TYPO3 4.5alpha2 released

Categories: Development Created by Ernesto Baschny & Steffen Kamper
Today, the TYPO3 community released the second alpha version of TYPO3 4.5. We continue on track to reach the goal of releasing 4.5.0 with long time support in January 2011.
Today, the TYPO3 community released the second 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? The work on the next release continues as we approach the most productive phase in our jorney. The teams are settled, the holidays are over and many groundwork has been done in the background, although not everything that was acchieved so far is yet packaged in our alpha2. The release team consisting of Ernesto Baschny (release manager) and Steffen Kamper (technical leader) continue the work in coordinating the teams and individuals working actively in the core development. The release team holds weekly meetings together with the TYPO3 community manager (Ben van 't Ende) and the core team leaders. During the next weeks we expect major improvements for the next alpha3 release, because of major events that will influence the development:
  • T3CON10 in Frankfurt: A Core Team meeting before the main event will allow us to discuss open issues. The release team will present the current state of the 4.5 development during the T3CON10 itself.
  • Code Sprint in October 14.-17. in Stuttgart: Core team and active developers will join forces on a 4 day sprint. We expect to have many new features included in this phase, ready for testing in alpha3.
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_450alpha2>forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki/TYPO3_450alpha2

Downloads

We also have an introductionpackage for alpha2, 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 4.5alpha2 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:

4ba308bbaa826cf38e4dcc8c47800052  dummy-4.5.0alpha2.tar.gz
2981624501868614bac8f6517d546bb1  dummy-4.5.0alpha2.zip
365d5244a763f755ed7815d5c4360d6e  typo3_src-4.5.0alpha2.tar.gz
0e4fdf5321a0689c10de65ae7fbce278  typo3_src-4.5.0alpha2.zip
421cdcb48d6fd7edd18dab4f0214daa6  typo3_src+dummy-4.5.0alpha2.zip
18db44a153ecab9ec8eab15e73b7aad3  introductionpackage-4.5.0alpha2.tar.gz
9032dab4280609f71ca88f8a11e0f651  introductionpackage-4.5.0alpha2.zip