Zope
Open-source web application server written in Python, with an object database and a built-in management interface.
Zope is a web application server written in Python, first released in 1998. It keeps its data in ZODB, an object database, and its templates are Zope Page Templates, which the project describes as a web page generation tool. Zope is installed with pip or with zc.buildout, as the installation guide describes. Administrators work in the Zope Management Interface, and users hold roles such as Manager.
The Plone Foundation is the copyright holder of the software, according to the community page on zope.dev.
Worth knowing
Zope is a long-running process rather than a set of files. It is served by a WSGI server, with waitress built in, so a host has to keep a Python process running to serve its pages.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Plone Foundation4
- Maintained by
- Foundation4
- First release
- 19981
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on6
- Rendering
- On a server1
- Install with
- pip, zc.buildout6
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links, First release, Categories, Rendering
www.zope.dev/ - 2026-10-26: links
zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - 2026-10-26: links, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/zopefoundation/Zope - 2026-10-26: Maintainer, Maintained by
www.zope.dev/community.html - 2026-10-26: Written in, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Last release
pypi.org/pypi/Zope/json - 2026-10-26: Install with, Runs as
zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL.html - 2026-10-26: Content storage
www.zope.dev/resources.html - 2026-10-26: Admin interface
zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/operation.html - 2026-10-26: Templating
zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zopebook/ZPT.html - 2026-10-26: License, License model
github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/master/LICENSE.txt - 2026-10-26: License
github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/master/README.rst - 2026-10-26: Current major version
api.github.com/repos/zopefoundation/Zope/tags - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/zopefoundation/Zope/contributors