Our personal summer of code started with what you could call the heart of TYPO3: Persistence. But even apart from this central theme many more topics have been addressed last month; among them speed, security and the new package repository.

Sponsored projects offer a new way for companies to support the development of TYPO3 v4 by donating money and pushing their own ideas. It also provides the developers with more opportunities for taking part in the development of the Core.

"Impossible!" is a common reaction on reading this headline. But the impossible is our goal. The DocTeam is currently working on a manual that shall allow everyone to understand TypoScript in only 45 minutes.

A session from the TYPO3 Developer Days 2008 about the current state of FLOW3 and TYPO3 v5 can be watched in the latest episode of the T3CAST. It…

Our main topics for the TYPO3 v5 project last month were - apart from the usual development work - conferences, continuous integration and project management. Here are the topics in detail:

The TYPO3 v4 SVN repository has been moved to svn.typo3.org, TYPO3's own SVN server infrastructure.

For all of you who are not that deeply involved in the making of TYPO3 v5, I have collected the most important bits of last month's activities.

BAAR - The TYPO3 Association 4.x Development Team has released a new version of their very successful open source project. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 3.000.000 times from Sourceforge.org which makes it one of the World's leading enterprise Open Source products. The main focus of the new 4.2 version is improving usability, but there are also many enhancements for system administrators and developers. Including bug fixes, there are nearly 650 enhancements in TYPO3 4.2.

The core team is proud to announce the second Release Candidate of TYPO3 version 4.2. We now think that we do have all blockers for a final release fixed so that if no critical bugs are found in this release candidate this will be the final release of TYPO3 4.2.

Sebastian Böttger and David Brühlmeier join forces to develop a TYPO3 / FLOW3 Development Environment based on Eclipse.