Plone 6.1.0a5 released

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I have released Plone 6.1.0a5.

Release notes for Plone 6.1.0a5

If you want to jump straight in, here are two important links:

Highlights

The main change in this release is that Discussion is a core add-on.
Discussion is a feature that allows your site visitors to comment on web pages for any content object. The code behind this is in the plone.app.discussion package. In Plone 6.0 and earlier, this was a dependency of Products.CMFPlone, making it available for installation in all Plone sites. In Plone 6.1 it's a dependency of the Plone package.

See the upgrade guide on how to handle this if your site has comments and you want to keep them.

The following packages are involved in the changes:

  • plone.app.discussion: Move this package in the space of Plone Core add-ons.
    It now depends on Products.CMFPlone and is no longer installed by default.
    It is still available in the default Plone distribution, but can be omitted in customizations.
    Installing this in the Add-ons control panel will enable comments globally.
  • Products.CMFPlone: Remove dependency on plone.app.discussion.
  • plone.app.contenttypes: Do not enable the plone.allowdiscussion behavior by default.
  • plone.app.dexterity: Move plone.discussion behavior out of this package to plone.app.discussion.
  • plone.app.upgrade: Cleanup plone.app.discussion settings when the package is not available. If the site contains comments, we throw an error and stop the upgrade. The advice then is to add the plone.app.discussion package.

Other major changes since 6.1.0a4:

  • plone.app.content:
    • getVocabulary: Fix for terms with incomplete HTML.
    • Fix select_default_page in VHM hosted sites.
  • Products.PortalTransforms: Shortcut in safe_html: Check for signs of html or script, skip further processing if none are found.
  • Newer docutils that works with Sphinx 8.
  • Products.validation:
    • Moved to versions-ecosystem.cfg, and no longer test it in core, as core Plone is not using it. It is used by the populare addon collective.easyform.
    • Drop support for Plone 5.2 and for Python 3.7 and lower. Only Plone 6.0 and 6.1 are supported now.
    • Move translations from plone.app.locales to here.
  • Products.isurlinportal: No longer patch Products.CMFPlone. Instead, Products.CMFPlone will use us directly (it already does, but with a new Products.CMFPlone release it will do so more cleanly). This solves cyclic dependencies.
  • zc.buildout: update to version that works with latest setuptools.
  • `plone.app.locales:
    • Remove Products.validation translations. They are moved to that package.
    • Update es, pt-br, eu, cn, and nl translations.
  • Products.CMFPlone:
    • Use five.registerPackage so an editable install with pip works.
    • Use Products.isurlinportal directly, instead of relying on it patching our URLTool. This solves a cyclic dependency.

Volto frontend

The default frontend for new Plone 6 sites is Volto.
Note that this is a JavaScript frontend that you need to run in a separate process with NodeJS.

Plone 6.1 is meant to be used with Volto 18.
Latest release is 18.0.0-alpha.42. See the changelog.

Or use the latest Volto 17.

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 6.0 and 6.1. Our documentation now refers to this frontend as 'Classic UI'.

Docker

As we are still in the alpha stage, we are not yet creating plone-backend Docker images.

Python compatibility

This release supports Python 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12.

pip, buildout, setuptools

In Plone core we use these versions to install Plone:

pip==24.2
setuptools==74.0.0
wheel==0.44.0
zc.buildout==3.1.0

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.

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I have run the upgrade step to 6.1.a5 in one of my test installations. all looks fine. but in portal_types the Disscussion Item FTI is available, i removed this in the ZMI via Delete Button.

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Can you open an issue in plone.app.discussion for that?

The uninstall profile does try to remove it:

And I copied that to plone.app.upgrade.

But maybe the spelling is slightly wrong.
The old Plone 5 docs do not have the meta_type there, maybe that would help.
Could you try that?

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Sorry my fault, i run only the upgrade step for Plone 6. After uninstall of plone.app.discussion in the controlpanel, the FTI is gone in portal_types. Sorry.

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