In the last five months the TYPO3 community has worked on the next TYPO3 release - TYPO3 CMS 6.1 - which was published today. It is a continuous improvement over the previous version, targeting stability over new features, and polishing the previously introduced functionalities.

Following the TYPO3 CMS maintenance policy, versions get deprecated and finally be discontinued as the time goes by. TYPO3 CMS 4.6 is at the end of its lifetime as soon as TYPO3 CMS 6.1 has been released to the public. Thus, it's time to say good-bye to TYPO3 CMS 4.6 "--rebase" which originally has been released in October 2011.

The event season started again with CMS-garden at CeBIT in Hannover and the first TYPO3camp of the year in Venlo, The Netherlands and there were two code sprints. We have a lot of exciting events coming up this year.

The second code sprint of the TYPO3 Extbase Team for this year took place last weekend (12/04 - 14/04/2013) in Munich at typovision GmbH’s new office.…

The European TYPO3 Conference 2013 will be held from Tuesday October 29 - Thursday October 31 in Filderhalle, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Stuttgart, Germany. The conference concept for this year is new, exciting, different and hot. You want to be there.

Release candidate packages for TYPO3 CMS 4.5.26, 4.7.11 and 6.0.5 available

The biggest conference dedicated to the new family members of the TYPO3 project, Neos and Flow, is taking place next week.

During 4th to 7th April another code sprint happened with a group of people taking care of the "extension" topic for the TYPO3 CMS core. This time AOE Media in Wiesbaden was our hoster and provided everything we needed to keep us busy on coding stuff. Special thanks goes to Tolleiv Nietsch and Steffen Ritter for the organization of this Code Sprint.

I’m happy to announce that TYPO3 has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2013. This is the 4th year we participate. Congrats to all accepted organizations, and a big thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen for TYPO3!

After a long weekend for a lot of contributors and some cool improvements the TYPO3 world has one more TYPO3 release - CMS 6.1 Beta 1. The feature freeze for the upcoming version has now been reached.