Right after the CMS Team meeting in Hannover 17 people met in sunny (*cough, cough*) Hamburg, Germany for another codesprint. Read about the results:

At TYPO3 Camp Rhine Ruhr 2014 Fiona Hasenau did a session on "Community Diversity". Many people were interested in this topic and the session had a great mix of old veterans and newcomers, attending their first camp.

The TYPO3 Eastern Europe Conference took place in Cluj, Romania on October 31 and November 1, 2014. Andrea Herzog Kienast describes the atmosphere, how we party, and how we are very serious in our work we do for TYPO3 even when we dance.

The first beta of TYPO3 Neos version 1.2 has been released for testing.

The next major version of TYPO3 CMS will be called 7 and will have PHP version 5.5 as its minimum PHP version. We consider this step vitally important to our new release strategy for several reasons.

The TYPO3 CMS versions 6.1 and 4.7 have reached their end of life in October 2014. Their latest versions are 4.7.20 and 6.1.12 which were released two weeks ago mark the last ones in these branches.

September started with the TYPO3camp Munich followed by the Active Contributor Meeting of the TYPO3 CMS team. In the second half of September there was the user experience week in the Harz. The 10th TYPO3 conference took place in Berlin from October 8 - 10. This month ended with the Dutch TYPO3 congress on Tuesday October 28 and I am writing all this from TYPO3 Eastern Europe an international TYPO3 event in the heart of Transylvania. Great to be here for halloween.

The certification team is happy to announce the new certification for TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS and give an overview about recent changes and ongoing tasks.

Over the last years TYPO3 CMS has gone through a lot of drastic changes. These changes were necessary to build a solid foundation for the future development and to pave the way for the next generation of TYPO3 CMS.