In the meeting of 16 June 2021, the board of the TYPO3 Association decided to change the way the annual budget is created, managed, and controlled.

In a previous typo3.org news post, the TYPO3 Extension Award for best documentation was introduced. We would now like to inform you about the next steps. The winners of the award will receive prizes up to €1000.

In this episode, I speak with Mathias Bolt Lesniak, a TYPO3 Board Member and valued TYPO3 Guidebook contributor who also works at the Scandinavian agency, Pixelant. In this episode we speak about Mathias’s favorite TYPO3 features, TYPO3 as a force for democratization in the world, and the give-and-take of open source contribution that characterizes the TYPO3 community.

The version 11.5.1 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System has just been released.

Under the headline “Warp Speed”, the TYPO3 Community has released a new Long Term Support (LTS) version of the TYPO3 Content Management System. The professional PHP-based web publishing platform will be supported for a full six years.

TYPO3 v11 LTS is out! Many enhancements, new features, and modern technologies under the hood make this version our best TYPO3 release yet. We have hardly neglected an area to lift this enterprise CMS to a new level. TYPO3 version 11 is for everyone and we can proudly claim that this release is built to stay. As a long-term support release (LTS), this version will be maintained by the community for at least three years.

Software should always make life easier, either for you, your clients, or everyone. Choosing software is often an extensive and challenging process in which there are many things to consider. One of these things is and should be the official software support periods.

In this episode, I speak with Larry Garfield, a long-time PHP developer who has joined the TYPO3 core development team in 2021. We talk about the history of PHP and open source, Larry’s “scorched Earth” campaign against PHP 4 (his words), and what it’s like to be embraced by the TYPO3 community as a newbie.

A lot has happened since July. There’s easier onboarding for new users and Composer as standard, as well as a new upgrade guide and updates to the main documentation navigation.

In accordance with the TYPO3 lifecycle and deprecation policy, we announce that TYPO3 v9 LTS reaches its end of free support on 30 September 2021. This article retrospectively summarizes the key features and technologies that we introduced in TYPO3 v9 LTS.