Commit 4c67c77b authored by Hanno Schlichting's avatar Hanno Schlichting

Flesh out what's new document [ci skip].

parent a1d7d5dc
......@@ -32,9 +32,11 @@ Zope 2.13 first gained support for running Zope as a WSGI application,
using any WSGI capable web server instead of the built-in ZServer.
Zope 4.0 takes this one step further and recommends using WSGI as the
default setup. In fact ZServer got moved into its own optional project.
default setup and functional testing (testbrowser) support uses the new
WSGI publisher.
If you rely on ZServer features, like Webdav, FTP, zdaemon or zopectl
The ZServer based publisher got moved into its own optional project.
So if you rely on ZServer features, like Webdav, FTP, zdaemon or zopectl
support, please make sure to install ZServer and use its ``mkzopeinstance``
script to create a Zope instance.
......@@ -46,7 +48,75 @@ be run using any WSGI capable web server.
To make running Zope easier, a new ``runwsgi`` command line script got
added, which can read a PasteDeploy configuration and create and run
the WSGI pipeline specified in it. By default such a configuration is
created in the ``etc/zope.ini`` file.
created in the ``etc/zope.ini`` file. The WSGI support has no built-in
support for running as a daemon. Your chosen WSGI server might support
this or you can use external projects like supervisord.
The WSGI support in Zope 4 has changed in a number of ways to make it
more similar to its ZServer equivalent. In Zope 2.13 the WSGI support
required using repoze WSGI middlewares to add transaction and retry
handling. The WSGI support in Zope 4 no longer supports those middlewares
but integrates transaction and retry handling back into the publisher
code. This allows it to also add back full support for publication events
and exception views. It does mean that the transaction is begun and
committed or aborted inside the publisher code and you can no longer
write WSGI middlewares that take part in the transaction cycle, but
instead have to use Zope specific hooks like you do in the ZServer based
publisher.
Reduced ZMI functionality
-------------------------
Zope traditionally came with a full-featured through-the-web development
and administration environment called the Zope Management Interface (ZMI).
Over time the ZMI has not been maintained or developed further and today
is a large source of vulnerabilities like cross site scripting (XSS)
or cross site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. Generally it is therefor
recommended to restrict access to the ZMI via network level protections,
for example firewalls and VPN access to not expose it to the public.
In Zope 4 the functionality of the ZMI is starting to be reduced and
development support and general content editing are being removed.
This trend is going to continue and the ZMI might be removed completely
in Zope 5.
View components without Acquisition
-----------------------------------
In Zope 2.12 Zope Toolkit view components changed and stopped inheriting
from Acquisition base classes, as Acquisition got aware of `__parent__`
pointers, which meant that ``aq_parent(view)`` worked, without the view
having to mix-in an Acquisition base class. For backwards compatibility
a new `AcqusitionBBB` class was mixed in, to continue to support calling
``view.aq_parent``. This backwards compatibility class has been removed
in Zope 4, so ``view.aq_parent`` no longer works and you have to use
``aq_parent(view)``. The same applies for other view components like
view page template files or viewlets.
Chameleon based page templates
------------------------------
Chameleon is an alternative implementation of the page template language
supporting additional features and impressive template rendering speed.
So far it was available via the `five.pt` project. In Zope 4 the code
from `five.pt` has been merged into Zope core and the Chameleon based
engine is now the default, removing the need to install `five.pt`
manually.
Python versions
---------------
Zope 4 exclusively supports Python 2.7. A large number of its dependencies
have been ported to Python 3, so there is reasonable hope that Python 3
support can be added to Zope in the future. It is most likely that this
support will not extend to optional dependencies like the ZServer project
or projects supporting TTW development.
Memory use
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