Yesterday marked the first important date in the Plone 3.0 development
process: the deadline for submissions of review bundles. The result is
an impressive number of twenty bundles:

PLIP 8 - Versioning
PLIP 48 - Use session instead of cookie plugin to store PAS authentication
PLIP 112 - XML Import / Export
PLIP 118 - Portlets engine based on PlonePortlets and Viewlets
PLIP 119 - Contextual help portlet
PLIP 121 - Asynchronous loading of content views
PLIP 122 - Edit-in-place mode for all basic field types
PLIP 125 - Ensuring link/reference integrity (removing 404 links)
PLIP 127 - Move properties to Edit screen using pre-loaded fieldsets
PLIP 142 - Componentise the global content menu
PLIP 144 - Generalised Next / Previous navigation
PLIP 145 - Locking
PLIP 148 - Move to CMF 2.1
PLIP 157 - Content rules engine
PLIP 168 - integrate iterate for checkin/checkout/staging
PLIP 171 - KSS / Azax to Plone
PLIP 172 - Wiki syntax support for all content
PLIP 173 - OpenID support
PLIP 174 - More configurable and reusable i18n features
PLIP 179 - Improved commenting infrastructure

Thank go to everyone who was involved in the development of those
bundles - the result of their work is going to make Plone 3.0 an awesome release.

The remainder of the Plone 3.0 time-line looks like this:

- September 25: framework team finished reviewing bundles
- October 8: final verdict for all bundles
- November 30: first beta release
- January 22: first release candidate
- March 12: release

During the next couple of weeks the framework team will review all
submitted review bundles. A first review is not final: the framework
team may have suggestions for improvement that make a bundle acceptable for merging. The window for making and reviewing those improvements ends on October 8.

During this phase we will be making alpha release with the accepted and merged bundles.