Volto 16 Released - Ready for Plone 6

Volto 16 is the latest release of the upcoming Plone 6 user interface.

The Plone community is happy to announce that Volto 16 is ready and shipped! This is the final release for the upcoming Plone 6 and a major achievement from the community. Thank you everyone involved!

Volto is Plone's snappy, modern React front end powered by the RestAPI, and the default for Plone 6.

Volto 16

Volto 16 contains tons of new features, bugfixes and tweaks. Here is a sneak peak to some of them, and you can find the full release notes in GitHub: https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

And to get the latest version go to https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.2.0

Top features in Volto 16

• The new Slate editor - improved inline editing and more possibilities
• Content rules - a whole engine for automating processes based on events on the site
• Undo - site admins can see and undo transactions
• Bugfixes and tweaks - it is shiny and polished
• New technology -

More feature highlights

• Added default placeholder for videos to embed them more lightly @giuliaghisini
• Added new Block Style Wrapper. This implementation is marked as experimental during Volto 16 alpha period. The components, API and the styling are subject to change without issuing a breaking change. You can start using it in your projects and add-ons, but taking this into account. See documentation for more information. @sneridagh
• Add default widget views for all type of fields and improve the DefaultView @ionlizarazu
• added configurable identifier field for password reset in config.js. @giuliaghisini
• Add expandToBackendURL helper @sneridagh
• added 'show total results' option in Search block configuration. @giuliaghisini
• Added viewableInBrowserObjects setting to use in alternative to downloadableObjects, if you want to view file in browser intstead downloading. @giuliaghisini
• Disable already chosen criteria in querystring widget @kreafox
• Added X-Forwarded-* headers to superagent requests. @mamico
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation @ericof
• Forward HTTP Range headers to the backend. @mamico
• Add default value to color picker, if default is present in the widget schema. @sneridagh
• Inject the classnames of the StyleWrapper into the main edit wrapper (it was wrapping directly the Edit component before). This way, the flexibility is bigger and you can act upon the whole edit container and artifacts (handlers, etc) @sneridagh
• Refactor image block: make it schema extensible @nileshgulia1 @sneridagh
• Add control panel via config.settings @ksuess #3426
• Add noindex metadata tag @steffenri
• Adding Schema for Maps Block in Sidebar @iRohitSingh
• Add a Pluggable to the sharing page @JeffersonBledsoe #3372
• Add listing variation schemaEnhancer to the search block schema @ionlizarazu
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Breaking changes

• Deprecate NodeJS 12 since it's out of LTS since April 30, 2022 @sneridagh
• Move all cypress actions to the main Makefile, providing better meaningful names. Remove them from package.json script section. @sneridagh
• Remove div as default if as prop from RenderBlocks. Now the default is a React.Fragment instead. This could lead to CSS inconsistencies if taken this div into account, specially if used in custom add-ons without. In order to avoid them, set the as property always in your add-ons. @sneridagh
• Removed date-fns from dependencies, this was in the build because Cypress depended on it. After the Cypress upgrade it no longer depends on it. If your project still depends on it, add it as a dependency of your project. @sneridagh
• Removed all usage of date-fns from core. @sneridagh
• Rename src/components/manage/Widgets/ColorPicker.jsx component to src/components/manage/Widgets/ColorPickerWidget.jsx @sneridagh
• Remove the style wrapper around the <Block /> component in Edit mode, moved to the main edit wrapper @sneridagh
• New cloneDeepSchema helper @sneridagh
• Action listUsersto be called with Object. Distinguish between search for id or search for fullname, email, username @ksuess
• Integrate volto-state add-on. @tiberiuichim @razvanMiu @eea
• Staticize Poppins font to be compliant with EU privacy. Import from GoogleFont is disabled in site.variables. @giuliaghisini
• Remove the callout button (the one with the megaphone icon) from the slate toolbar since it has the same styling as blockquote. If you need it anyway, you can bring it back in your addon. @sneridagh
• Using volto-slate Headline / Subheadline buttons strips all elements in the selection @tiberiuichim
• Use Cypress 10.3.0 (migrate from 9.x.x). Cypress 10 has some interesting goodies, being the native support of Apple Silicon Computers the main of it. See https://docs.voltocms.com/upgrade-guide/ for more information. @sneridagh
• The complete configuration registry is passed to the add-ons and the project configuration pipeline @sneridagh
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

See

for more information about all the breaking changes.

Bugfix

• Fix Search page visit crashes /contents view @dobri1408
• Fix sidebar full size bottom opacity on edit page when sidebar is collapsed @ichim-david
• Fix toolbar bottom opacity on edit page when toolbar is collapsed @ichim-david
• Fix content view regression, height issue @danielamormocea
• Fixed secure cookie option. @giuliaghisini
• Changed addon order in addon controlpanel to mimic Classic UI @erral
• Fixed error when loading content in a language for which a Volto translation is not available. @davisagli
• Fix for clipped dropdown menus when the table has few or no records in Contents view @mihaislobozeanu
• fixed view video list from youtube in Video block. @giuliaghisini
• Fixed ICS URL in event view in seamless mode @sneridagh
• Fix withStylingSchemaEnhancer enhancer mechanism @sneridagh
• Add correct query parameters to the redirect @robgietema
• Fix RenderBlocks: path @ksuess
• Fix field id creation in dexterity control panel to have slugified id @erral
• Changed to get intl.locale always from state @ionlizarazu
• Fix regression, compound lang names (eg. pt-BR) no longer working @sneridagh
• fix TokenWidget choices when editing a recently created content. @giuliaghisini
• Fix color picker defaults implementation #2 @sneridagh
• Enable default color in backgroundColor default StyleWrapper field which wasn't sync with the default value setting @sneridagh
• Fix Block style wrapper: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toString') @avoinea #3410
• fix schema when content contains lock informations. @giuliaghisini
• Don't render junk when no facets are added to the search block @tiberiuichim
• Fix visibility of toolbar workflow dropdown for more states as fitting in .toolbar-content. @ksuess
• Fix the video block for anonymous user @iFlameing
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Internal

• Improve Cypress integration, using Cypress official Github Action. Improve some flaky tests that showed up, and were known as problematic. Refactor and rename all the Github actions giving them meaningful names, and group them by type. Enable Cypress Dashboard for Volto. @sneridagh
• Stop using xmlrpc library for issuing the setup/teardown in core, use a cy.request instead. @sneridagh
• Added Cypress environment variables for adjusting the backend URL of commands @JeffersonBledsoe #3271
• Reintroduce Plone 6 acceptance tests using the latests plone.app.robotframework 2.0.0a6 specific Volto fixture. @datakurre @ericof @sneridagh
• Upgrade all tests to use plone.app.robotframework 2.0.0a6 @sneridagh
• Upgrade Sentry to latest version because of #3346 @sneridagh
• Update Cypress to version 9.6.1 @sneridagh
• Missing change from the last breaking change (Remove the style wrapper around the <Block /> component in Edit mode, moved to the main edit wrapper). Now, really move it to the main edit wrapper @sneridagh
• Fix warning because missing key in VersionOverview component @sneridagh
• Mock all loadable libraries. @mamico
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Documentation

• Move Cypress documentation from README.md to the docs. Improve the docs with the new Makefile commands.
• Improve English grammar and syntax in backend docs. @stevepiercy
• Fix JSX syntax highlighting. Remove duplicate heading. @stevepiercy
• fix make task docs-linkcheckbroken if grep has exit code 1 (no lines found)
• Updated simple.md @MdSahil-oss
• Fix indentation in nginx configuration in simple.md @stevepiercy
• Remove sphinx_sitemap configuration because Volto's docs are now imported into the main docs, making this setting unnecessary. @stevepiercy
• Set the ogp_site_url to main docs, instead of training. @stevepiercy
• aria-* attributes are now parsed correctly by jsx-lexer 2.0. @stevepiercy
• volto-slate documentation @nileshgulia1
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Thank you!

We would like to thank all the people involved in creating Volto 16. Over 40 people have committed code, documentation and other effort for this. It is amazing how much we were able to accomplish as a community, during the last months.

See https://6.dev-docs.plone.org/volto/upgrade-guide/index.html for more information.

What's Next - Plone 6 final release

Where do we go from here? Plone 6! Right now, the only major feature missing were content rules and the new Slate editor, and both were included in Volto 16. 

So the work is not over yet. We still need helping hands and contributors to continue the effort to make Plone 6 a reality. Everybody is welcome!

Try Plone 6 today

Feel free to try out Plone 6 with Volto 16:

• Public Plone 6 demo site
• Documentation
• Github Volto repository
• Contact Volto team and join the effort