Zope development roadmap

The Zope development and support roadmap. Last updated: April 2022

If you use Plone, please visit the Plone release schedule for all Plone-specific details. Support for Zope releases aims to track support for the respective Plone version(s) built on top of them.

Warning

Zope used to have a policy whereby a given Zope release series will not drop support for any Python version it supported at the start of the release series. Such a change would require a new major Zope release. However, given how fast Python releases are coming, we cannot follow that policy anymore.

Starting with Zope 5, when a Python version reaches End Of Life status, we may remove support for it in a following feature (minor) release. This is the planned support drop schedule:

  • Python 3.6 support was deprecated with Zope version 5.5.1 and will be dropped by Zope version 5.7.

Zope 6 - future version

At this moment there are no planned or actual changes that introduce backwards incompatibilities and thus merit a new major version, so there is no planned release date for Zope 6. All development still happens on Zope 5.

Zope 5 - stable version

Plone 6, which is still under development, will use Zope 5.

  • Python support:

    Warning

    The default WSGI server component used by Zope, waitress, is affected by an important security issue. For a fix you must either upgrade to Python 3.7 or higher, or switch to a different WSGI server.

    • 3.6 (Deprecated with Zope version 5.5.1, will be dropped in Zope version 5.7)

    • 3.7

    • 3.8

    • 3.9

    • 3.10 (new with Zope version 5.4)

  • Support schedule:

    • Full support: ongoing

    • Bug fixes: ongoing

    • Security fixes: ongoing

Zope 4 - bridge from Zope 2 to Zope 5

The Plone 5.2 release series, which is the current stable release series for Plone, uses Zope 4.

Zope 4 supports Python 2 and Python 3. It is meant to act as a bridge for those upgrading applications from Zope 2. Once you are on Zope 4 and Python 3 the next step to Zope 5 is painless and we strongly encourage you to move to Zope 5.

  • Python support:

    Warning

    The default WSGI server component used by Zope, waitress, is affected by an important security issue. For a fix you must either upgrade to Python 3.7 or higher, or switch to a different WSGI server.

    • 2.7

    • 3.5

    • 3.6

    • 3.7

    • 3.8

  • Support schedule:

    • Full support: ended on 2020-10-08 (the Zope 5.0 release date)

    • Bug fixes: until 2022-12-31

    • Security fixes: until 2022-12-31

Zope 2.13 - old version

Plone 4.3, 5.0 and 5.1 are running on top of Zope 2.13. Zope 2.13 is no longer officially supported.

  • Python support:

    • 2.7

  • Support schedule:

    • Full support: ended

    • Bug fixes: ended

    • Security fixes: ended