Plone is a content management system for web publishing and the Zope application server.
The system provides pre-configured security and roles, a set of content types, and multi-lingual support, among other features. Plone is available under both GPL and commercial licenses.
Here are some key features of "Plone":
· Plone is flexible and powerful. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
· Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.
· Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a click-and-run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.
· Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 50 language translations, and tools for managing multilingual content.
· Plone is supported. There are close to a hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and hundreds of companies specializing in Plone development and support.
· Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3C`s AA rating for accessibility, in addition to using best-practice web standards like XHTML and CSS.
· Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license Linux uses. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.
· Plone is extensible. There are many add-on products for Plone that add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.
· Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.
· Plone is protected. The nonprofit Plone Foundation was formed in 2004 to promote the use of Plone around the world and protect the Plone IP and trademarks.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Remove useless trailing slash in 404. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11550 [gotcha]
· Use correct argument order in utranslate.py script. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/10395 [fRiSi]
· Add missing security declarations on PropertiesTool. [davisagli]
· Add fallback icon for control panels with no icon, in the portlet_prefs portlet. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/tickets/11112. [topherh, davisagli]
· Remove js-generated inline style from searchbox. Same CSS is in public.css. See http://dev.plone.org/plone/changeset/40654, Fixeshttp://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11186 [msmith64]
· Fixed handling of relative links used as default pages This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11340 [fRiSi]
· Re-instate spinner.gif (animation), lost in the move to PNGs. The static spinner.png has been deprecated. Fixeshttp://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11504 [mj]
