On behalf of Zope developer community I am pleased to announce the releases of 
Zope 4.8.1 and 5.5.1.

These bugfix releases attempt to address an important security issue in the 
waitress WSGI server software that Zope uses as default WSGI server component. 
Unfortunately the fixed waitress version 2.1.1 has only been released for 
Python versions 3.7 and higher.

Zope 4.8.1 and 5.5.1 now require the fixed waitress package IF it is running on 
Python 3.7 or higher. Previous Python versions do not have the security fix and 
we as Zope maintainers cannot provide a fixed waitress release for deployments 
on Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6.

Even though Zope 4 still supports Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 and Zope 5 still 
supports Python 3.6 we strongly advise you to either upgrade your Zope 
installation to at least Python 3.7, or switch to a different WSGI server. See 
https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/operation.html#recommended-wsgi-servers 
for some choices.

For the full list of changes see the change logs at 
https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/4.x/changes.html#id1 and 
https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html#id1.

Installation instructions can be found at 
https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/4.x/INSTALL.html and 
https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL.html.

Detailed information about the waitress security issue is available at 
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4f7p-27jc-3c36.


Jens Vagelpohl

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