The word from Wichert Akkerman, Plone 3.0 Release Manager is out: Plone 3.0 has been tagged, installers are being built over the weekend, and Plone will be formally released on Tuesday, August 21st!

Plone 3.0 is a big release, perhaps the most ambitious Plone release ever, the product of over a year of work from the Plone team. For a quick overview of the highlights, see "8 Really Cool Things About Plone 3.0" which I wrote a few weeks back.  Alex Limi has also written more in-depth information on Plone 3.0's features.  Long story short: it will blow your socks off. :-)

Congraluations Wichert, Martin, Alex, Hanno, and to the hundreds of other folks who have helped deliver Plone 3.0 to the world.  I'm looking forward to the honor of introducing Plone 3.0 with Martin and Wichert at Plone Conference 2007 in Naples this October.