Fund raising for the workpackages initiative went through the roof this week, the CMS Garden Association kicks of in the Unperfekt Haus and beta 4 of TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS was released on route to the final.

The TYPO3 community, contributors, and the release team prepared a new snapshot of the current development of TYPO3 CMS 6.2: beta4.

Welcome everyone into the new year and to the first 'This Week in TYPO3' of 2014. The beginning of the week kicked of with a bang in the form of the fund raising campaign for TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS, the TYPO3 CMS team planned code sprints for the coming year and the CMS garden organisation is feverishly trying to round up support to make CMS Garden happen at CeBIT 2014. As a bonus we have an interview for you with Mattes, TYPO3 dinosaur, critic and above all co-organiser of the workpackages initiative.

The TYPO3 CMS Team reviewed the code sprints of last year, and planned all sprints in 2014 upfront. Read about those plans in this news.

The release of TYPO3 CMS 6.2 has moved from the half yearly cycle and shifted it’s final release to March 25 of this year. As this coming release is a Long Term Support (LTS) version a very solid release is essential.

The next online election for positions in the Expert Advisory Board (EAB) and the Business Controll Committee (BCC) in the TYPO3 Association starts at the 17th of January 2014. The nomination phase is extended up to the 12th of January 2014.

Like in 2013 TYPO3 will engage itself in CMS Garden for the coming year. As a matter of fact CMS Garden has it’s roots in the TYPO3 community as an idea that came up to support Open Source at CeBIT with the decreasing Open Source sponsoring from CeBIT itself.

The TYPO3 community, contributors, and the release team packaged a new snapshot of the current development of TYPO3 CMS 6.2: beta3.

December 10 saw the launch of TYPO3 Neos 1.0. The TYPO3 community has been anticipating this release for many years and the road to Neos 1.0 was bumpy. Of course we are not there yet. In fact we are never there, we are living the permanent beta stage. Just like in life there is always room for improvement. Our projects, like all other software projects, will always have bugs to fix, patches to be applied and features to be added. It is the TYPO3 community that has done this incredible work and got the TYPO3 project to this level. We can be proud in a solid understanding that what binds us as people is the driving force that inspires us all to share the things we love. For this special day in TYPO3 Kasper, Rasmus and Robert give some input on the occasion of this special day. ~ben

This week and next week all eyes are on TYPO3 Neos. The team is currently sprinting towards the final release of TYPO3 Neos 1.0, topped by the launch party this Tuesday in Nuremberg, Germany.