Plone 6 RC 1 Released

Plone 6 Release Candicate 1 is now released.

Good news: the first release candidate of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees (https://github.com/mauritsvanrees).

Thank you to everyone involved!

Read more about the upcoming Plone 6 and Plone 6 FAQ.

Installation

• For developers 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/6.0.0rc1/versions.cfg plus optionally versions-extra.cfg and versions-ecosystem.cfg.
  • With pip you can use the constraints file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0rc1/constraints.txt
  • Read more on https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0rc1

Highlights

Major changes since 6.0.0b3:

• Various packages: updates to support Python 3.11. See below.

• Zope 5.7: This feature release adds full support for Python 3.11 and a ZPublisher encoder for inputting JSON data.
  See the Zope changelog for details.

• zc.buildout: After long development this has a final release. We use version 3.0.1, which now works nicely with latest pip (using 22.3.1).
  Note that it is usually fine if you use different versions of zc.buildout, pip, setuptools, and wheel. We just pin versions that we know work at the moment.

• plone.restapi:

  • Added @upgrade endpoint to preview or run an upgrade of a Plone instance.

  • Added @rules endpoint with GET/POST/DELETE/PATCH.

  • Added link integrity support for slate blocks.

• plone.scale: Add support for animated GIFs.

Volto 16 released

The default frontend for Plone 6 is Volto. Latest release is 16.2 and Volto 16 is the final release needed for Plone 6.
https://plone.org/news/2022/volto-16-released

Python compatibility

This release supports Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11.

Python 3.11.0 was released in October and we are proud to already be able to say Plone supports it! All tests pass.
This is expected to be faster than other Python versions.
Note that not all add-ons may work yet on 3.11, but in most cases the needed changes should be small.

A big thank you for this goes to the Zope part of the Plone community, especially Jens Vagelpohl and Michael Howitz.

Read more on https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0rc1

Installation

For installation instructions, see the documentation.
This documentation is under development, but this should get you up and running. No worries.

Help wanted

Plone 6 final needs just the final push! Wondering how you can help?

• Here is a list of issues marked as blocker

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  . See if you can help there. Or see if there are issues that should be added to this list.
• You can work on documentation. Create new content, edit content, read and review content.
• You can add translations.
• Here is the project board Plone 6.0 - tasks to final

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  . Some may need to be on the first list.

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-6-0-0rc1-released/15885