104

MailingLogger 3.7.0 Released!

I'm pleased to announce a new release of Mailinglogger.

Mailinglogger provides two handlers for the standard python
logging framework that enable log entries to be emailed either as the
entries are logged or as a summary at the end of the running process.

The handlers have the following features:

- customisable and dynamic subject lines for emails sent

- emails sent with a configurable headers for easy filtering

- flood protection to ensure the number of emails sent is not excessive

- support for SMTP servers that require authentication

- fully documented and tested

This release fixes a long standing bug that occurred when logging 
unicode messages.

It also provides support for sending colourised HTML emails:

http://packages.python.org/mailinglogger/html.html

Full docs can be found here:

http://packages.python.org/mailinglogger/

For more information, please see:

MailingLogger 3.6.0 Released!

I'm pleased to announce a new release of Mailinglogger.

Mailinglogger provides two handlers for the standard python
logging framework that enable log entries to be emailed either as the
entries are logged or as a summary at the end of the running process.

The handlers have the following features:

- customisable and dynamic subject lines for emails sent

- emails sent with a configurable headers for easy filtering

- flood protection to ensure the number of emails sent is not excessive

- support for SMTP servers that require authentication

- fully documented and tested

The only change for this release is to allow summaries sent by 
SummarisingLogger to contain messages logged at a lower level than those 
which triggered the summary to be emailed.

Full docs can be found here:

http://packages.python.org/mailinglogger/

For more information, please see:
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/mailinglogger
or
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailinglogger

Hotfix for security vulnerability

On behalf of the Zope security response team, I would like to announce
the availability of a hotfix for a vulnerability inadvertently
published earlier today.

'Products.Zope_Hotfix_20111024' README
======================================

Overview
--------

This hotfix addresses a serious vulnerability in the Zope2
application server.  Affected versions of Zope2 include:

2.12.x <= 2.12.20

2.13.x <= 2.13.6

Older releases (2.11.x, 2.10.x, etc.) are not vulnerable.

The Zope2 security response team recommends that all users of
these releases upgrade to an unaffected release (2.12.21 or
2.13.11) as soon as they become available.

Until that upgrade is feasible, deploying this hotfix also
mitigates the vulnerability.

Installing the Hotfix:  Via 'easy_install'
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Security vulnerabiity 20110928: Arbitrary Code Execution (pre-announcement)

The Zope security response team is pre-announcing a fix for a
vulnerability in Zope 2.12.x and Zope 2.13.x that allows execution of
arbitrary code by anonymous users.

This is a severe vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker
to employ a carefully crafted web request to execute arbitrary commands
with the privileges of the Zope service.

Versions Affected:  Zope 2.12.x and Zope 2.13.x.

Versions Not Affected: Zope 2.9.x, Zope 2.10.x, Zope 2.11.x

This is a pre-announcement. Due to the severity of this issue we are
providing an advance warning of an upcoming patch, which will be
released 2011-10-04 15:00 UTC.

What you should do in advance of patch availability
===================================================

Due to the nature of the vulnerability, the security team has decided to
pre-announce that a fix is upcoming before disclosing the details. This
is to ensure that concerned users can plan around the release.  As the
fix being published will make the details of the vulnerability public,
we are recommending that all users plan a maintenance window for 30
minutes either side of the announcement where your site is completely
inaccessible in which to install the fix.

Meanwhile, we STRONGLY recommend that you take the following steps to
protect your site:

MailingLogger 3.5.0 Released!

I'm pleased to announce a new release of Mailinglogger.

Mailinglogger provides two handlers for the standard python
logging framework that enable log entries to be emailed either as the
entries are logged or as a summary at the end of the running process.

The handlers have the following features:

- customisable and dynamic subject lines for emails sent

- emails sent with a configurable headers for easy filtering

- flood protection to ensure the number of emails sent is not excessive

- support for SMTP servers that require authentication

- fully documented and tested

The only change for this release was to add an X-Log-Level header to 
emails sent. For MailingLogger, this is the level of the log message 
being emailed. For SummarisingLogger this is the highest level of any of 
the messages handled.

Full docs can be found here:

http://packages.python.org/mailinglogger/

For more information, please see:
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/mailinglogger
or

MailingLogger 3.4.0 Released!

I'm pleased to announce a new release of Mailinglogger.

Mailinglogger provides two handlers for the standard python
logging framework that enable log entries to be emailed either as the
entries are logged or as a summary at the end of the running process.

The handlers have the following features:

- customisable and dynamic subject lines for emails sent

- emails sent with a configurable headers for easy filtering

- flood protection to ensure the number of emails sent is not excessive

- support for SMTP servers that require authentication

- fully documented and tested

This release has no functional changes but finally ships with a full new 
set of Sphinx docs:

http://packages.python.org/mailinglogger/

For more information, please see:
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/mailinglogger
or
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailinglogger

cheers,

www.zope.org relaunched

Dear Zope Community,

on behalf of the Zope Foundation I please to announce
the relaunch of the new www.zope.org web site.

http://www.zope.org

The "old" zope.org site will available for the time being
in (reduced form) under

http://old.zope.org

Many thanks to my team:

- Kai Mertens
- Michael Haubenwaller
- Jens Vagelpohl
- Johannes Raggam

Andreas Jung
Zope Foundation

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www.zope.org relaunch on Thursday

Hi there,

www.zope.org will be relaunched this Thursday.

The current www.zope.org will be moved old.zope.org
and replaced with the new site.

During the DNS transition and while working on the sites
you may encounter outages.

The transition will start on Thursday (Germany) morning.

Andreas

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