Plone 5.2.6 has been soft-released. Please give it a try and let me know if there are any critical issues:
https://dist.plone.org/release/5.2-dev/versions.cfg
Note: you may have expected the directory to be called 5.2.6-pending, as we did before. But it is 5.2-dev. My intention is to keep this directory around as a kind of "nightly" build, just like we do with 6.0-dev now.
For those who haven't run across soft-releases before, this is the last step before the final release. Because things haven't been finalized yet, some packages may change between now and the release. It is not recommended to use soft-releases in production.
See also the release checklist on GitHub .
Sorry, no changelog yet, no release notes, no packages uploaded. That will come early next week.