Documentation
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This site links to various documentation sources for Zope and related software.


Zope
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The Zope web application server, formerly called Zope 2, is under active
development. The latest major release was version 5.

* `Main Zope documentation site <https://zope.readthedocs.io/>`_
* `Release notes <https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html>`_
* :doc:`../developer/roadmap`
* `The Zope Book <https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zopebook/index.html>`_
* `The Zope Developers Guide <https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zdgbook/index.html>`_
* :doc:`zope_secrets/index` (written for Zope 2)


ZODB
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The ZODB object database is the default storage engine for Zope.

* `Main ZODB documentation site <https://www.zodb.org/>`_
* `ZODB tutorial <https://www.zodb.org/en/latest/tutorial.html>`_
* `ZODB/ZEO programming guide <https://www.zodb.org/en/latest/guide/index.html>`_
* `API documentation <https://www.zodb.org/en/latest/reference/index.html>`_
* `ZODB articles <https://www.zodb.org/en/latest/articles/index.html>`_


Zope Toolkit (ZTK)
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The Zope Toolkit represents the various library packages that were created
for Zope 3/Bluebream. Many of them live on in Zope itself.

* `Zope Toolkit documentation <https://zopetoolkit.readthedocs.io/>`_