TYPO3 4.2 Beta 2

So what has changed? Cleaner Backend Project The new editor toolbar is now added to nearly every core backend module making the backend look even more consistent. Tabs as in the page properties were also introduced for content elements, frontend users, frontend usergroups, backend users, backend usergroups, and TypoScript templates so that fields are now grouped and can be found faster. The new shortcut menu got a small help text when there are not shortcuts added yet. One more thing(s) This release features our one more thing for TYPO3 4.2. The Web Access module has gained AJAX support. When setting permissions for users or groups you can now directly click the setting you want to change to toggle between allowed and disallowed in the permissions matrix. Give it a try! The "Open Documents" extension listing all backend forms you've currently opened, has seen another bunch of improvements under the hood; yet some necessary CSS changes have not yet gone in, so test it, but don't expect it to look good yet! The TypoScript editor with highlighting and all sorts of features which make editing a breeze has been fixed to work correctly in Firefox 2 now. However, Internet Explorer support seems to be broken right now, but the author Tobias Liebig is already working on a fix. If you notice any bugs with T3Editor on Firefox in this release, don't hesitate to report the bug either on the dev mailinglist or in the bugtracker. A small feature which comes in handy when you're using IRRE to manage your data collections is the possibility to hide tables from the "New record" link in the backend by means of the TSConfig option "mod.web_list.deniedNewTables", so you can finally ensure that IRRE child tables are only created and edited from within their parent record. Negative Timestamps One thing those of you who are born before the date of 01/01/1970 will especially appreciate is that you will now be able to save your birth date in date/datetime fields in backend forms. This was actually an issue with PHP on some operating systems which was fixed in PHP 5.1. TYPO3 now makes use of the fixed issues and can now internally handle "negative timestamps" which makes it possibe to save dates starting from 1902 (still with an upper limit of year 2038). Linking across domains in a tree When you have more than one domain in your tree, like www.example.com and other.example.com a link from the former to the later would result in awrong link with the wrong domain. This issue was resolved and an updated version of EXT:realurl making use of that should be available soon, too. Performance improvements In an attempt to clean up the important library t3lib_div some slow PHP functions were replaced by faster ones. Bugfixes A lot of minor bugfixes were added, especially concerning CSS styling issues and JavaScript errors. Nested *_INT TypoScript objects were not woking, this has been fixed. All other fixes are rather minor and can be looked up in the ChangeLog. Reminder: Raised minimum PHP version requirement To run TYPO3 4.2beta2 you need to have <link http: buzz.typo3.org people stucki article leaving-php4-behind>at least PHP 5.2. This move was necessary to use PHP features introduced since PHP 5.0. As always Other then the highlighted bug fixes, performance improvements, and enthusiasm we again put lots of love into this release. A special thanks for the help in making this release what it is goes to the core team and all engaged community developers. Next steps to 4.2 final Please test this beta version as much as possible, especially the new features from the previous alpha releases and those described above! If you're using one of the new features in a project of yours already and discover bugs, please report them immediately to <link http: bugs.typo3.org>bugs.typo3.org! Due to some bigger issues with broken handling of client/server timezone calculation that have poped up meanwhile we will need to have a third beta release to get everything fixed and tested properly to keep our high quality standards. Beta3 is expexted within the next one or two weeks, after that we want to start release candidate phase so that the new target for a final release of TYPO3 4.2 is now mid to end of March. For a detailed overview of the features planned for 4.2 and their progress, have a look at the <link http: wiki.typo3.org index.php>4.2 Development wiki page, the <link http: bugs.typo3.org>bugtracker, and the <link http: typo3.svn.sourceforge.net viewvc typo3 typo3core branches typo3_4-2>ChangeLog. You can download the packages at <link http: typo3.org download packages>typo3.org/download/packages/. MD5 Sums:

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