Release notes for Plone 6.0.0 final
- Released: Monday December 12, 2022
- Check the release schedule.
- Read the upgrade guide, explaining the biggest changes compared to 5.2.
- Canonical place for these release notes and the full packages changelog.
For technical wizards who want to jump straight in, here are two important links:
- With pip you can use the constraints file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0/constraints.txt
- With Buildout you can use the versions file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0/versions.cfg, plus optionally
versions-extra.cfgandversions-ecosystem.cfg.
Highlights
Major changes since 6.0.0rc2:
- Several bug fixes. See details in the changelog.
Volto frontend
The default frontend for Plone 6 is Volto. Latest release is 16.4.0. See the changelog.
Note that this is a JavaScript frontend that you need to run in a separate process with NodeJS.
The Classic UI is still available when you only run the Python process.
Python compatibility
This release supports Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11.
Installation
For installation instructions, see the documentation.
Issues
If you find any issues, please report them in the main issue tracker.
Thank you
I want to thank far too many people. Plone 5.2 was released in July 2019. Work on 6.0 started not too long after this, but Covid made it impossible to get together as community, which slowed down our progress. Still, in the past three and a half years, people have been crazy enough to upgrade the backend to support Python 3.8 till 3.11 and cleanup lots of code. Others (or sometimes the same people) have been crazy enough to upgrade the Classic UI to latest standards, including Bootstrap 5, making development of custom code easier. Even crazier people have created a separate React frontend called Volto, which is so good that it is now considered the default. Then there is installation with Docker, new documentation, and a new plone.org. So very much volunteer work, plus time sponsored by clients, has gone into this, you would not believe it. Thank you all! The Plone community is great. 
Happy Plone 6 release day!
