25 years of TYPO3: The community celebrates its anniversary with the release of the latest version 12 LTS

"Here To Save The Day" - that is the claim for the latest TYPO3 version 12, which was officially released on April 25th, 2023. With the new LTS release, TYPO3 websites can be future-proofed up to April 30th, 2026.

Düsseldorf, Germany, 28 April 2023  

Eighteen months of community work lie behind the more than 140 developers who have invested time, heart, and soul in TYPO3’s best major release to date. Those installing the version with the official number 12.4 can look forward to up to six years of official support as well as numerous new features and improvements. Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is guaranteed up to April 30th, 2029.

Olivier Dobberkau, President of the TYPO3 Association, says about the release: "First of all, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this fantastic new version. Without our community we wouldn't be where we are today! In version 12, I'm personally most excited about the integration of webhooks – this creates yet another whole new set of possible applications for TYPO3."

TYPO3 v12 seamlessly continues the already improved functionalities for users and editors that had become a strong focus for the Core team since the release of the previous version. These include simplified backend handling and a modern user interface. Integrators and developers will be pleased to see real process optimizations in their day-to-day work. 

The most important new features include:

• Webhooks and Reactions, which allow external systems to communicate and exchange information with TYPO3. These webhooks can be used to integrate TYPO3 into a deployment or data pipeline, or to connect any third-party systems to TYPO3 even more comfortably - for a seamless system landscape.
• The CKEditor has been updated to the latest version and now offers even more rich text editing features for editors. 
• The backend modules for TypoScript and Page TSconfig have been improved to provide more options for integrators and simplify day-to-day work with the system. 
• Under the hood, many improvements have also been made, including the integration of a message bus and a message queue, as well as support for PHP 8.1 and 8.2. 
• Support for new TCA types and revisions to the Extbase programming framework for developers.

A detailed technical look with more information can be found at docs.typo3.org. 

An article about the highlights and features of the new TYPO3 major version can be found here.

Experts from various fields and in the official TYPO3 teams have contributed to the result, partly on a voluntary basis. 3.250 Git commits and a total of 216 new features are symbolic of this. The community achievement is underlined with the version-accompanying campaign. From the very first sprint release (v12.0 in October 2022), "Release your Power" told the story of a superhero journey, in which the Heroes Ty Power, Threeternia, and Sudden Dev symbolize that the multifaceted challenges of the web can only be mastered with the joint efforts of everyone involved. 

Luisa Faßbender, TYPO3 Marketing Team Lead, was responsible for the campaign and says: "The entire, cross-release campaign symbolizes the adaptability and strength of our beloved CMS. For the first time in the long history of updates, we have created our own comic strip for the TYPO3 community. The story in it is meant to show that we can only tackle the current tasks we are facing together and as a unit. Ideally, readers will end up feeling empowered to call themselves a "TYPO3 hero" and will be able to identify with one of the heroes portrayed."

The launch of the latest TYPO3 major version will be framed by celebrations surrounding the 25th anniversary of the open source CMS, which was first released by Kasper Skårhøj in 1998. This makes TYPO3 one of the few content management systems that can already look back on a rich history and has detailed market knowledge. TYPO3 continues to enjoy a huge, active developer community, which continuously develops, optimizes, and adapts the CMS to new market needs.

Daniel Fau, interim CEO of TYPO3 GmbH, says: "From the seclusion of our home offices, we literally opened the gates to our community again with the celebration at the "Home of TYPO3". In the anniversary year and beyond, these will not be closed again - completely in the spirit of Open Source. Regardless of whether it is participation in the project or the rediscovery of networking in the heroic framework of the TYPO3 Conference in October 2023."

The TYPO3 Association coordinates and funds the long-term development of TYPO3 CMS and is the owner of the TYPO3 trademark. It is a not-for-profit organization that provides software to the public free of charge. The TYPO3 Association is an association according to Swiss Law that was founded by the members of the TYPO3 Community in November 2004. It has its headquarters in Baar ZG, Switzerland. The TYPO3 Association is non-partisan and denominationally neutral. More information about members, objectives, and funding opportunities can be found at: typo3.org/association

TYPO3 GmbH is a service company established by the TYPO3 Association to provide support services and to take on the development of the TYPO3 CMS software. More about the TYPO3 Company can be found at typo3.com.

• In-depth release announcement
• Version 12 release material
• TYPO3 Guidebook

Mathias Bolt Lesniak
Phone: +49 211 205436-46
Mail: media(at)typo3.com

TYPO3 GmbH
Emanuel-Leutze-Str. 11
40547 Düsseldorf
Germany

Phone: +49 211 205436-0
Web: www.typo3.com

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