Developer guide

Get Zotonic

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Choose a release or a development checkout and follow the installation guide.

Use Zotonic releases for a tagged release. Read its requirements and upgrade notes before using it with an existing database.

For a development checkout:

git clone https://github.com/zotonic/zotonic.git
cd zotonic

Then follow the local-environment guide: choose containers, a native installation, or Nix; prepare dependencies; build; start; and create a practice site. This documentation advises Erlang/OTP 28. Use a supported PostgreSQL major release that meets Zotonic's requirements, with its current maintenance updates.

Do not treat the old 1.0.0-rc.7 download link as the current release, or use the unauthenticated git:// clone URL from older instructions.

Documentation

Release Notes

Every time a Zotonic release is made, we create a document which lists the most important changes. This page contains links to the release notes for each…

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Further reading

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