The TYPO3 CMS team reports that major work is being done on performance and the Neos team is engaged in localisation. Furthermore marketing plans for 2014, Olivier Dobberkau AKA the Reverend Neverend shares his insights and a message from our Ukranian TYPO3 friends.

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 Elections 2014 for the Expert Advisory Board (EAB) and the Business Controll Committee (BCC) are opened.

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

The Board and the Expert Advisory Board meet quarterly, to discuss further projects and issues that are of importance to the TYPO3 Association. Preparation of the budget for 2014 was the main topic of the meeting which took place in late November 2013. The board also decided on a course of action for the modernisation of the TYPO3 Association in the coming year.

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.

The annual General Assembly will take place on the 1st of February 2014 13:00 pm in Frankfurt, Germany.