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While we were chatting and relaxing, Release Manager Maurits van Rees finished the Release Candidate of Plone 6.0.7 on the same day. You can find this pre release announced on community.plone.org with all details, please test if you have some time available, so we can have a stable final release next week.But there was plenty to talk about nonetheless:Plone 6.0.6 and previous (6.0.5/6.0.4) releases, highlightsPlone 5.2.13Volto updates and features in the 17 alpha releasesClassic-UI Team startupPlone Foundation news7 new members welcomed to the FoundationVote on proposes changed to the Plone Foundation BylawsRecent Sprints held in May and June 2023.Beethoven Sprint, BonnMidsummer Sprint, JyväskyläCerrado Sprint, BrasiliaUpcoming EventsMonthly Plone Tune-Up day, September 15th onlinePloneConf 2023, October 2nd- to 8th, EibarAnd we had some time left to discuss add'ons.Fred mentions a number of small add'ons for Plone 6 Classic-UI, that you could add to your projects' policy or content packages but is easier to add and activate :collective.mosaicpage (Zest)collective.abovecontenttitleportlets & collective.belowcontentportlets (Zest)collective.tiles.collection (Redturtle)collective.tiles.discussion  (derived from collective.portlet.dicussion)Philip discusses 4 ways to add Drop Down menu's to a Volto base Plone websitevolto-navigation-dropdown , by Ken Manheimer, with a nice discussion on community.plone.org while he designed and developed the add'on.volto-menu-customization (CodeSyntax)volto-dropdownmenu, (RedTurtle)And finally we ponder about the possibility of a Plone 6.1 alpha release before PloneConf.We hope you enjoy this new podcast, hope to see you online soon or in person at PloneConf in October!