After another very active period of bug fixing and new features, we're finally there: TYPO3 4.0rc1 is released and the TYPO3_4-0 branch is now feature freezed.

By deploying a workaround, the SOAP issue which kept the old Extension Manager from uploading extensions has been solved. The work on other parts of TYPO3.org is making progress and help by the community is appreciated.

The release timeline for TYPO3 4.0 has been updated in order to have a final release together with the launch of the new corporate design.

The annual CeBIT exhibition is scheduled for March 9-15 in Hannover, Germany. TYPO3 will again be represented among the exhibitors, but will also be featured in the lecture program for the first time.

Orders can now be placed for the third issue of the German-language T3N Magazine (01/2006) to be shipped on March 6. T3N Magazine offers a wide spectrum of interesting and informative articles about TYPO3 and related open source technologies.

Next sunday we plan on doing some maintenance work in our computer center and will use the opportunity to move the TYPO3.org servers into a new rack and run some hardware diagnostics. Planned downtime is starting Sunday at 17.30 CET and last about two hours.

As some of you have noticed in the core-list [1]/[2], the TYPO3 development team has been very active during the last weeks. The result of this is TYPO3 4.0beta3 - a beta release that contains a lot of bug fixes and some major new features.

Relaunch of TYPO3.com and TYPO3.org websites brings the new CI to our online communications.

You can be busy and bored at the same time and today that lead me to do a few SQL look ups in the TER resulting in this nice chart. It's an impressive…

Thomas Hempel from the newsteam made a small interview with Michael Stucki about the Snowboadtour 2006 and the next major release of TYPO3 4.0.