This new release of Plone focuses on increased speed, scalability, ease-of-use, and offers simple installation for both new sites & upgrades.  Enfold Systems has deployed pre-release Plone 4 based solutions for months, and has seen immediate benefits to end-users, content editors and developers alike. 

Plone 4 brings significant performance improvements.  It is about 50% faster than Plone 3, is more memory efficient, has search / indexing improvements and serves massive files & video easily. Plone 4 also features a new theme that is accessible and easy to customize, a polished user interface that was refined to be even more intuitive, and a new graphical HTML editor (TinyMCE).

Like previous versions of Plone, there are point-and-click installers for Windows, Mac and Linux.  You can be up and running in under 10 minutes, and Plone 4 is an easy upgrade from Plone 3.  For an in-depth review of Plone 4, visit here, or contact us above for a FREE upgrade / migration consultation.

Plone 4  |  the Book

The 225+ page latest edition, A User's Guide to Plone 4, was re-written, updated and includes new material on topics such as: using the TinyMCE editor, using Plone for wikis and making content easy to find. Unlike other Plone books, this volume focuses on how to use "out of the box" features preinstalled with any default Plone installation. It is written especially for those who use Plone on a daily basis to write and approve content.  Learn more

“Plone 4 provides a world class user experience. It also silences its critics on many aspects such as performance, flexibility and deployment configuration.” says Alan Runyan, President of Enfold Systems and Co-Founder of the Plone CMS. “In addition, this new version of the book serves as an ideal support tool to enable end users to be self sufficient. This is vitally important for large scale organizations to have this type of support material.”

As more information becomes available, we will post on our website and to this list.  Our goal is to make a final decision regarding Enfold Desktop’s future by the end of September, 2010.

Enfold Systems is a sponsor for this year's symposium at Penn State University, May 24-30th.  The event includes two days of talks, along with training and sprints.  Alan Runyan will give a talk on "Content Delivery" on May 27th.  Learn more

Enfold Proxy 6.0

This major release of Enfold Systems' Microsoft IIS Web Server integration with Plone includes the following NEW features:

Load balancing based on criteria
Enfold Proxy can now be configured based on HTTP request parameters to route requests to specific load balancing pools.

XDV integration
Enfold Proxy now supports XDV, a theming mechanism which enables site designers to more easily apply a new design using content generated from the Plone CMS.  Learn more
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Enfold Server 5.0

Version 5.0 of Enfold Server is the final release of the "End-of-life" product.

This buildout based version of Enfold Server is to allow current adopters to have a simpler migration path to the core Plone distribution, and to make its Windows integration tools available for the Plone community.

The release is available as a windows installer, and as components for use in a buildout under the ZPL open source license.  Learn more
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Technical Contributions

ZODB 3.9.5
The ZODB 3.9, or newer, did not calculate the size of items in memory. Enfold identified and resolved the issue, allowing users to constrain the amount of RAM a Zope / Plone process uses to a specific size.

Also, If you attempted to run the ZODB in optimized mode, it would fail.  Enfold also addressed this issue and the fixes have been merged and incorporated into recent versions of the ZODB.

Plone 3.3.x now compatible with ZODB 3.9
Enfold has patched Zope 2.10/11.x  to now support the ZODB 3.9.  These changes are in the process of being merged with future releases.
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Also This Month

World Plone Day, April 28

Enfold Systems hosted the 2010 World Plone Day for the Texas area.  The event was well attended and included several newcomers to Plone. In addition, the event served as the inaugural event for the Houston Plone User's Group ("HPUG").  Read more

CMS Expo 2010, May 3-5

Enfold Systems co-sponsored a Plone track at the 2010 CMS Expo in Chicago. The 3-day conference was for business professionals and users to compare the top open source CMSes, head-to-head.

The Plone track included three full days of talks, case studies and interactive discussions given by Plone co-founders Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi, along with other speakers from the Plone community. Read more

Plone 4 User Guide

Enfold Systems is updating "A user's guide to Plone" for the upcoming Plone 4 release. Subscribe to our RSS feed to watch for its release!  Learn more
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•  Load balancing based on criteria
• Enfold Proxy can now be configured based on HTTP request parameters to route requests to specific load balancing pools. Three practical cases used in production include: logged in users, anonymous users, and crawlers.  Systems with heavy crawler activity can offload to a machine with less resources and reserve premium resources for editors or the public.
• XDV integration
• Enfold Proxy now supports XDV, a theming mechanism which enables site designers to more easily apply a new design using content generated from the Plone CMS.  An example is taking a static XHTML/CSS design and replacing different aspects of the static page with dynamic information from Plone.
• The 6.0 release resolve numerous bugs inside of load balancing connection handling, cache efficiency and installation.
• Updated and improved Enfold Proxy documentation.

Click here to download Enfold Proxy 32 bit or 64 bit versions.