I have made a soft release of Plone 6.0.10 today. 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.
Release notes for Plone 6.0.10rc1
- Released: Thursday February 22, 2023
- 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.
If you 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-dev/constraints.txt
- With Buildout you can use the versions file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0-dev/versions.cfg, plus optionally
versions-extra.cfgandversions-ecosystem.cfg.
Highlights
Major changes since 6.0.9:
- Plone 6.0.10 is the first release that officially supports Python 3.12.
plone.api: Implemented unrestricted find of content:api.content.find(unrestricted=True)plone.restapi:- Translate validation error messages in the deserializer.
- Give Site Administrator permission to manage users. To make this possible, we now check the "plone.app.controlpanel.UsersAndGroups" permission instead of "cmf.ManagePortal" in a lot of operations in the users and groups endpoints.
plone.volto: AddVOLTO_FRONTEND_DOMAINas env var forvolto.frontend_domainregistry setting.plone.app.caching: Fix purging of image scale paths for Dexterity content.plone.app.content: Fix escaping HTML intagspopover and in vocabulary items.plone.app.theming: Traverse to theme resources from the portal. This fixes a broken theme when rendering accessible content contained in an inaccessible navigation root.plone.staticresources: Update dependencies: mockup 5.1.9, bootstrap 5.3.3, bootstrap-icons 1.11.3.Products.CMFPlone:- Remove volatile cached resource viewlet content to fix context aware expressions.
- Add
data-bundle="diazo"back, for backward compatibility with backend.xml (Classic UI). - Add a
data-bundle="plonecustomcss"also for@@custom.cssstylesheet
Volto frontend
The default frontend for new Plone 6 sites is Volto. Latest release is 16.30.3. See the changelog.
Note that this is a JavaScript frontend that you need to run in a separate process with NodeJS.
Also, existing Plone sites need some or more extensive changes to be upgraded before they can use the Volto Frontend. Please read the guide on migrating from Plone Classic UI to Volto.
Note that Volto 17 is also available, and you can use it on Plone 6.0, but we will keep recommending Volto 16 by default.
Classic UI
The HTML based and server side rendered UI that was present in Plone 5.2 and earlier major Plone releases is still available and has also been updated and improved upon in Plone 6. Our documentation now refers to this frontend as 'Classic UI'. Support for Classic UI is especially relevant for existing Plone sites which for whatever reason or requirements are not yet ready to be upgraded to the Volto frontend.
Python compatibility
This release supports Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12.
Plone 6.0.10 is the first release that officially supports Python 3.12.
Note that Plone 6.0 is tested on Python 3.8 and 3.11 on every change to core packages. For the other Python versions we run the tests once a week.
pip, buildout, setuptools
In Plone core we use these versions to install Plone:
pip==24.0
setuptools==69.0.3
wheel==0.42.0
zc.buildout==3.0.1
In general you are free to use whatever versions work for you, but these worked for us.
Installation
For installation instructions, see the documentation.
Issues
If you find any issues, please report them in the main issue tracker.
Thank you!