Dear community, Thursday last week Serge Vleugels, programmer and TYPO3 user from Belgium, lost his life in a boating accident. TYPO3 has a large…

The 4th international TYPO3-Konferenz - T3CON08 - that takes place in Berlin for the first time this year, approaches and meanwhile the paper committee voted for the talks and tutorials.

With some delay here's now the activity report of what happened in the v5 world in July. We are so busy and absorbed by the current development that we have become a bit silent. But playing with our new baby, the persistence framework, is just far more exciting than writing reports ;-)

In our ongoing effort to centralize development resources, we have made another big step forward: typo3xdev, the collaborative extension development SVN, has moved to forge.typo3.org!

Like the TYPO3 Association announced at the last General Assembly in March 2008 the new memberships are available now. The company membership Level 3 provides the possibility of publishing your banner on typo3.org.

TYPO3 Bug Day on July 25th, 2008

Our personal summer of code started with what you could call the heart of TYPO3: Persistence. But even apart from this central theme many more topics have been addressed last month; among them speed, security and the new package repository.

Here's a small summary about our first Bug Day which took place on June 27th. Benjamin Mack and myself were responsible for that first Bug Day.…

Sponsored projects offer a new way for companies to support the development of TYPO3 v4 by donating money and pushing their own ideas. It also provides the developers with more opportunities for taking part in the development of the Core.

"Impossible!" is a common reaction on reading this headline. But the impossible is our goal. The DocTeam is currently working on a manual that shall allow everyone to understand TypoScript in only 45 minutes.