Plone 6 Beta Released
Plone 6 has reached its Beta stage, along with the new Plone 5.2.9.
Good news: the first beta release of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees.
Thank you to everyone involved!
Read more about the upcoming Plone 6 and Plone 6 FAQ.
Highlights
Major changes since 6.0.0a6:
Products.CMFPlone:- Removed our expressions patch. This was a patch to avoid some too strict checks by
Zope/Products.PageTemplates. But in Plone 6 it should be fine to be stricter. TheSTRICT_TRAVERSE_CHECKenvironment variable is no longer read. - Initially open accordions in resource registry. Hide via JS when no errors occur. This makes it possible to fix a breaking error.
- Resource bundle dependency on multiple comma-separated names.
- Removed our expressions patch. This was a patch to avoid some too strict checks by
plone.staticresources:- Register jquery and bootstrap globally. This helps a lot for add-ons.
- Fix TinyMCE link/image modals.
plone.dexterity: Remove long deprecated imports and fallbacks.plonetheme.barceloneta: Update to Bootstrap 5.2.0 (released this week).plone.scale: Fix to ensure that when a scale that was registered usingpre_scaleis later actually generated byget_or_generate, it is stored with the same uid as the placeholder info that was stored bypre_scale. This avoids an issue where the same scale was generated repeatedly.
Volto frontend
The default frontend for Plone 6 is Volto. The latest release is 16.0.0-alpha.15.
This contains the much-anticipated integration of the volto-state editor. See the changelog.
Slate editor - toolbar example
Slate editor - editing links
Python compatibility
This release supports Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10.
Support for Python 3.10 is still a bit provisional, as our testing infrastructure needs some updates before we can fully test this.
But your friendly Plone Release Manager is using Python 3.10 for local development, so it should be okay.
Installation
For installation instructions, see the documentation.
This documentation is under development, but this should get you up and running. No worries.
For technical wizards who want to jump straight in, here are two important links:
- With Buildout, you can use the versions file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0b1/versions.cfg.
- With pip, you can use the constraints file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0b1/constraints.txt
Plone 6
Plone 6 editing experience combines the robust usability of Plone with a blazingly fast JavaScript frontend
Try Plone 6 Beta!
For installation instructions, see the documentation.
See Plone 6 in action at https://6.demo.plone.org/
Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-beta-1-released/15485