Today, the TYPO3 community released the first alpha version of TYPO3 4.5. This marks the start of our journey to the first TYPO3 release ever to have long term support (LTS).
Today, the TYPO3 community released the first alpha version of TYPO3 4.5. This marks the start of our journey to the first TYPO3 release ever to have long term support (LTS). Release 4.5.0 will be ready by January 2011. This alpha version is a "developer snapshot" to show the progress so far.
What happened so far?
After the kick-off for the 4.5 development during the TYPO3 Developer Days 2010 on July the release team consisting of Ernesto Baschny (release manager) and Steffen Kamper (technical leader) started contacting individuals and teams that were already working on projects that were planned for inclusion in 4.5.
The release team decided to hold weekly meetings together with the TYPO3 product manager (Ben van 't Ende) and the core team leaders. These meetings turned out to improve productivity of the team a lot.
Development progress
The release plan for 4.5, the schedule and the planned projects are detailed in the <link http: forge.typo3.org projects typo3v45-projects wiki>project wiki on forge.
For details about this particular release and the current progress, please read up on:
<link http: forge.typo3.org projects typo3v45-projects wiki typo3_450alpha1>forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki/TYPO3_450alpha1
Downloads
For the first alpha an introductionpackage was build, which allows testing the new features right away on a fresh installation. Experienced users can of course opt to upgrade an existing installation to the new 4.5alpha1 version, but keeping in mind that this is still a snapshot of our development so far, and more changes and fixes will be included in further releases.
You can download the Alpha packages from:
<link http: typo3.org download packages>typo3.org/download/packages/
MD5 checksums:
2a02ee3055c598251f27a794cc41c8ea dummy-4.5.0alpha1.tar.gz
4fb7bafab17e7ca07aaf4d4c266c7846 dummy-4.5.0alpha1.zip
c8256e7dccd5516ae7f3095395afc758 typo3_src-4.5.0alpha1.tar.gz
e3a09277e58c4b2f9cb23d6f8532c107 typo3_src-4.5.0alpha1.zip
6297807690db90d1e4416b326d2d69fa typo3_src+dummy-4.5.0alpha1.zip
04b5ffbe993737b05e5653afc8d06c3a introductionpackage-4.5.0alpha1.zip
