Good news: the second and last release candidate of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees (https://github.com/mauritsvanrees).

Thank you to everyone involved!

Read more about the upcoming Plone 6 and Plone 6 FAQ.

Try Plone 6!

For installation instructions, see the documentation.

See Plone 6 in action at https://6.demo.plone.org/

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0rc2-released/15945

The Plone community is happy to announce that Volto 16 is ready and shipped! This is the final release for the upcoming Plone 6 and a major achievement from the community. Thank you everyone involved!

Volto is Plone's snappy, modern React front end powered by the RestAPI, and the default for Plone 6.

Volto 16

Volto 16 contains tons of new features, bugfixes and tweaks. Here is a sneak peak to some of them, and you can find the full release notes in GitHub: https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

And to get the latest version go to https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.2.0

Top features in Volto 16

• The new Slate editor - improved inline editing and more possibilities
• Content rules - a whole engine for automating processes based on events on the site
• Undo - site admins can see and undo transactions
• Bugfixes and tweaks - it is shiny and polished
• New technology -

More feature highlights

• Added default placeholder for videos to embed them more lightly @giuliaghisini
• Added new Block Style Wrapper. This implementation is marked as experimental during Volto 16 alpha period. The components, API and the styling are subject to change without issuing a breaking change. You can start using it in your projects and add-ons, but taking this into account. See documentation for more information. @sneridagh
• Add default widget views for all type of fields and improve the DefaultView @ionlizarazu
• added configurable identifier field for password reset in config.js. @giuliaghisini
• Add expandToBackendURL helper @sneridagh
• added 'show total results' option in Search block configuration. @giuliaghisini
• Added viewableInBrowserObjects setting to use in alternative to downloadableObjects, if you want to view file in browser intstead downloading. @giuliaghisini
• Disable already chosen criteria in querystring widget @kreafox
• Added X-Forwarded-* headers to superagent requests. @mamico
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation @ericof
• Forward HTTP Range headers to the backend. @mamico
• Add default value to color picker, if default is present in the widget schema. @sneridagh
• Inject the classnames of the StyleWrapper into the main edit wrapper (it was wrapping directly the Edit component before). This way, the flexibility is bigger and you can act upon the whole edit container and artifacts (handlers, etc) @sneridagh
• Refactor image block: make it schema extensible @nileshgulia1 @sneridagh
• Add control panel via config.settings @ksuess #3426
• Add noindex metadata tag @steffenri
• Adding Schema for Maps Block in Sidebar @iRohitSingh
• Add a Pluggable to the sharing page @JeffersonBledsoe #3372
• Add listing variation schemaEnhancer to the search block schema @ionlizarazu
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Breaking changes

• Deprecate NodeJS 12 since it's out of LTS since April 30, 2022 @sneridagh
• Move all cypress actions to the main Makefile, providing better meaningful names. Remove them from package.json script section. @sneridagh
• Remove div as default if as prop from RenderBlocks. Now the default is a React.Fragment instead. This could lead to CSS inconsistencies if taken this div into account, specially if used in custom add-ons without. In order to avoid them, set the as property always in your add-ons. @sneridagh
• Removed date-fns from dependencies, this was in the build because Cypress depended on it. After the Cypress upgrade it no longer depends on it. If your project still depends on it, add it as a dependency of your project. @sneridagh
• Removed all usage of date-fns from core. @sneridagh
• Rename src/components/manage/Widgets/ColorPicker.jsx component to src/components/manage/Widgets/ColorPickerWidget.jsx @sneridagh
• Remove the style wrapper around the <Block /> component in Edit mode, moved to the main edit wrapper @sneridagh
• New cloneDeepSchema helper @sneridagh
• Action listUsersto be called with Object. Distinguish between search for id or search for fullname, email, username @ksuess
• Integrate volto-state add-on. @tiberiuichim @razvanMiu @eea
• Staticize Poppins font to be compliant with EU privacy. Import from GoogleFont is disabled in site.variables. @giuliaghisini
• Remove the callout button (the one with the megaphone icon) from the slate toolbar since it has the same styling as blockquote. If you need it anyway, you can bring it back in your addon. @sneridagh
• Using volto-slate Headline / Subheadline buttons strips all elements in the selection @tiberiuichim
• Use Cypress 10.3.0 (migrate from 9.x.x). Cypress 10 has some interesting goodies, being the native support of Apple Silicon Computers the main of it. See https://docs.voltocms.com/upgrade-guide/ for more information. @sneridagh
• The complete configuration registry is passed to the add-ons and the project configuration pipeline @sneridagh
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Bugfix

• Fix Search page visit crashes /contents view @dobri1408
• Fix sidebar full size bottom opacity on edit page when sidebar is collapsed @ichim-david
• Fix toolbar bottom opacity on edit page when toolbar is collapsed @ichim-david
• Fix content view regression, height issue @danielamormocea
• Fixed secure cookie option. @giuliaghisini
• Changed addon order in addon controlpanel to mimic Classic UI @erral
• Fixed error when loading content in a language for which a Volto translation is not available. @davisagli
• Fix for clipped dropdown menus when the table has few or no records in Contents view @mihaislobozeanu
• fixed view video list from youtube in Video block. @giuliaghisini
• Fixed ICS URL in event view in seamless mode @sneridagh
• Fix withStylingSchemaEnhancer enhancer mechanism @sneridagh
• Add correct query parameters to the redirect @robgietema
• Fix RenderBlocks: path @ksuess
• Fix field id creation in dexterity control panel to have slugified id @erral
• Changed to get intl.locale always from state @ionlizarazu
• Fix regression, compound lang names (eg. pt-BR) no longer working @sneridagh
• fix TokenWidget choices when editing a recently created content. @giuliaghisini
• Fix color picker defaults implementation #2 @sneridagh
• Enable default color in backgroundColor default StyleWrapper field which wasn't sync with the default value setting @sneridagh
• Fix Block style wrapper: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toString') @avoinea #3410
• fix schema when content contains lock informations. @giuliaghisini
• Don't render junk when no facets are added to the search block @tiberiuichim
• Fix visibility of toolbar workflow dropdown for more states as fitting in .toolbar-content. @ksuess
• Fix the video block for anonymous user @iFlameing
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Internal

• Improve Cypress integration, using Cypress official Github Action. Improve some flaky tests that showed up, and were known as problematic. Refactor and rename all the Github actions giving them meaningful names, and group them by type. Enable Cypress Dashboard for Volto. @sneridagh
• Stop using xmlrpc library for issuing the setup/teardown in core, use a cy.request instead. @sneridagh
• Added Cypress environment variables for adjusting the backend URL of commands @JeffersonBledsoe #3271
• Reintroduce Plone 6 acceptance tests using the latests plone.app.robotframework 2.0.0a6 specific Volto fixture. @datakurre @ericof @sneridagh
• Upgrade all tests to use plone.app.robotframework 2.0.0a6 @sneridagh
• Upgrade Sentry to latest version because of #3346 @sneridagh
• Update Cypress to version 9.6.1 @sneridagh
• Missing change from the last breaking change (Remove the style wrapper around the <Block /> component in Edit mode, moved to the main edit wrapper). Now, really move it to the main edit wrapper @sneridagh
• Fix warning because missing key in VersionOverview component @sneridagh
• Mock all loadable libraries. @mamico
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Documentation

• Move Cypress documentation from README.md to the docs. Improve the docs with the new Makefile commands.
• Improve English grammar and syntax in backend docs. @stevepiercy
• Fix JSX syntax highlighting. Remove duplicate heading. @stevepiercy
• fix make task docs-linkcheckbroken if grep has exit code 1 (no lines found)
• Updated simple.md @MdSahil-oss
• Fix indentation in nginx configuration in simple.md @stevepiercy
• Remove sphinx_sitemap configuration because Volto's docs are now imported into the main docs, making this setting unnecessary. @stevepiercy
• Set the ogp_site_url to main docs, instead of training. @stevepiercy
• aria-* attributes are now parsed correctly by jsx-lexer 2.0. @stevepiercy
• volto-slate documentation @nileshgulia1
• And much much more at https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.0.0

Thank you!

We would like to thank all the people involved in creating Volto 16. Over 40 people have committed code, documentation and other effort for this. It is amazing how much we were able to accomplish as a community, during the last months.

Good news: the first release candidate of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees (https://github.com/mauritsvanrees).

Thank you to everyone involved!

Read more about the upcoming Plone 6 and Plone 6 FAQ.

Installation

• For developers who want to jump straight in, here are two important links:

  • With Buildout you can use the versions file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0rc1/versions.cfg plus optionally versions-extra.cfg and versions-ecosystem.cfg.
  • With pip you can use the constraints file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0rc1/constraints.txt
  • Read more on https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0rc1

Help wanted

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Beta!

For installation instructions, see the documentation.

See Plone 6 in action at https://6.demo.plone.org/

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0rc1-released/15885

For the first time in two years, members of the Plone community from all over the world travelled to Namur, Belgium, for Plone Conference 2022. On Saturday 15 October, after two days of training and three days of talks, we had the opportunity to contribute to Plone in the Plone Conference 2022 sprint.

A red double-decker bus transported us from Namur to the iMio offices in the nearby town of Gembloux. Thank you iMio for the use of your offices for the sprint. We had all you need for a Plone sprint: plenty of space, speedy wifi, and lots (and lots) of coffee.

We split into different groups to tackle different tasks and topics, from documentation to Volto to marketing. 

At the end of the day, the same red bus took us back to Namur. By that time, many of us had stopped drinking coffee and started drinking beer, so the drive back was fun, to say the least. It was a successful day and we were satisfied with our progress.

Progress During the Sprint

It was a productive day, with plenty of progress made towards Plone 6 under the following topics:

• Documentation
• Translations
• Marketing for Plone 6 and the plone.org renewal
• Volto
• Add-ons
• Testing and CI
• Zope and Plone security packages
• Upgrade of a real-world 5.2.7 install to Volto
• Volto seamless/multi-host mode
• plonecli / bobtemplates.plone
• buildout improvements
• Plone in a Box™

See the full list of tasks and accomplishments in the sprint document.

Participants of the Sprint

The sprint was well-attended, with at least 41 in-person participants and a number of online participants. 

• Steve Piercy
• Philip Bauer 
• Talya Beyers
• Karel Calitz
• Fred van Dijk
• Alessandro Pisa
• Michael Toepfl
• Kim Nguyen
• Paul Roeland
• David Glick
• Michael McFadden - flipmcf
• Alexander Loechel
• Jon Pentland
• Johannes Raggam
• Jeff Bledsoe
• Jan Mevissen
• Richard Braun
• Franco Pellegrini
• Jens Klein 
• Steffen Ring
• Thomas Kindermann
• Jonas Piterek
• Ruda Porto Filgueiras
• Maik Derstappen/ MrTango
• Nicola Zambello
• Marshall
• Nilesh Gulia
• Alok Kumar
• Tiberiu Ichim
• Piero Nicolli
• Filippo Campi
• Mauro Amico
• Valentina Bolognini
• Matteo Parrucci
• Eric Steele
• Alin Voinea
• Katja Süss
• Victor Fernández de Alba
• Godefroid Chapelle
• Martin Peeters
• Érico Andrei
• Rikupekka Oksanen

What a great way to end Plone Conference 2022, the first in-person conference in over two years (Check the conference recap)! Thank you to everyone who participated, and a special thank you to iMio for hosting the sprint, and to the main organisers iMio and Affinitic, the Plone Foundation, and the sponsors who made the conference and this sprint possible. 

The Plone Foundation exists to further the development, marketing, and legal affairs of Plone and the Plone community.

The Plone Foundation board's duties include the following:

• supporting the development of the Plone ecosystem by coordinating team efforts and identifying vital sprint targets;
• protecting the integrity of the Plone ecosystem by monitoring rights and ensuring the continued value of the ecosystem intellectual property;
• coordinating the marketing of the Plone ecosystem and providing funding for representation at conferences and related events;
• coordinating World Plone Day and the annual Conference to encourage community connections and the ongoing development of the world's best CMS.

Read more about the Plone Foundation governance process.

The Board members for the coming year are:

• Érico Andrei (President)
• Kim Paulissen (Vice President)
• William Fennie (Secretary)
• Jens Klein
• T. Kim Nguyen (new/returning board member)
• Martin Peeters (new board member)
• Paul Roeland

Read more about the Plone Foundation Board for 2022-2023.

You can email the entire board at board@plone.org

What a week! Training, talks, sprint, all videos available online and lots of love among old and new faces of the community. The conference consisted of:

• 60 presentations, 45 in English and 15 in French
• Over 300 participants on-site and online
• People from 30 countries all over the world
• All videos streamed live and already published, with 5400 views per week

https://2022.ploneconf.org/

Keynote and talk highlights

The three keynotes discussed the state of Plone and the impact of IT on ecological sustainability.

• State of Plone community
• State of Plone software
• IT sustainability

Over 40 other talks shared impressive use cases, Plone 6 gallery, technical revelations and demos, and much more. Check out:

• Plone at Scale: How Plone Powers Hundreds of Websites at one of the Largest Research Institutions in Europe
• Rai Way: Plone 6 supporting the world of Italian information, sports and entertainment
• Plone for managers: how to achieve good ROI for your organisation and really use and value the strengths of Plone
• When Plone 6 Classic boosts local government websites
• A long time ago in a University far far away in Bologna
• Documenting Plone 6, or how to lead by getting out of the way
• Embedding BPMN-driven business processes into Plone
• Nobody cares about Plone: Selling a Plone website to somebody who doesn't care
• Reflections on diversity and what we've learned from a pandemic
• Plone 6 Beyond 2022
• And many more!

Watch all the presentations online on the Plone YouTube channel using the Ploneconf 2022 playlist.

Sprint

As always, after the week of inspirational talks, there was the possibility to stay for another two days of hands-on developing, planning, and documenting. Thanks to the active sprinters, who made the effort to improve many aspects of Plone.

• Volto development
• Plone documentation and translations
• New Plone.org website and marketing
• Testing, Continuous Integration
• Mockup
• Zope
• And more!

Read the sprint documentation.

Thank you, organisers and sponsors!

Such an amazing event would not have been possible without the effort put in by the main organizers iMio and Affinitic, Plone Foundation and a long list of other sponsors providing financial support. The city of Namur proved to be a lovely host too! Merci beaucoup!

Plone Conference 2023 announced

Next year, we will see you in Basque Country in October/November. Plone Conference 2023 will be organised by CodeSyntax.

Stay tuned for more info!

View All 2022 Conference Presentations and Speakers

You can view all the training, speaker and presentation information at https://2022.ploneconf.org/

Good news: the third beta release of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees (https://github.com/mauritsvanrees).

Thank you to everyone involved!

Read more about the upcoming Plone 6 and Plone 6 FAQ.

Useful links

• You can use the plone-backend docker image 3.
• With Buildout you can use the versions file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0b3/versions.cfg 2. On top of that, you may want to extend versions-extra.cfg 1 and versions-ecosystem.cfg 1.
• With pip you can use the constraints file at https://dist.plone.org/release/6.0.0b3/constraints.txt 1
• Here is the release page 3 on plone.org.

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Beta!

For installation instructions, see the documentation.

See Plone 6 in action at https://6.demo.plone.org/

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0b3-released/15728

The Plone Foundation welcomes four new members after unanimous confirmation by the Foundation's Board of Directors on September 29, 2022.

Membership in the Foundation is conferred for significant and enduring contributions to the Plone project and community. The Plone Foundation Membership Committee unanimously recommended each applicant for their ongoing contributions to Plone.

Lucas Aquino

Lucas has been a Plone developer since 2006 and currently is working on the Brazilian Electoral Justice organization, developing and maintaining some of the largest Plone implementations in Brazil (29 sites handling millions of user interactions per day when elections are underway). A member of the dynamic PlonGov-Br community, Lucas has provided training sessions about Plone development for Brazilian organizations and assisted with translations of Plone installations to Brazilian Portuguese. He has presented at several conferences and World Plone day events, the latest being World Plone Day 2022 where he spoke about "Plone in the Brazilian Electoral Justice."

Rafahela Bazzanella

Rafahela Bazzanella began working with Plone in 2005. A co-founder of the PloneGov-Br community she has been an important resource for PyConBrasil, World Plone Day Brasilia, Plone Symposium South America, and other meetings and sprints. She has worked on documentation and translations of Zope and Plone into Brasilian Portuguese. Rafahela is a maintainer of Portal Modelo, a Plone distribution serving legislative chambers in Brazil (More than 1,200 active sites as of 2022). She works with Interlegis/ILB/Senado Federal in Sobradinho, Brasil.

Nilesh Gulia

Nilesh Gulia first became interested in Plone in 2017 when he saw the community "working towards a common goal and taking effective decisions to enhance Plone right from start." This included commitments to a modern frontend ecosystem. He proposed a Google Summer of Code project that was accepted and created a command-line interface for bootstrapping a Volto application from scratch. He continued contributing to the community, participating in various online sprints and presenting his GSoC project at the 2018 Plone Conference in Tokyo. Nilesh did an internship with Kitconcept before graduating from University, and then moved into his first full-time job as a Plone / Volto developer in 2020. He believes "the best way to learn is by teaching others", and thus advances his understanding by helping people who post to the Plone community forum.

Nilesh works with Eau de Web and lives in Dehli, India.

Jörg Zell

Jörg has been doing Plone projects since 2002 and is a familiar face at conferences, sprints, and teams. He has served as a Plone Ambassador to CMS events worldwide and has worked on Plone translations into German. Currently Jörg serves as project lead for the ITONBOARD ERASMUS+ project dedicated to introducing young people to an IT career orientation with a focus on open source software communities, such as Plone. He also has been active on the marketing side of things and created “CMS Comparisions” marketing material for Plone for a third party website.

Jörg works at Interaktiv in Kerpen, Germany.

About Plone Foundation

The Plone Foundation encourages applications from long time contributors to the Plone project and community. Learn more about the Foundation membership and the application process.

Online Ticket Benefits

• Access to three days of conference talks (sorry, without lunch!)
• 40+ presentations
• Interact with speakers, sponsors and attendees
• Join the community sprint

Get your free online ticket now!

In Person Tickets

It's not too late to come to Namur!

Get your ticket to join the live event

Plone Conference 2022 keynotes and talks

Plone conference 2022 keynotes and talks are published and can be found at:
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks

Also, the full schedule is available at
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule

Keynotes

Three varying topics, from presenting the newest version of Plone to building and maintaining thriving open-source community, and to the impact of information technology to the sustainability and ecology.

• The state of Plone Community - Érico Andrei delves into the aspects of Plone's valuable core: the people
  https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/state-of-the-plone-community
• The state of Plone - Plone release managers present Plone 6, the latest and greatest version of the software and talk about the technology around it
  https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/state-of-plone
• No ICT without mineral extraction - Yohan Jans and Olivier Vergheyst will talk about the geological, sosiological and ecological mpact of ICT in and how to achieve sustainable IT
  https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/no-ict-without-mineral-extraction
  
  

Talks

There will be four tracks of talks in the conference and over 60 talks!

• Track 1 and Track 2: Talks in English
• Track 3: Talks in French
• Track 4 open spaces for any discussions with other participants

Come and hear about:

• Plone at Scale: How Plone Powers Hundreds of Websites at one of the Largest Research Institutions in Europe
• Brazil still loves Plone
• DevOps Bird's Eye View on the Plone 6 Backend
• Plone for managers: how to achieve good ROI for your organisation and really use and value the strengths of Plone
• University of Oxford - Plone 4 to Plone 6 - Upgrading the beast
• Plone 6 Beyond 2022

And so many more!

https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule

Speakers

Speakers come from all cornes of the world and include all types of talent from developer, integrators, devops-experts and users to project managers and marketing people.

https://2022.ploneconf.org/speakers

Join Plone Conference 2022

Plone Conference 2022 takes place in the beautiful city of Namur in the heart of Belgium, on October 10-16.

Read about the venue and get your tickets, you are warmly welcome!

On October 10-16 2022, there is going to be the 21st Plone Conference!

Get ready for the new Plone 6: the features, stability, scalability, and best-in-class security of an enterprise CMS, combined with a modern, easy-to-use, and powerful front end based on state-of-the-art web technologies.

Plone community is the most friendly open source community there is and always welcomes new people warmly.

About Namur

Discover the heart of Old Namur, the charm of its streets, its terraces, restaurants, museums like the Felicien ROPS Museum, presenting the work of this 19th century artist or the Museum of Ancient Art featuring the Oignies Treasure (13th century silverware).

More information: https://www.namurtourisme.be/en/

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at La Bourse - Centre de Congrès of Namur.

• The Bourse is in the heart of the city
• Proximity to major traffic routes and public transport
• In a magnificent building of character
• Nestled in the heart of the city, the Bourse combines functionality and modern infrastructure
• The Bourse is fully accessible for people with reduced mobility

How to get to the venue

The city of Namur nestled in a set of greenery at the confluence of two rivers is situated only a stone’s throw from Brussels, its international airport (BRU) and high-speed railway station (Brussels South).

Namur is also very close to the main regional airport Charleroi Brussels South (CRL).

The city of Namur is therefore easily accessible from all major European cities through daily connections operated as well by classic low-cost companies.

Read more about traveling options

Accommodation

The city can propose seven hotels at less than 5 minutes (by walk or bus) from the Conference venue:

• IBIS Namur Center - ★★★ (50 rooms have been pre-booked until mid-September, please mention that you are coming for the Plone Conference)
• Les Tanneurs - ★★★★
• Château de Namur - ★★★★
• The Royal Snail - ★★★★
• Ne5t Hotel Spa - ★★★★
• Flandre - ★★★
• Beauregard - ★★

Covid Information

We are aiming for making a safe event for everyone. Here is information about Covid in Belgium.

https://2022.ploneconf.org/about/covid-information

Conference tickets

Tickets are now available and include:

• Access to two days of training sessions
• Access to three days of the conference
• Lunch included
• 40+ presentations
• Interact with speakers, sponsors, and attendees
• Join the community sprints
• Conference T-shirt

Get your tickets!

More info

• https://2022.ploneconf.org
• All information about the venue
• Follow @ploneconf on Twitter

If you have any questions, please contact conf@plone.org, we are happy to help you!

Good news: the first beta release of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Read more about the upcoming Plone 6 and Plone 6 FAQ.

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Beta!

For installation instructions, see the documentation.

See Plone 6 in action at https://6.demo.plone.org/

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-beta-1-released/15485

The Plone Foundation welcomes three new members after unanimous confirmation by the Foundation's Board of Directors on July 21, 2022.

Membership in the Foundation is conferred for significant and enduring contributions to the Plone project and community. The Plone Foundation Membership Committee unanimously recommended each applicant for their ongoing contributions to Plone.

Stefano Marchetti

Stefano began using Plone with Version 2.0 in 2003. He has been active in organizing and presenting for World Plone Day during the last 14 years. He attended his first Plone conference in Vienna in 2005 and later participated in conferences in Naples, Washington DC, Budapest, Bristol, San Francisco, Arnhem, Brasilia, and Ferrara. He helped to organize the Ferrara Plone Conference in 2019, and is currently contributing to a redesign project for Plone.org

In addition to his contributions to the community, Stefano has always worked to make Plone known and disseminated, contributing talks about the framework at various editions of Linux Day. He contributed to the birth and diffusion of Plone among public administrations by creating PloneGov in Italy (plonegov.it).

He is Chief Technical Officer of RedTurtle in Ferrara, Italy.

Markus Hilbert

Markus met Plone around 2004, Version 2.05 and has been working with Plone / Zope since 2005. He has contributed to bug crushing on core dev and collective packages and has attended conferences and sprints for close to 20 years. He is currently engaged with the ongoing Classic-UI sprint and co-organized artsprint in 2016. He prides himself on asking (stupid) questions (on purpose) and poking into hornets' nests. Markus continues to develop freelance and customer related Plone solutions.

Markus lives in Vienna, Austria.

Michael McFadden

Michael McFadden joined Radio Free Asia in 2012 as a Python developer and has since taken the website through upgrades to Plone 4 and Plone 5. He migrated a monkeypatched translation product to correctly use TransformChain and reduced maintenance considerably. His contributions, aside from maintaining Radio Free Asia, mostly consist of small changes to documentation and quick fixes to parts of core. He is working on image captioning and output filters for Plone 5.

Michael lives on the East Coast of the USA, In Virginia, near Washington DC

The Plone Foundation encourages applications from long time contributors to the Plone project and community. Learn more about the Foundation membership and the application process.

Download and installation: https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a6

The sixth alpha release of Plone 6 contains various fixes and improvements. Read more about the upcoming Plone 6.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Alpha 6

Download and installation:
https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a6

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0a6-released/15401

Plone Conference 2022 takes place in Namur, Belgium on October 10-16, 2022.

We have now opened ticket sales, with early bird prices!

The topics at the conference range from Plone, Zope, Volto, and Guillotina to Python and Pyramid or from fancy JavaScript to cool case studies and beyond. Project management, process improvement, open-source, design, and community aspects are valued talk topics.

Get ready for the new Plone 6: the features, stability, scalability, and best-in-class security of an enterprise CMS, combined with a modern, easy-to-use, and powerful front end based on state-of-the-art web technologies.

Plone community is the most friendly open source community there is and always welcomes new people warmly.

Conference tickets include

• Access to two days of training sessions
• Access to three days conference
• 40+ presentations
• Interact with speakers, sponsors, and attendees
• Join the community sprints

Get your tickets!

More info

• https://2022.ploneconf.org
• Follow @ploneconf on Twitter

If you have any questions, please contact conf@plone.org, we are happy to help you!

This was the Buschenschanksprint 2022

After two years of working from home, sprinting remotely, and meeting via video conferences the Buschenschanksprint was for many the first occasion to see each other in person.

And meeting in person was amazing. We had many discussions, demos, and stand-ups which seemed just more effective than what we had over video conferences. Not that video conferences are ineffective, but it was high time to meet in person again.

The beautiful landscape of the "Südsteirische Weinstraße", the Buschenschankjause, and a glass of wine or two in the evening was also a fine thing to have.

We were at most 18 people directly at the sprint and two remote sprinters. The weather was fine, we could work outside and inside, on the terrace or in the arbor, depending on preference.

The space was big enough and the internet connection absolutely sufficient. We had some people in tents, 8 people in the "Ferienhaus List" and the rest at the Apartment "Sonnenberg".

For dinner, we went to nearby Buschenschenken, to a Restaurant, and did some BBQ ourselves.

This year Buschenschanksprint was a strategic sprint for the second time. We had a lot of plans for progressing Plone and related projects, and we did achieve a lot.

Progress during the sprint

Here is but a short list of headlines of sprint achievements.

To read the progress in full detail, check the community forum post: https://community.plone.org/t/this-was-the-buschenschanksprint-2022/15347

• Barceloneta LTS improvements
• Webpack Module Federation
• Documentation and Training
• Migrate to Volto
• Work was done on an automatic migration path from Classic UI to Volto.
• Relations in Volto
• Mosaic
• Datagridfield
• Images
• Mxdev/Mxmake
• YAFOWIL
• plone.api
• Control Panel User Group Membership in Volto
• Various other topics
• Future of Classic Plone discussion

Participants of the Buschenschanksprint

• Johannes Raggam (Organiser)
• Alessandro Pisa
• Manuel Reinhardt
• Robert Niederreiter
• Jens Klein
• Maik Derstappen
• Philipp Auersperg
• Guido Stevens
• Peter Mathis
• Christine Baumgartner
• Peter Holzer
• Markus Hilbert
• Alexander Pilz
• Maurits van Rees
• Philip Bauer
• Georg Bernhard
• Leo Auersperg
• Katja Süss
• Steve Piercy (Remote)
• Fred van Dijk (Remote)

That was the Buschenschanksprint. We're already looking forward to the next one!

Plone Conference 2022 takes place in Namur, Belgium on October 10-16, 2022. We have now opened call for papers, looking for all kinds of different talks related to Plone.

The topics can range from Plone, Zope, Volto, and Guillotina to Python and Pyramid or from fancy JavaScript to cool case studies and beyond. Project management, process improvement, open-source, design, and community aspects are valued talk topics. Plone 6 cases are of much interest this year.

There are many kinds of talk slots, from 5 min lightning talks to 30 and 45 minutes long, and you can target your talk to different audiences.

If you have any questions, please contact conf@plone.org. No matter if you are an experienced speaker or a beginner, we are happy to help you!

Submit your talk!

More info

• https://2022.ploneconf.org
• Follow @ploneconf on Twitter

For 2022, the Plone Foundation has been granted *six* Google Summer of Code student project slots.

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a months-long programming project starting over the summer.

After careful selection of the many project proposals presented, we are pleased to announce that the following students will be working on various aspects of Plone:

• Avi Mishra (Create New Volto Themes)
• Bhuvan R J (Recycle Bin)
• Rohit Singh (Workflow Manager)
• Marwan Atef (Passwordless Pluggable Authentication Service)
• Md Sahil (Undo Control Panel)
• Vijaya Agarwal (Bulk Editing Content)

Read more about their projects

To our new students: welcome to the Plone community – we wish you a great learning experience over the coming months. Congratulations!

Mentoring these students will be:

• Nilesh Gulia (former Plone GSoC student!)
• Jakob Kahl
• Mike Metcalfe
• Rob Gietema
• Andreas Jung
• Thomas Massmann
• T. Kim Nguyen

To our mentors: thank you for introducing new developers to open source and our community!

The most effective (and fun) ways to move things forward in Open Source development are sprints - after years of remote sprinting due to COVID, we were finally able to hold a sprint in two locations simultaneously, with more than 25 people around the community gathering together.

The Beethoven Sprint was held in Bonn, Germany, and Bucharest, Romania.

Sprint Topics

These were the topics that we worked on:

• Plone 6: github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/milestone/6
• Volto (Plone 6 Frontend) https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/2703
• Integrate Slate Editor in Core https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/2167
• Plone 6 Control Panels https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/29
• Plone 6 Content Rules https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/10

Check the official sprint page for more details.

Bonn

Main goals were achieved, and we are now closer than ever to make Plone 6 a reality. The main blocker, Slate in core, is on its way. Other nice-to-have features to be included in Plone 6 include:

• "base_view" default for custom view-less content types
• initial iteration of the core Block Style Wrapper
• extensive work on the new images srcset for frontends
• initial design of the infrastructure to support them on the backend
• rethought and refactored user and groups control panel
• migrations, classic-to-Slate, draftJS-to-Slate, classic-to-Volto in general
• DnD support for nested structures
• Schema driven stock Blocks support
• Containers for backend and frontend, nightly for buildout.coredev
• and fixed tons of bugs... 

just to name the most important... the PR list is huge! 

Thanks to: Andrea Cecchi, Balazs Ree, Bernd Wolber, Érico Andrei, Fred van Dijk, Ion Lizarazu, Jakob Kahl, Jens Klein, Katja Süss, Maurits van Rees, Mikel Larreategi, Philip Bauer, Piero Nicolli, Rob Gietema, Steffen Ring, Thomas Kindermann, Timo Stollenwerk, and Victor Fernandez de Alba

Bucharest

The Plone Beethoven 2022 sprint "two legs" summary from Romania:

• The first Plone sprint ever organized in Romania!
• Around 12 attendees in Bucharest and a few more remote from all over Romania
• Thanks to Maik Derstappen for joining us so we can call it an international sprint 🙂
• Facts: youngest Plone contributor for the sprint: 18 year old Ionuț Dobriceanu. Contributions merged!
  
  • https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/3316
  • https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/3319
    
    

Achievements:

• volto-slate editor being merged into Plone6/Volto core advanced integration
• "URL management"/"Aliases" control panel and contextual implemented for both backend and frontend
• "Content rules" control panel and contextual implemented for the backend (API endpoints)
• "Link Integrity for content objects" for Plone6 frontend implemented
• ... and a couple of other generic issues solved!

Thanks to: Valentina Bălan, Laszlo Cseh, Maik Derstappen, Ionuț Dobriceanu, Valentin Dumitru, Krisztina Elekes, Alec Ghica, Andrei Grigore, David Ichim, Tiberiu Ichim, Răzvan Miu, Daniela Mormocea, Iulian Petcheși, and Alin Voinea.

Also, check out The Plone Newsroom podcast episode 8, where Philip, Fred and Victor talk about the Beethoven sprint, Plone 6 and Volto 16: https://plone.org/news/2022/the-plone-newsroom-podcast-episode-08

Upcoming sprints

Do you want to join the effort or meet new people? The friendly Plone community welcomes you to sprints this May:

• https://plone.org/events/sprints/buschenschanksprint-2022
• https://plone.org/events/sprints/plone-org-renewal-to-plone-6-may20-2022
• https://plone.org/events/sprints/cerrado-sprint-2022

Some highlights of this release

• Zope: Enhance cookie support. For details, see issue 1010
  For more changes see Change log — Zope documentation 4.6 documentation
• waitress is updated to version 2.1.1 to mitigate a vulnerability in that package. As waitress no longer supports Python versions less than 3.7 it is not advised to run Plone 5.2 on Python 2.7 or 3.6 any longer, even though they are still supported by Plone itself. You get an older waitress version then. If you must use an old Python version, please switch to a different WSGI server. See the recommendations in the Zope documentation.
• WARNING: the new waitress 2.1.1 does seem to suffer from a possible race condition leading to the process quitting. If you are affected by this, you can downgrade to 2.1.0 (which has a known security vulnerability, as mentioned above) or use a different WSGI server.
• plone.app.linkintegrity: Track link integrity of referenced PDFs and other site objects in IFRAME SRC references.
• plone.outputfilters: Resolve UIDs in SRC attribute of of SOURCE and IFRAME elements.
• plone.app.querystring: Add lazy attribute to vocabularies to prevent fetching any results.
• plone.schema: Use indent in json.dumps to make JSON readable in the widget.

Download Plone 5.2.8

• plone.org release page: https://plone.org/download/releases/5.2.8
• community announcement: https://community.plone.org/t/plone-5-2-8-released/15266
• dist.plone.org with the versions, constraints, etcetera: https://dist.plone.org/release/5.2.8/

The Plone Newsroom is a monthly podcast brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk. They cover technical and non-technical topics including Plone, the Plone community, and whatever else they come up with to keep us informed!

Episode #08 on 12 May 2022 was all about Plone sprints - sprints in general and the recent Beethoven sprint in particular, which took place simultaneously in Bonn and Bucharest. It focused on the Volto 16 frontend that is coming in Plone 6. Philip, Fred and special guest Victor Fernandez de Alba discussed what got accomplished and what is planned after Volto 16. Go to the Newsroom page to view other episodes.

World Plone Day is an opportunity for members of the Plone community to celebrate and promote their favorite open source CMS. The 2022 event took place on April 27th and featured in-person events plus streaming and recorded content. There were:

• 58 talks on a wide range of topics from beginner to advanced
• 20 hours of video in 10 languages from 14 countries
• 6 local events - in Italy, Brazil, India, Switzerland, and 2 in Romania

There were talks from long-time community members and from people who are relative newcomers. Here are a few highlights for a general audience:

• What is Plone?
• Preview of Plone Conference 2022
• Plone's Google Summer of Code Program
• Welcome to Plone 6
• Plone Shorts: Searching and Organizing Content
• Permission to Come Aboard, New Plone User

• Casual Introduction to Plone 6 Classic
• Plone 6 Volto's Seamless Mode
• PloneGov - Securing the Most Secure CMS

And here are a few of the many talks in languages other than English:

• PloneGovBrazil Panel (in Brazilian Portuguese)
• Websites for Municipalities (in French)
• Three hours of talks in Italian!

You can find all the World Plone Day videos, and much more on the PloneCMS YouTube channel and the WPD 2022 playlist.

The New Plone.org Will Be Plone 6

At the 2021 Plone Conference, the marketing team presented a plan was for how to improve and renew plone.org, the one and only place for Plone-related information:

• https://2021.ploneconf.org/schedule/the-new-plone-org-built-on-plone-6
• https://www.slideshare.net/rioksane/the-new-ploneorg-built-on-plone-6-250557521

The main ideas at the time were:

• Plone.org will be migrated to Plone 6
• Content needs refreshing, especially the frontpage and main landing pages
• Visual theme will be out-of-the-box Plone 6 with Volto frontend, using available add-ons (many of which we expect will be added as core features)
• Goal is to publish the new site by World Plone Day 2022 (April).

Great Progress at Sprints

Since December 2022, we have organized 4 monthly sprints, working on:

• Content and navigation structure
• Other content work
• Migration from Plone 5 to Plone 6
• Visual design
• Translation, default page content, add-ons
• Plone 6 documentation
• Volto improvements
• Volto Blocks and installation
• And more

We have updated the original plan to include a new visual theme and additional features that will eventually be available for others to use. A more ambitious scope has moved the release date somewhat further this year.

Special Thanks

The Plone Marketing and Communications Team is organizing the effort and working on the content overhaul, but we also want to express special thanks to:

• Philip Bauer, from Starzel.de - Full content migration from Plone 5 to Plone 6, including the transition to Volto blocks
• Érico Andrei, from Kitconcept - Foundation Member content type, installation, deployment, content type renewal, etc.
• Steve Piercy and Katja Süss - Documentation effort resulting in new Plone 6 docs and organization around the work
• Massimo Azzolini, Irene Capatti, Massimo Weigert, and Gianantonio Vecelli, from Giallocobalto - For massive content and structure redesign, visual design and layout, and UX design
• Stefano Marchetti, Andrea Cecchi, Giulia Ghisini, and Andrea Baglioni, from Redturtle - For the new site's buildout which includes needed Volto blocks, curated add-ons, visual theme, and more: https://github.com/collective/volto-plone-org
• Kim Nguyen, Brian Davis - For lessons learned from the previous renewal, content and structure discussion, theming mockups, etc. 
• Victor Fernandez de Alba and Jakob Kahl - For Volto knowledge
• And everyone else who has pitched in ideas, discussions, and questions!

This effort would not be possible without help from the awesome Plone community!

Want to Join the Effort?

The plone.org work is not done - our next sprint will be organized in May 2022. Feel free to join! There will be an event page, but meanwhile join the plone.org Discord channel for discussion. By the next sprint we hope to have a fully running site with migrated content available online for testing and content work.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact marketing@plone.org.

Stay tuned for more plone.org discussions and presentations at World Plone Day on April 27th 2022.

The Plone Newsroom is a monthly podcast brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk. They cover technical and non-technical topics including Plone, the Plone community, and whatever else they come up with to keep us informed!

Episode #07 on 13 April 2022 featured news about the progress towards the Plone 6 Classic release, updates about Volto 15 development, and information about events (GSoC, World Plone Day, sprints (Zope, Beethoven, Buschenschank), and add-ons (collective.easyform, collective.honeypot and captcha). Go to the Newsroom page to view other episodes.

Download and installation: https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a4

The fourth alpha release of Plone 6 contains various fixes and improvements. Read more about the upcoming Plone 6.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Alpha 4

Download and installation:
https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a4

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0a4-released/15126

The Plone community, in particular the Volto team, is happy to announce that Volto 15 is ready and shipped!

Volto is Plone's snappy, modern React front end powered by the RestAPI, and the default for Plone 6.

Volto 15.0.0

New feature highlights

• Add `cookiesExpire` value to config to control the cookie expiration @giuliaghisini
• DatetimeWidget 'noPastDates' option: Take widgetOptions?.pattern_options?.noPastDates of backend schema into account. @ksuess
• Add a new type of filter facet for the Search block. Heavily refactor some searchblock internals. @tiberiuichim
• Add date range facet to the search block @robgietema
• Introduce the new `BUILD_DIR` runtime environment variable to direct the build to run in a specific location, different than `build` folder. @sneridagh
• Handle redirect permanent calls from the backend in the frontend (e.g. when changing the short name) @robgietema
• Added id widget to manage short name @robgietema
• Refactor language synchronizer. Remove it from the React tree, integrate it into the Api Redux middleware @sneridagh
• Add blocks rendering in Event and NewsItem views (rel plone.volto#32) @nzambello @ksuess
• Complete Basque translation @erral
• Complete Spanish translation @erral

Breaking changes

• Upgrade `react-cookie` to the latest version. @sneridagh @robgietema
• Language Switcher no longer takes care of the change of the language on the Redux Store. This responsibility has been unified in the Api Redux middleware @sneridagh
• Markup change in `LinkView` component.
• Rename `core-sandbox` to `coresandbox` for sake of consistency @sneridagh
• Extend the original intent and rename `RAZZLE_TESTING_ADDONS` to `ADDONS`. @sneridagh
• Lazyload draftjs library. See the upgrade guide on how that impacts you, in case you have extended the rich text editor configuration @tiberiuichim @kreafox
• Deprecating `lang` cookie in favor of Plone official one `I18N_LANGUAGE` @sneridagh

Bugfix

• Fix the `null` error in SelectAutoComplete Widget @iFlameing
• Prevent the MultilingualRedirector to force 4 content load when switching the language @reebalazs
• Fix the upload image in contents view @iFlameing
• add "view" id to contact-form container for main content skiplink @ThomasKindermann
• Fix loading indicator positioning on Login form submit @sneridagh
• Fix redirect bug with URLs containing querystrings @robgietema
• Fixed id widget translations @robgietema
• Contents Rename Modal, use `id` Widget type @sneridagh
• Fix overflow of very long file name in `FileWidget` @sneridagh
• Fix overflowing issue in the toolbar @kreafox
• Overwrite current block on insert new block. @robgietema
• Fix hot reload on updates related to the config object because of `VersionOverview` component @sneridagh
• Fix error when lock data is gone after an invariant error. @robgietema

Internal

• Change prop `name` -> `componentName` in component `Component` @sneridagh
• Add new RawMaterial Volto websites in production @nzambello
• House cleanup, remove some unused files in the root @sneridagh
• Move Webpack related files to `webpack-plugins` folder @sneridagh
• Remove unused Dockerfiles @sneridagh
• Update Docker compose to latest images and best practices @sneridagh
• Improve flaky test in coresandbox search Cypress tests @sneridagh
• Better implementation of the add-on load coming from the environment variable `ADDONS` @sneridagh
• Turn `lazyLibraries` action into a thunk. Added a conditional if the library is loaded or in process to be loaded, do not try to load it again. This fixes the lag on load `draftjs` when having a lot of draftjs blocks. @sneridagh
• Use `@root` alias instead of `~` in several module references. Most of the Volto project code no longer needs the root alias, so it makes sense to phase it out at some point @tiberiuichim
• Alias `lodash` to `lodash-es`, as this will include only one copy of lodash in the bundle @tiberiuichim

Documentation

• Upgrade Guide i18n: Make clear what's project, what add-on. @ksuess
• (Experimental) Prepare documentation for MyST and importing into `plone/documentation@6-dev`. @stevepiercy
• Fix broken links and redirects in documentation to be compatible with MyST. @stevepiercy
• Update add-on internationalization. @ksuess
• Add MyST and Sphinx basic configuration for rapid build and comparison against MkDocs builds. @stevepiercy
• Fix many MyST and Sphinx warnings. @stevepiercy
• Remove MkDocs configuration. See https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/3042 @stevepiercy
• Add Plone docs to Intersphinx and fix broken link. @stevepiercy
• Get version from `package.json` @sneridagh
• Remove legacy folder in docs @sneridagh
• Backport docs of RAZZLE_TESTING_ADDONS environment variables. See https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/3067/files#diff-00609ed769cd40cf3bc3d6fcc4431b714cb37c73cedaaea18fe9fc4c1c589597 @stevepiercy
• Add missing developer-guidelines/typescript to toctree @stevepiercy
• Add Netlify for a preview of Sphinx builds for pull requests against `master` and `plone6-docs`. @stevepiercy
• Clean up toctree errors by removing obsolete files, adding `:orphan:` field list, and reorganizing some files. @sneridagh and @stevepiercy
• Switch to using netlify.toml to configure Netlify Python environment. @stevepiercy
• Convert admonition syntax from Markdown to MyST. @sneridagh
• Make links build both in Volto and Plone documentation. See https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/3094 @stevepiercy
• Fix StoryBook build @sneridagh

What's Next

Where do we go from here? Plone 6! Right now, the only major feature missing is content rules and the new Slate editor. The rest of Plone’s features are covered in Volto 16.

So the work is not over yet. We still need helping hands and contributors to continue the effort to make Plone 6 a reality. Everybody is welcome!

Thanks!

We would like to thank all the people involved in creating Volto 15. It is amazing how much we were able to accomplish as a team, and as a community, during the last months.

Once again this year members of the Plone open source community will mentor students and other young people interested in learning how to develop their skill and to contribute to an open source project. Plone has benefited greatly from the contributions of GSOC students since it began participating in the program in 2006. Many of those GSOC students have gone on to become core contributors to Plone as well as productive members of other open source software communities.

Students whose applications are accepted will work with a senior Plone programmer on one of a list of projects with the goal of making a contribution to the Plone code base or a related project. The Plone Foundation supports successful GSOC students by providing support for attending the annual Plone conference and for meeting other members of the diverse Plone / Python / Zope community.

Visit the GSOC home page and learn how to apply for the program

Check out our list of potential student projects for Plone in 2022

Student applications will open on April 4, 2022.

Join us !

The Plone Newsroom is a monthly podcast brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk. They cover technical and non-technical topics including Plone, the Plone community, and whatever else they come up with to keep us informed!

Episode #06 on 28 February 2022 featured news about new Foundation members and the 2022 Plone Conference dates, a discussion of the plone.org relaunch work and issues encountered, Volto, Classic and collective.exportimport development news, and a follow up to the composite page builders discussion in episode #05. Plus Philip and Fred issued a call for Volto translators and a call for World Plone Day talks. Go to the Newsroom page to view other episodes.

The Plone Foundation welcomes two new members after unanimous confirmation by the Foundation's Board of Directors on February 17, 2022.

Membership in the Foundation is conferred for significant and enduring contributions to the Plone project and community. The Plone Foundation Membership Committee overwhelmingly recommended each applicant for their ongoing contributions to Plone.

Giulia Ghisini

Giulia is a frontend developer who works on the Volto development team. She has sprinted at Sorrento once and has participated in Plone conferences since 2019.Giulia works at Red Turtle and lives in Ferrara, Italy.

Piero Nicolli

Piero also works with Red Turtle in Ferrara. He has been using Plone since 2015 and has made occasional contributions since then. Piero's focus has shifted to Volto after beginning with contributions on plonetheme.barceloneta and plone.staticresources. He is currently part of the Volto Team.

Piero attended Plone Conferences 2018, 2019 and 2021, and he helped organize the 2019 Ferrara conference. In addition to several sprints, Piero gave a talk about frontend development at PloneConf 2019 and about a use case for a repeatable Volto themes at PloneConf 2021. He is active on Discord from time to time and answer questions there when available.

Alessandro Pisa

Alessandro works remotely for Syslab from Ferrara (Italy) and has been
a Plone user and developer since 2008. He has been a Framework Team member since 2017. He is a Plone core developer and contributes and maintains some packages in the Plone ecosystem.

Alessandro is a long-time contributor to the community and helps to manage the collective organization on GitHub. He has attended many sprints and makes sure to reach out to newcomers when conference time comes around.

The Plone Foundation encourages applications from long time contributors to the Plone project and community. Learn more about the Foundation membership and the application process.

As described in the Foundation's July 2020 discussion of Plone governance, a series of Steering Circle meetings is being held to discuss our organizational structure and processes, and any hot topics of the moment. This is part of the Foundation's initiative to solicit ideas for changes that will better serve the needs of our community, our projects, and our teams. The meetings will be held every two months, and the next one will be Feburary 15th at 14:00 UTC (15:00 CEST). Each Plone team will send one or two representatives, including the Zope, Volto, RestAPI and Guillotina teams.

The Steering Circle meetings will include a discussion of questions from community members. Please use this form to submit any questions you have and we will put them on the agenda.

Thank you for being an awesome community and for helping to move Plone forward into its third decade!

Important security fix applied

See forum post for more details and easy workaround:
https://community.plone.org/t/security-fix-for-image-view-fullscreen-cache-poisoning/14757

See also CMFPlone security advisory on GitHub.

Plone is vulnerable to reflected cross site scripting and open redirect when an attacker can get a compromised version of the image_view_fullscreen page in a cache, for example in Varnish. The technique is known as cache poisoning.
Any later visitor can get redirected when clicking on a link on this page. Usually, only anonymous users are affected, but this depends on your cache settings.

All Plone versions are vulnerable. It depends on your Plone version and the Image content type which package is vulnerable: Products.CMFPlone, plone.app.contenttypes or Products.ATContentTypes.

The Plone Security Team has released fixes for Plone 5.2:

• plone.app.contenttypes 2.2.3 (see advisory)
• Products.ATContentTypes 3.0.6 (see advisory. If you are on Python 3 you will not be using this package.

and for Plone 6:

• plone.app.contenttypes 3.0.0a9 (see advisory)

Today, Plone 5.2.7 and 6.0.0a3 have been released with these updated packages. Separate announcements will follow.

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@plone.org. This is also the correct address to use when you want to report a possible vulnerability. See our security report policy.

Highlights of the Plone 6 Alpha 3 Release

https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a3

Plone 5.2.7 released

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.

https://plone.org/download/releases/5.2.7