On behalf of Zope developer community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 5.13. This is mostly a bugfix release with one small feature addition, a new zope.conf configuration option to turn off processing of XML-RPC requests. It also drops support for Python 3.8, which has reached end of life status early October 2024. Developers, administrators and package maintainers please note: Due to compatibility issues between some recent setuptools and zc.buildout versions you should update all development and production virtual environments to use setuptools 75.8.2 and the latest release of zc.buildout, currently 4.1.4. The following pip invocation inside your virtual environment handles that: $ bin/pip install -U 'setuptools==75.8.2' 'zc.buildout>=4.1.4' For details of the changes see https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html To install the new version see https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL.html Jens Vagelpohl