- prepare release 6.0b1

Author: dataflake

CHANGES.rst

@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 Change log
 ==========
 
-These are all the changes for Zope 5, starting with the alpha releases,
-since the branch point at Zope 4.1.2.
+These are all the changes for Zope since the first Zope 5 alpha release.
 
-The change log for the previous version, Zope 4, is at
+The change log for Zope 4 is at
 https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/4.x/CHANGES.rst
 
-6.0 (unreleased)
-----------------
 
-- Replace ``pkg_resources`` namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.
+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.
 
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/4.x/CHANGES.rst
 - Enable multipart/form-data and application/x-www-form-urlencoded support
   for PATCH requests.
 
+
 5.13 (2025-03-18)
 -----------------
 

constraints.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+Zope==6.0b1
 AccessControl==7.3
 Acquisition==6.2
 AuthEncoding==6.0

docs/conf.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 author = 'The Zope developer community'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '%s.%s' % tuple(map(int, rqmt.version.split('.')[:2]))
+version = '%s.%s' % tuple(rqmt.version.split('.')[:2])
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
 release = rqmt.version
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "Zope"
-version = "6.0.dev0"
+version = "6.0b1"
 description = "Zope application server / web framework"
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"

requirements-full.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--e git+https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope.git@master#egg=Zope
+Zope==6.0b1
 AccessControl==7.3
 Acquisition==6.2
 AuthEncoding==6.0

versions-prod.cfg

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [versionannotations]
 
 [versions]
-Zope =
+Zope = 6.0b1
 Zope2 = 4.0
 AccessControl = 7.3
 Acquisition = 6.2