Zope 6.0

Zope application server / web framework

 

Zope is an open-source web application server.

This document provides some general information about Zope and provides links to other documents. The full documentation can be found at https://zope.readthedocs.io.

Installation

Please visit the installation documentation at https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL.html for detailed installation guidance.

License

Zope is licensed under the OSI-approved Zope Public License (ZPL), version 2.1. The full license text is included in LICENSE.txt.

Bug tracker

Bugs reports should be made through the Zope bugtracker at https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/issues. A bug report should contain detailed information about how to reproduce the bug.

Change log

These are all changes for Zope 6.

The change log for Zope 4 is at https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/4.x/CHANGES.rst. The change log for Zope 5 is at https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/5.x/CHANGES.rst.

6.0 (2026-03-04)

• Fix bad calls to str in ZMI DTML templates to prevent name shadowing. (#1285)

• Update to newest compatible versions of dependencies.

6.0b2 (2026-01-15)

• Update to newest compatible versions of dependencies.

• Fix installation of console scripts.

6.0b1 (2025-11-22)

• Replace pkg_resources namespaces with PEP 420 native namespaces. This change requires using zc.buildout version 5.

• Drop support for Python 3.9.

• Switch from z3c.checkversions to plone.versioncheck to detect outdated dependency pins as z3c.checkversions no longer works and seems abandoned. See https://github.com/zopefoundation/z3c.checkversions/issues/32

• Update to newest compatible versions of dependencies.

• Enable multipart/form-data and application/x-www-form-urlencoded support for PATCH requests.