The Content Rendering Group (CRG) appears to be less active lately; at least that's what Marc Wöhlken (author of Advanced HTML Cleaner ? qcom_htmlcleaner) believed. The last article in the CRG's TYPO3.org page was posted several months ago, so it's understandable that people have this impression. Marc's email reminded me to give all you good folks an update of what is going on... and things are going on!

New members of the design team recently met in Copenhagen to design new 4.0 default backend skin

Few people are aware of the TYPO3 IRC channel on freenode.net. Channel #typo3 is frequented by some very knowledgeable TYPO3 users and developers, and is an excellent resource for the TYPO3 community.

With the release of TYPO3 4.0 coming nearer, the TYPO3.org team now starts preparing the deployment of the new Extension Repository. The TER2 offers…

The <link http: wiki.typo3.org index.php extension_coordination_team>Extension Coordination Team (ECT) is proud to present the list of nominations for the Extension Award 2005.

A new article describing TYPO3 performance tuning and testing is now available in the articles section of typo3.org.

TYPO3 4.0 marks the fourth major release of TYPO3. It enhances and extends functionality and usability for TYPO3 users and developers. This beta release will allow us to spot bugs in the initial stages, and fix them before they have a chance to proliferate.

TYPO3 has a reputation of being a resource hog, and performance on popular websites (such as typo3.org) has often been somewhat flaky in the past. This article addresses some recommendations on performance tuning as well as some testing scenarios with regard to TYPO3.

Kasper Skårhøj, head developer of TYPO3, has announced a new feature for TYPO3 4.0: database indexing. Databases allow you to specify indexes for…