Shane Hathaway's APE 0.6 is out. APE (short for Adaptable Persistence) just might offer me the high level object-relational AND object-file persistence system for Zope that I've been looking for. This version's pretty substantial and I've just printed out the outline that comes with the software to learn how to write custom gateways/serializers for our MySQL backed web sites.
Update: 3:04 pm: This is a pretty elaborate system. The design is really clean, but still rather specific to serializing regular Zope objects. I'm not sure if I'll have time to learn how to serialize/deserialize items in an existing MySQL database for this round of the software.