Hi there, on behalf of the Zope community it is my pleasure to announce the release of a new maintenance release of Zope 2.12.8 - most noteworthy it should install on FreeBSD now. I'm also happy to announce the first alpha release of the next major version 2.13.0a1. You can read all the news at http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.13/WHATSNEW.html and in the detailed change log. We'll continue to work on more alpha releases during the summer and wrap up a beta in September. I expect to see more work being done on WSGI documentation and setup procedure and proper Zope Toolkit integration amongst others. While this release is marked as alpha, it should already be extremely stable, so it is worth testing your applications and code against it. Many thanks to everyone who contributed! Hanno