diff --git a/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md index 662bf9d59f..a5b89d3f3c 100644 --- a/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md +++ b/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# Release notes for Plone 5.2.15 (pending) +# Release notes for Plone 5.2.15 -* Last updated: Tuesday July 30, 2024 +* Released: Thursday August 1, 2024 * This is expected to be the last maintenance release. Already one more than was promised. * Check the [release schedule](https://plone.org/download/release-schedule). * Read the [upgrade guide](https://5.docs.plone.org/manage/upgrading/version_specific_migration/upgrade_to_52.html), explaining the biggest changes compared to 5.1. @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Major changes since 5.2.14: * Add ``dos_protection`` config. With Zope 5.8.4+ you may get ``zExceptions.BadRequest: data exceeds memory limit`` when uploading an image or file of more than 1 MB. To increase this limit, you can add this in your instance recipe, and choose your own limit: `zope-conf-additional = form-memory-limit 4MB` * `plone.app.discussion`: Provide HCaptcha if `plone.formwidget.hcaptcha` is installed. Apply validation for all captchas. * `plone.restapi`: Added `@site` and `@navroot` endpoints. - +* For the rest see the full packages changelog linked above. ## Last maintenance release @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ At that moment, even Python 3.8 is out of security support by the Python communi This release supports Python 2.7 and 3.8. -Python 3.6 and 3.7 should still work, but these are end of life, untested, and no longer supported. +Python 3.6 and 3.7 should still work, but these are end-of-life, untested, and no longer supported. Plone 5.2 still supports Python 2.7, but this is end-of-life since 2020. It should only be used as a temporary stepping stone before you migrate your Plone site to Python 3. @@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ For installation instructions, see the [documentation](https://5.docs.plone.org/ There is still a [Unified Installer](https://launchpad.net/plone/5.2/5.2.15). One warning there: we could no longer test this on Python 2.7. It *should* work though. +For previous Plone 5.2 patch releases we always added all used package distributions on the dist.plone.org server, so you could use this as a "find-link" in Buildout or pip. +This was a historical practice, mostly to have a fallback when a distribution of a third party package was removed from the Python Package Index. +This problem hardly ever happens anymore, so the added value of uploading these distributions is questionable. +It turned out to be harder to gather all packages, so I abandoned it. +If you somehow need this, it should work fine to add the directory of the previous release to the find-links: +https://dist.plone.org/release/5.2.14/ +Only a few packages have different versions in 5.2.15. + + ## Issues If you find any issues, please report them in the [main issue tracker](https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues).