After over one year of development and ~4000 check-ins, we are ready to show you the preview of the upcoming 2.1 release of Plone.

What's important now is that you help us by doing the following:

• Install/upgrade backups of your instances to Plone 2.1 and report any migration problems or bugs in the Issue Tracker - the more sites you can attempt migrating, the more likely it is that we can make your site migrate properly when the final release is out.
• Help out with fixing the remaining bugs so we can get the release out with a minimal amount of known bugs.
• Test the release candidate on as many setups as you can, and report any problems back to us.
• Test your products with the 2.1 Release Candidate, if you are a third-party developer, and update your code to make use of the new 2.1 facilities that will make it faster and more scalable. Help is available on the Developer list for product authors.

Plone 2.1 is the most amazing release of Plone yet, help us make it perfect!

— Alexander Limi (on behalf of the Plone Team)

Links

• Plone 2.1 RC2 download (installers coming soon)
• What's new in Plone 2.1 (Still not complete, but a good starting point)
• Plone 2.1 bug list
• Setup instructions for working with the current SVN version of the code