The TYPO3 community, contributors, and the release team are proud to introduce to you a new snapshot of the current development of TYPO3 CMS 6.2: beta1.

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.

Official positions in the TYPO3 Association have a tenure of office of 2 years. Each year half of the positions are newly elected. In 2014 the following positions are up for election:

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

Get your place at the T3BOARD14 over the following link, starting at 15:00 CEST

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!

Keynote speakers for the coming TYPO3 conference are determined. Leslie Hawthorn for Community, Vitaly Friedman (Smashing Magazine) for Future and Moritz Koch for the Business Day. We have special ticket offers available for you. You simply cannot miss this conference. See you there.

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.