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Hello fellow Blacklighters, Last week, 30 representatives from 13 institutions gathered at the Blacklight Summit hosted by the Princeton University Library. The event featured demonstrations of Blacklight-powered applications and sessions about enhancing Blacklight applications. Notes from the event’s activities are available on the Blacklight Summit Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/10f9c8uBUls_WvdZvkB64fegslPVF5A1YvVgZRGC76BE/edit#> . The summit participants discussed the upcoming 6.0 release and future directions for Project Blacklight. On Sunday morning, Chris Beer sent out release notes for a version 6 pre-release <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/releases/tag/v6.0.0.pre3>, which summarize the main upcoming changes. Several of the plugins for Blacklight were updated throughout the summit so that they will be able to support version 6. These include blacklight_advanced_search <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight_advanced_search>, hydra-head <https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra-head>, geoblacklight <https://github.com/geoblacklight/geoblacklight>, blacklight_folders <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight_folders>, blacklight_range_limit <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight_range_limit>, blacklight-marc <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight-marc>, blacklight-maps <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight-maps>, and blacklight-gallery <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight-gallery> . The group consensus was that another Blacklight community knowledge-sharing event should definitely occur in the future, either again at Princeton or at another institution. The Princeton University Library is looking at potentially host another similar event next fall during the week of October 29th-November 6th, 2016. Thanks to all of the event attendees, who made the Blacklight Summit a success. Best, Nikitas Tampakis Ruby on Rails Developer Princeton University Library