Plone 5.2.7 released

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Plone 5.2.7 is a bug fix release of Plone 5.2.

Installers can be downloaded with the buttons below. Experienced users can update their buildout config by pointing to https://dist.plone.org/release/5.2.7/versions.cfg.

Linux/BSD/Unix users: Use the Unified Installer. It is a configuration and setup kit with build scripts.

Windows 10 users: use the Unified Installer. See Windows-specific installation instructions. Consider using the unified installer within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

OS X users: use the Vagrant kit or install XCode command-line tools and use the Unified Installer.

Automated provisioning: See Plone's Ansible Playbook for a full-stack installation kit.

Cross-platform Docker: install Docker and use the Plone Docker image.

For the Plone 5.2 upgrade guide, see https://docs.plone.org/manage/upgrading/

Specific release notes for Plone 5.2.7:

Some highlights of this release are:

  • plone.app.contenttypes and Products.ATContentTypes: Security fix: prevent cache poisoning with the Referer header. See security advisory.
  • plone.app.linkintegrity: Track integrity of video and audio files in HTML source tags.
  • plone.app.z3cform and plone.app.textfield: Enable multiple wysiwyg editors (use default editor registry setting).
  • plone.namedfile: Make DefaultImageScalingFactory more flexible, with methods you can override.
  • plone.app.layout: Improved the Global section viewlet:
    • Catalog based navigation.
    • Allow more customization by adding methods as hooks.
    • Various performance optimizations.
    • Deprecate now unused navtree_depth property.
  • diazo: Removed FormEncode test dependency.
  • plone.restapi: Be permissive when testing the schema of the querystring endpoint.

Downloads

See also https://plone.org/download/releases/5.2.7, which contains a detailed changelog.

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BTW: Plone 5.2.7 is not visible in the list at https://plone.org/download/releases.

The url https://plone.org/download/releases/5.2.7 is working though

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It is there, but it is on the next batch page. Not very helpful...
I have rearranged the folder contents to be reverse ordered by publication date.
Thanks for the warning.

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Thank you.