This week we have 2 code sprints running. The first code sprint by the Editorial Team and a feature freeze code sprint in a series of code sprints targeting stabilisation and finishing TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS. Release manager, Ernesto Baschny, answers some questoins. We have a report on a unique community cooperation and news came in this week that the Bitnami package was completed.

Joey Hasenau and Kay Strobach met on the TYPO3 Developer Days 2013. Both are working on similar projects concerning the backend and theming. Their meeting did not turn into an epic battle, but into a fruitful cooperation. That is what the TYPO3 community is all about. ~ben

This week saw the release of Alpha 3 of TYPO3 CMS, the huge Neos code sprint and some TYPO3 event announcements. Also included is an interview with Sebastian Kurfürst, release manager of Neos 1.0.

The TYPO3 CMS Team and the TYPO3 Community are happy to announce the availability of a new sneak preview of the upcoming 6.2 LTS release: 6.2 alpha3.

On Monday, October 7th 2013 15:00 (CEST) it’s time again to start the registration for the next year’s snowboard-tour at the Mountain Hostel (Laax, Switzerland) AND second half of the week down in the village at Riders Palace. Save the Date: 19.01. – 26.01.2014. You'll get the exact registration link via twitter or news.typo3.org!

This week saw postponement of the Alpha 3 of TYPO3 CMS, GSoC pencils down, TYPO3 distributions, Neos news, TYPO3 girls and CMS garden goodness. As a bonus a small interview with DE-CIX’s Alexander Summa.

For more than 10 years people keep telling me how wonderful and unique the TYPO3 community is, how enthusiastic. Do you know why? I do.

On the TYPO3 Neos team, we often get the question – when will Neos be capable of doing the same as TYPO3 CMS? In other words: Will Neos be competitive from day one? This article aims to answer the question but it also targets another, potentially far more important question to the TYPO3 community surrounding the Neos project.

‘This Week in TYPO3’ was born out of the suggestions by community members for shorter and more timely updates. The monthly overviews were usually too much after the fact and it’s length not appealing to read. Of course we also live in times where we do not focus that long. I also sincerely hope that these timely updates will see contributions by the community and feedback by the community. Participation in getting this weekly update done is encouraged.

In September two technical discussion meetings took place to talk about possible solutions for different Neos development related topics.