Jim Fulton announced the availability of Zope 2.0a4. This version fixes a lot of bugs and adds a few minor features. It looks like this may be the last alpha release. Martijn Pieters followed up with additional improvements. Response was mixed, though many people seem to find it useful.
Most people seem to think that providing a conversion script is the best option.
Alexander Staubo suggest some interesting management interface improvements. Clearly this is an area of Zope that can be improved and community efforts could really make a big difference. Linux Developer's Network is looking for articles about Zope. As more folks come to Frontier to Zope it will be interesting to see what Zopistas can learn from them. RPMs are available on Redhat's libc6 contrib area.