Hi folks, after many hours of work, I just uploaded new versions of the TER2 extensions which contain little improvements behind the scenes and an…

With TER2 we now have the technical basis for mirroring the whole extension repository. Those who offered providing a mirror will be approached during the next days and together we'll start a first beta phase.

By deploying a workaround, the SOAP issue which kept the old Extension Manager from uploading extensions has been solved. The work on other parts of TYPO3.org is making progress and help by the community is appreciated.

The annual CeBIT exhibition is scheduled for March 9-15 in Hannover, Germany. TYPO3 will again be represented among the exhibitors, but will also be featured in the lecture program for the first time.

Orders can now be placed for the third issue of the German-language T3N Magazine (01/2006) to be shipped on March 6. T3N Magazine offers a wide spectrum of interesting and informative articles about TYPO3 and related open source technologies.

Next sunday we plan on doing some maintenance work in our computer center and will use the opportunity to move the TYPO3.org servers into a new rack and run some hardware diagnostics. Planned downtime is starting Sunday at 17.30 CET and last about two hours.

Relaunch of TYPO3.com and TYPO3.org websites brings the new CI to our online communications.

Thomas Hempel from the newsteam made a small interview with Michael Stucki about the Snowboadtour 2006 and the next major release of TYPO3 4.0.

The new default backend skin has now progressed enough to allow for a guest login.