While we were chatting and relaxing, Release Manager Maurits van Rees finished the Release Candidate of Plone 6.0.7 on the same day. You can find this pre release announced on community.plone.org with all details, please test if you have some time available, so we can have a stable final release next week.

But there was plenty to talk about nonetheless:

• Plone 6.0.6 and previous (6.0.5/6.0.4) releases, highlights
• Plone 5.2.13
• Volto updates and features in the 17 alpha releases
• Classic-UI Team startup
• Plone Foundation news
• 7 new members welcomed to the Foundation
• Vote on proposes changed to the Plone Foundation Bylaws
• Recent Sprints held in May and June 2023.
• Beethoven Sprint, Bonn
• Midsummer Sprint, Jyväskylä
• Cerrado Sprint, Brasilia
• Upcoming Events
• Monthly Plone Tune-Up day, September 15th online
• PloneConf 2023, October 2nd- to 8th, Eibar
• And we had some time left to discuss add'ons.
• Fred mentions a number of small add'ons for Plone 6 Classic-UI, that you could add to your projects' policy or content packages but is easier to add and activate :
• collective.mosaicpage (Zest)
• collective.abovecontenttitleportlets & collective.belowcontentportlets (Zest)
• collective.tiles.collection (Redturtle)
• collective.tiles.discussion (derived from collective.portlet.dicussion)
• Philip discusses 4 ways to add Drop Down menu's to a Volto base Plone website
• volto-navigation-dropdown , by Ken Manheimer, with a nice discussion on community.plone.org while he designed and developed the add'on.
• volto-menu-customization (CodeSyntax)
• volto-dropdownmenu, (RedTurtle)
• And finally we ponder about the possibility of a Plone 6.1 alpha release before PloneConf.
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We hope you enjoy this new podcast, hope to see you online soon or in person at PloneConf in October!

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Topics discussed in this episode of The Plone Newsroom:

• The PloneConf 2023 website is live and one of the keynote speakers is announced: Olatz Perez de Viñaspre, an associate professor at the University of the Basque Country.
• The Alpine City Sprint 2023 held in Innsbruck in February 6th to 10th
• Plone 6.0.3 and 6.0.4 releases, with their releated Volto 16 updated releases
• The Plone 5.1.12 release
• where the control panel now shows a warning if you use an unsupported Python version with Plone 5.2
• Upcoming events: World Plone Day 2023. Oh wait, this TPN episode is one of the many great video's aired during World Plone Day
• The upcoming Beethoven Sprint in Bonn, Germany in May.
• The Midsummer Sprint in Jyväskylä, Finland planned at the end of June.
• And we discuss 'strategic tasks for for Plone'

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Topics discussed in this podcast:

• The Alpine City Sprint 2023 held in Innsbruck in February 6th to 10th
• Plone 6.0.2 release
• News about the Mastering Plone Training
• Upcoming events: World Plone Day, submit a talk if you haven't so!
• And the date of the Beethoven Sprint is now public: 15th to 19th of May.
• We discuss some results / aera's worked on in Innsbruck like the Plone Addon Gallery, The Plone Architecture definition, and there is a new and promising implemtnation for Plone Distributions.

Our feature of this week deals with Container/Docker based Development and Deployment, which was also a fiercely worked on topic at the Sprint

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