At the beginning of February 2025, TYPO3 Core developer Oliver Bartsch will return to FOSDEM, an enormous open-source event in Brussels. I had the opportunity to talk with him about his previous visit, in February 2024.

2024 was a transformative year for TYPO3, featuring the launch of the TYPO3 Partner Program, global event participation, team expansion, and TYPO3 v13 releases. Highlights included the TYPO3 Surfcamp, TYPO3 Developer Days, the TYPO3 Conference, and increased engagement across the community. This year laid the groundwork for even bigger opportunities in 2025.

With Markdown, contributors can create and edit documentation using a format that's both simpler and more intuitive. This helps to break down the barriers of programming. If needed, you can switch to ReST later, for more advanced features.

Web Camp Venlo will celebrate its tenth anniversary from 13 to 15 February 2025. This milestone event will bring together professionals and enthusiasts in web development, PHP, TYPO3, frontend technologies, and open source in Venlo, The Netherlands.

Oli gives us an update on the former Motivation Research Team’s participation in the annual EMPAMOS barcamp, where they connected with the community, shared their research, and explored new ideas for enhancing teamwork and leadership.

The TYPO3 Localization Team gathered in Düsseldorf for a full week during the TYPO3 Community Sprint Q4/2024 and made the TYPO3 extension, Crowdin, a reality. The extension provides an in-context feature which enables TYPO3 backend users to translate labels of the TYPO3 Core and extensions directly in the TYPO3 backend.

Time flies, and with the fourth community sprint of the year almost complete, we’re ready to look back on another year of server maintenance work in the TYPO3 universe.

The TYPO3 Association member poll for the Q1/2025 budget ideas has been finished and the four winning ideas will be funded by the TYPO3 Association.

A budget proposal titled Future of StaticFileCache, was submitted and approved for Q4 2024, aiming to advance the development of this popular TYPO3 extension. Over the past few weeks, the planned milestones have been successfully completed and are now part of the newly released version 15.1.1.

The Paste reference for Content Elements extension (paste_reference) has been updated for TYPO3 versions 12 and 13, addressing longstanding compatibility issues and ensuring smoother functionality. This report from David Bruchmann highlights both the technical fixes and the value this extension brings to TYPO3 users.