Tonight the TYPO3 community released the first beta version of TYPO3 4.5.

At the wmdb office in Düsseldorf a team of TYPO3 developers worked together in a code sprint on the File Abstraction Layer (FAL) for four days.

The next Bug Day is coming and some Core Team members have already pledged themselves to attend.

This week is the last week before we declare a "feature freeze", which happens when we release TYPO3 4.5.0 beta1, acording to our <link&hellip;

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The release team of version 4.5 decided to postpone the release of beta1 for one week.

The last Bug Day was pretty quiet again, although some bugs were still fixed.

A lot is going on at the moment improving the design and usability of the backend for TYPO3 version 4.5. The new release will be a Long Term Support…

Since TYPO3 4.4 there is not only a new skin, but a new skinning API. The documentation to both is finally available.

The server admin team would like to make the following pre-announcement: As we will move various sites to a different location, there will be a…