This week the Board and the Expert Advisory Board met in Karlsruhe for their quarterly 'live' meeting and for determination of the budgets and there was maintenance release of TYPO3 CMS. As a bonus this week an interview with Oliver Hader, core team leader TYPO3 CMS.

The TYPO3 Community announces the versions 4.5.31, 4.7.16, 6.0.11 and 6.1.6 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.

As you may know there have been several changes to the marketing team in the past few months. Kian Gould, who was marketing leader for several years, resigned and Peter Pröll, Eike Diestelkamp, Frederic Gaus left as well. That means we are now a group of 5 members : Berit Hlubek (Co-Lead), Boris Hinzer, Christian Händel, Ben van ’t Ende and Alain Veuve (Leader).

This week ended in Bad-Dürkheim with the last days of the marketing sprint. A marketing sprint revolving around communication, strategy and marketing material. The final release of TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS was postponed to March 2014.

The TYPO3 community, contributors, and the release team are proud to introduce to you a new snapshot of the current development of TYPO3 CMS 6.2: beta2.

Find out why the final release of TYPO3 6.2 LTS was postponed until March 2014 and what consequences this has.

The TYPO3 Marketing sprint started last Monday with a two day communication workshop, attended by around 16 people. The workshop was organised to gain a better understanding of communication in an Open Source community and to find ways of improving that communication.

A weekend in the Unperfekthaus in Essen with a whole bunch of happy geeks: the second TYPO3Camp Rhein-Ruhr was attended by over 125 people, from developers to project managers to backend users. Slot-car racing at Gapp's Event-Location provided great food and a lot of excitement with the official tournament as a warm-up event Friday evening.

This week's TYPO3 story is brought to you from the Eastern European TYPO3 conference, T3EE, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The much-anticipated TYPO3 Neos 1.0 beta 1 was released on November 12. A little report on T3EE and an interview with Daniel Homorodean, main driving force of T3EE.

Release date of Beta 1: November 12th 2013 The entire Neos team is very excited to provide the first Beta release of TYPO3 Neos 1.0. It is an…