tl;dr: For the design and technical relaunch of typo3.org beginning in 2017, we would like to start a contest. You’re a creative designer or great at conception? Start your design program and have the chance to create the main design of typo3.org! The best three designs will be awarded with a prize.

The TYPO3 Community announces the versions 6.2.28 LTS and 7.6.12 LTS of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.

As part of this year's TYPO3 Conference Europe T3CON16 in Munich, the TYPO3 Association presented this year's International TYPO3 Awards. The prizes recognize the most creative and user-friendly web projects created using the open source content management system TYPO3. Among the winners are the Stasi-Mediathek, which documents the work of the GDR’s former secret police in videos, pictures, audio material and texts, the Donations page of the DRK (German Red Cross), and the Internet portal of 1. FC Köln. The prize for “Website of the Year,” which the independent expert jury voted on for the first time, was accepted by the TYPO3 specialists from the agency DFAU for the Fit Reisen website.

TYPO3 CMS8 was presented for the cloud today at the TYPO3 Conference that is currently being held in Munich. Starting now, users can test TYPO3 on Platform.sh. The TYPO3 Association and the cloud hosting company Platform.sh are cooperating on offering the open source CMS in the cloud as well. Platform.sh offers its users a public cloud solution via Microsoft Azure Germany that also saves sensitive data securely in German data centers.

The last quarter of 2016 brings a number of good events that are worthwhile to visit, be part of or to participate in.

The TYPO3 community released the next sprint release of TYPO3 v8. We have been working like crazy to push TYPO3 further, and 8.4 is a great intermediate step towards our planned LTS version, which is going to be released in April 2017.

The third sprint of the TYPO3 Server Admin Team in 2016 took place during the weekend of September 30th - October 2nd in Berlin.

We're giving a short outlook on the upcoming changes of the TYPO3 extension repository which will be separated from typo3.org.

The current typo3.org was launched in April 2012. It’s about time to renew the most important site for our community. Here is a status report (and a call for help!) from the newly formed relaunch team.