The core team is proud to announce TYPO3 v8.6 has been released today. This sprint release is an important and last step before TYPO3 8 LTS scheduled to be published in April 2017. With one exception, TYPO3 v8.6 defines the feature set of the LTS version and brings an impressive set of changes, many of them turning preparations from earlier version 8 releases into visible functionality.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://typo3.org/article/typo3-v86-released/