News Archive

This time I should be using the old names "Phoenix" and "FLOW3" still, as this is about last month - but let's cut the red tape this time, ok? So, what has happened in September?

The release of TYPO3 6.0 has been postponed for 4 weeks

Here it is, the T3BOARD13 registration Link! The Registration will open next Monday, 8th of October, 10:00 am (CEST)

All budget applications for 2013 are online. Feedback required from you!

On August 13, a combined EAB and Board Meeting (CEBAB) took place in Düsseldorf. The EAB and Board met to discuss the revised TYPO3 Association budget process and various other topics.The following people attended the meeting:TYPO3 Association Board:- Gina Steiner (GS)- Jürgen Egeling (EG)- ...

The TYPO3 world is evolving. Rapidly. 15 years after Kasper Skaarhoj typed the first line of code for our most beloved content management system TYPO3, we - the TYPO3 community - have so many ways of connecting and sharing. Different ways to share by coding with TypoScript, Fluid, Extbase and ...

On Monday, October 8th 2012 10:00 am (CEST) it’s time again to start the registration for the next year’s snowboard-tour at Schmittenhöhe / Zell am See / Austria 15.02. – 22.02.2013. You'll get the ...

As part of the 1000th book celebration, Packt is allocating $30,000 to share between projects and authors, based on the number of copies of the titles downloaded during the week following the ...

Long time no news, but the project has progressed a lot in the meantime. Read on to learn more about the status and about how you can help.

In the month of August the budget applications were submitted, a Phoenix Sprint Release was done, the TYPO3 4.x branch had two updates, the T3CON12 Paper Voting Results were announced, there was a ...

Since 6.0 beta1 feature freeze is in effect main development focus of beta2 was on stabilization and bugfixing.  Within short time period between beta1 and beta2, over onehundred patches went into the core. There are still lots of things to do for a stable release and several ...

TYPO3camp Mallorca is the first international TYPO3camp. This year there are already 7 TYPO3camps in Germany and these initiatives are spreading.

T3CON12 ASIA, Asia's first TYPO3 conference took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 17 - 19 August 2012. More than 20 talks provided an insight into web and mobile technology, IT Business Best Practices and featured the powerful TYPO3 CMS and its community.

The Phoenix Code Sprint in Copenhagen started in full force this Tuesday. Monday was used to prepare things for the sprint with 6 people who already arrived on Sunday.

Dear TYPO3 community, yesterday Daniel Doesburg, a Dutch TYPO3 free-lancer died at the age of 62. Daniel was a co-organiser of the Dutch TYPO3 congress, a valued free-lancer and active in several parts of the Dutch TYPO3 community. Daniel was well-known in the Dutch community, but also beyond, as a ...

In August FLOW3 1.1 was released - so now there is no excuse anymore not to use the latest and greatest version of the framework. Work on Phoenix proceeded as well, to lay a nice foundation for the September code sprint in Copenhagen.

Since 2011 the Association created two important committes: The Business Control Committee (BCC) and the Expert Adisory Board (EAB). Both committes are elected by the members of the TYPO3 Association - that is you!

The TYPO3 Community has been buzzing with activity the last few weeks, peaking the last 7 days. One reason for this rush in activity is the switch in the TYPO3 Core to support and use PHP 5.3 ...

From September 3 until September 9 a code sprint will be held in Copenhagen to work on the first version of what we still call Phoenix. Phoenix is the next generation CMS built upon our newly ...

Thursday August 9th, found the Internet pipes of Venlo Netherlands heating up as members of the TYPO3 Introduction Package team came together for a 4-day code sprint.

This article describes the use of funds granted to the TYPO3 Phoenix and FLOW3 project in 2012 until now.

After the restructuring in spring the TYPO3 Extbase Team has been busy. Regular meeting have been picked up again and a code sprint in Stuttgart brought some news.

The FLOW3 team is delighted to announce the release of FLOW3 1.1. With over 100 new features and 250 stability and speed improvements this version marks an important milestone for those who stayed observant after the first stable release in October last year. FLOW3 is now ready for the game and a ...

FLOW3 1.0.6, the sixth patch release of the PHP application framework has been released.

The release of TYPO3 6.0 beta1 was scheduled to be released this week also marking the feature freeze.

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.5.19, 4.6.12 and 4.7.4 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.

At the beginning of this week, the T3CON12DE team went through all submitted papers, sorted out duplicates and discussed their relevance for the visitors of the conference. This year, a plenty of great talks have been submitted and the organizers spontaneously decided to do a community voting. That ...

We are announcing the release of the following TYPO3 updates: TYPO3 4.5.18TYPO3 4.6.11TYPO3 4.7.3 All versions are maintenance releases and contain bug fixes only. For details about the releases, please visit the following ...

The releases kept coming in July: FLOW3 1.1 RC2 and TYPO3 Phoenix sprint release 9 were published. But, due to holidays being in full swing, the final release of FLOW3 1.1 did not happen last month… Read on for what the team did achieve!

The Professional Service Listing is the official list of TYPO3 professional agencies and companies. In April 2012, the current list replaced the old agency and professional listings and also introduced quality standard rules for listed companies and individuals.

One month after Sprint Release 8, the core team is excited to announce the 9th Sprint Release of the new CMS with the code name "Phoenix".

The budgetary process 2013 has officially started. Download your copy of the application form and send in your proposal not later then 31st of August.

Robert Lemke will present FLOW3 at Campus Party Europe in Berlin, the biggest technology entertainment event on the planet.

The TYPO3 Conference Team is happy to announce that the paper voting for the TYPO3 Conference in Germany (October 4th - 6th) is now open for everyone.

The TYPO3 Core Development Team and the TYPO3 Community just released a new alpha version of TYPO3 6.0

Insprired by previous code sprints, the TYPO3 community in Freiburg, Germany decided to organize a local code sprint. From Friday, July 13th to Sunday, July 15th ten TYPO3 developers met for a code sprint. After all it was a great success for the TYPO3 project. Participants The original ...

The TYPO3 Security Team has new leaders. Georg Ringer will take over the team lead, while Franz G. Jahn and Helmut Hummel became Co-Leader

The second release candidate of version 1.1 of the FLOW3 PHP application framework has been published. We present this RC instead of the planned stable release to be sure the included fixes work for everyone.

TYPO3 Phoenix Sprint 8 Released, TYPO3 6.0 alpha2 released, FLOW3 1.0.5 and 1.1 rc 1 released. New website for Phoenix.

TYPO3 Integrator Certificates have a new validity time period due to the versioning change within the TYPO3 project.

We kindly ask the community for help with collecting screenshots of the TYPO3 backend.

Usage of ReStructured Text for all official manuals enables an improved documentation workflow.

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.5.17, 4.6.10 and 4.7.2 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.

June was a good month: FLOW3 users saw the release of 1.0.5 and 1.1 RC1, we finally had a sprint release of TYPO3 Phoenix again and the website for the european T3CON12 was launched. And the team got a little bigger: Welcome Ryan and Jacob!

The organization team of the international TYPO3 Conference 2012 T3CON12 Germany is happy to announce that the call for papers is officially open for your suggestions. Please visit http://t3con12de.typo3.org/call-for-papers.html

Today the TYPO3 Phoenix team has released Sprint Release 8. It has been a while since the last release, but we are on a steady pace of releases from now on.

The Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) is an open source community that aims to bring semantic technologies to CMS platforms. TYPO3 Phoenix is an early adaptor.

The TYPO3 Core Development Team and the TYPO3 Community just released a new alpha version of TYPO3 6.0

The first release candidate of version 1.1 of the FLOW3 PHP application framework has been published.

Announcing an additional TYPO3 Code Sprint in Freiburg/Germany from July 13 - July 15.

On March, 19th the constitutional meeting of the first Expert Advisory Board (EAB) has been held. Now, 100 days later it is time to recap and report.

The month of May saw the kick-off for TYPO3 version 6.0 with a first alpha release of version 6.0 and two FLOW3 beta releases.

The TYPO3 Certification Team is taking exams for at least 4 years now and is ready to take a next step, introducing the 'Certified TYPO3 Developer'. The team needs you to make it come true.

The FLOW3 team announces the release of FLOW3 1.1 beta 3. After the release of the second beta, we have fixed a number of issues and present this third beta for getting feedback from the FLOW3 community before a release candidate.

From friday 15.6.2012 to 17.6.2012 a small team met in Hamburg for a code sprint session with the topic "Bootstrap refactoring for upcoming TYPO3 6.0".

The TYPO3 Association's call for budget applications 2013 is starting on 1.8.2012 and is ending on 31.8.2012

Brand manager, Rasmus Skjoldan, on the branding work going on in the TYPO3 community

Some very useful tables to give a quick overview about the features in different versions of Extbase and Fluid.

Announcing the topics and dates for the upcoming codesprints for TYPO3 6.0

Two things were different in May than in the months before: we had a small code sprint devoted to Phoenix and the Package Builder in Venlo and we published two beta versions of the upcoming FLOW3 1.1 release.

FLOW3 1.0.5, the fifth patch release of the PHP application framework has been released.

The FLOW3 team is pleased to announce the release of FLOW3 1.1 beta 2. About two weeks after the release of the first beta, we have now all features for FLOW3 1.1 in place and present this second beta for getting feedback from the FLOW3 community.

Preparing for this article, I asked Patrick Gaumond, conference organizer: "What will T3CON12 Canada be like?" He answered: "It will be fantastic!" Let's have a closer look.

The TYPO3 Core Development Team and the TYPO3 Community is proud to present a sneak preview of the next TYPO3 Version 6.0

The relaunch of typo3.org kicked of the month of April. The seventh edition of the TYPO3 Developer Days took place from April 12 - 15, 2012 at MACE, Unterföhring near Munich, Germany and the month closed with the release of TYPO3 version 4.7 on April 24.

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.5.16, 4.6.9 and 4.7.1 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.

The members of the different bodies (Board, BCC and EAB) of the TYPO3 Association met on March 19 and March 20 in Düsseldorf to initiate the new TYPO3 Association structure.

As already announced, the release of TYPO3 6.0 will be this fall. To be precise: We scheduled the final release to be on 27th of October this year.

The FLOW3 team is pleased to announce the release of FLOW3 1.1 beta 1. After several months of development, we have now closed the lid of the feature box and present this first beta for getting feedback from the FLOW3 community.

Back on track, embracing the Future. Our ideas for the upcoming TYPO3 6.0 release.

The major event for the TYPO3 community in April surely were the TYPO3 Developer Days in Munich. We had handed in a number of session and workshop proposals centered around Phoenix and FLOW3 - and were overwhelmed by the response we had. Afterwards the focus of a part of the team went back to ...

The twelfth Edition of the T3BOARD will be in Austria next year! For the second time we'll be on the Schmittenhöhe Hotel near Zell am See. This time we made sure that we'll be early in the season so ...

TYPO3camp Stuttgart kicks of a whole new series of TYPO3camps for 2012. The latest version of this successful TYPO3camp took place from April 27 - April 29.

The TYPO3Wiki has been updated with a new skin which brings it in line with the new design of typo3.org.

Generally the TYPO3 Developer Days 2012 were very motivating, we talked to lots of people and had a very positive and intense time. Finally, it feels like FLOW3 is getting real and people start to gasp that Phoenix is at the horizon.

Introducing the Release Management Team for the upcoming TYPO3 version 6.0

You might already read the article on typo3.org about our own approach of a Summer of Code. It really happens!

The TYPO3 Community and the TYPO3 Core Development team is proud to announce the release of the final version TYPO3 4.7.0. TYPO3 4.7 concentrates on standards and accessibility while continuing the deprecation clean-up process started with TYPO3 4.6. As always a smooth migration and backwards ...

March had three main events. CeBIT in Hannover, the FLOW3 conference in Rosenheim and the typo3.org relaunch sprint, which resulted in the relaunch of typo3.org on April 2.

Just one week and the last milestone release of the TYPO3 4.x branch will be released. What will you do to celebrate this?

Today the last preview release of TYPO3 4.7 has been released by the TYPO3 community as a final step towards TYPO3 4.7.0.

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.4.15, 4.5.15 and 4.6.8 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System. We are announcing the release of the following TYPO3 updates: TYPO3 4.4.15TYPO3 4.5.15TYPO3 4.6.8 All versions are maintenance releases and contain bug and security ...

This year's Developer Days (T3DD12) took place at MACE (Meeting, Appointment, Catering, Event), an extraordinary meeting centre in Munich’s suburb Unterföhring.

The TYPO3 community released TYPO3 4.7 Release Candidate 1 as preview to the final release of 4.7.0, which will be released on April 24th, 2012.

March turned out to be a rather slow month when it comes to Phoenix. Mostly due to customer projects and issues like private lifes, the Phoenix team members could work very little on the project, while Robert and me still had our hands and brains deep inside FLOW3.

This year Google accepted 180 organizations to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Unfortunately TYPO3 is not one of them this time.

FLOW3 1.0.4, the fourth patch release of the PHP application framework has been released. Among some bugs it also fixes a security issue. The security issue fixed with this release has no known exploit, but that doesn't mean you should not update. Details on the issue can be found in the security ...

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.4.14, 4.5.14 and 4.6.7 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System. We are announcing the release of the following TYPO3 updates: TYPO3 4.4.14TYPO3 4.5.14TYPO3 4.6.7 All versions are maintenance releases and contain bug and security ...

The TYPO3 community released TYPO3 4.7 beta3 as the next step on our roadmap to the final release of 4.7.0, which will be released on April 24th, 2012. As usual, beta versions only includes bug fixes. On our road to the final release, two release candidates will follow in the next four ...

The month of February had many TYPO3 enthusiasts heading to the slopes of Crap Sogn Gion, Laax, Switzerland to enjoy the fine powder under excellent weather conditions. Discussions and decisions made at the Snowboard Tour are still echoing in the month of March.

After a long time of preparation the relaunch of April 2nd will merge the existing websites typo3.com and typo3.org into one typo3.org. This website will be the communication tool for the TYPO3 community.  A big thank you goes out to the typo3.org relaunch team consisting of so many ...

TYPO3 was present at CeBIT in hall 6 together with other open source systems in a project stand sponsored by Mittwald. The TYPO3 CeBIT team was larger than last year and has been busy all week ...

The TYPO3 community released TYPO3 4.7 beta2 as the next step on our roadmap to the final release of 4.7.0, which will be released on April 24th, 2012. With the release of beta1 we have reached "Feature Freeze" for the upcoming version and thus will be focused on fixing bugs only. This ...

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.5.13 and 4.6.6 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System. We are announcing the release of the following TYPO3 updates: TYPO3 4.5.13TYPO3 4.6.6 All versions are maintenance releases and contain bugfixes only. Since the previois releases of TYPO3 ...

During this years Budget Meeting the Board and Steering Committee of the TYPO3 Association decided to raise the annual membership fees as of 2012-04-01. The membership fees changed as follows:   Bronze membership from 100 € to 105 € per annum Silver membership from 700 € ...

After a long period of work behind the scenes (localization, translation, speed, workspaces, content rendering, FLOW3 1.0 and so on), the TYPO3 Phoenix team today kickstarted a new sprint. The goal is a release which is suitable for truly managing the FLOW3 and conference websites through the user ...

The most awesome TYPO3 event has come to an end. After the interim report from the TYPO3 snowboard tour in Laax, Peter Kraume, reports on the snowboard tour again.. After the soccer tournament the players and visitors spread over Laax and Flims to dive into the nightlife. At 3 a.m. a special ...

FLOW3 1.1 will contain a powerful framework to create web forms, along with a graphical IDE for creating and editing them. Read on for details and a screencast! If you are more the visual type of person, head straight over to the screencast which demonstrates the Form ...

This article describes the use of funds granted to the TYPO3 Phoenix and FLOW3 project in 2011 and explains the budget application we handed in (and had granted) for 2012.

A wide range of decisions, from detailed level to strategic, are taken everyday in the TYPO3 project. Most of these decisions are the result of initiatives brought up by individuals. While a lot of these decisions are taken in teams or committees, the paths are not always visible to the whole ...