Members Have Selected Four Ideas to be Funded in Quarter 4/2025

On 24 August 2025, we launched the community budget process for Q4/2025. The TYPO3 Association members were asked to vote on their favorites. As a result of 144 votes, the TYPO3 Association has granted budgets totalling €26,500 to four ideas.

Overall Voting Results

Summary of the Four Selected Ideas

Starting in Q4/2025, all funded ideas are seeking to align with the high-level objectives of the strategic goals for TYPO3 v14. The following four Ideas clearly demonstrate how they contribute to the long-term vision of TYPO3. Each summarized idea with a brief explanation of their strategic impact.

• Create remaining Rector rules for TYPO3 14 and add new features for Fractor by Simon Schaufelberger will make Automate TYPO3 Upgrades up to TYPO3 v14 with the help of Rector and Fractor. Rector is quite popular in the TYPO3 Community already, but it seems like Fractor is not yet well known. Fractor still misses some features that are important for a strong product. (€10,000)
• Adopt TYPO3 Extension news to latest best practice features by Georg Ringer will improve the extension News system (news). It is one of the most-used extensions, with 70,000 downloads per month. A lot of people approach me and tell me that if they need an idea how to implement features in their own extension, they always check it and find useful implementations there. However, the extension does not yet use all of the latest features and that should be improved. (€5,000)
• Web application firewall (firewall) by Sascha Egerer addresses the increasing threat from automated attacks on websites. Existing mitigation solutions often require server access or expensive external services unsuitable for managed hosting. This extension addresses this by implementing a modular, rule-based firewall directly in TYPO3's application layer that evaluates requests early and assigns attack scores to block malicious traffic. Built on a standalone Composer package, for cross-ecosystem adoption, its architecture combines synchronous Handlers for immediate validation, asynchronous RequestProcessors for scoring, Analyzers for threshold evaluation, and flexible BlockAdapters supporting various enforcement methods from simple denials to Redis-based filtering, making it both performant and extensible for custom security requirements. (€10,000)
• Enhanced Email Configuration with Multiple Senders and Automated Validation by Marco Pfeiffer will extend TYPO3’s email configuration to support multiple sender addresses instead of just one default sender. Extensions can then choose from a predefined list of validated senders. Additionally, implement comprehensive email configuration validation on the system status page, checking SPF records, MX records, and sender existence to prevent email delivery issues. (€1,500)

The winners will now start to work on their projects. They will be supported by the Business Control Committee (BCC). The people responsible for each idea project will report about their progress at typo3.org. If they succeed, they will be paid their allotted budget.

From the BCC’s point of view, all ideas would have been worth funding. Having a look at the voting results, we do see favorites, but the results in the main field are very close and a few more votes could have changed the overall results.

The results of the previous budgets are already published at typo3.org. In the following weeks results of all selected budgets will be published.

Timeline for Budget Ideas 2025

Q4/2025

• 11 August 2025 — Announcement — Call for budget ideas Q4
• 21 August 2025 — Deadline for submission of budget ideas
• 28 August 2025 — Ideas will be published and voting process starts
• 26 September 2025 — Voting process ends
• 30 September 2025 — Budgets granted
• 1 October 2025 — Work on idea projects start
• 15 December 2025 — Work on idea projects end