[TYPO3-announce] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 RC 2

[Ingo Renner]

Dear TYPO3 users,

The core team is proud to announce the second Release Candidate of  
TYPO3 version 4.2. We now think that we do have all blockers for a  
final release fixed so that if no critical bugs are found in this  
release candidate this will be the final release of TYPO3 4.2.

What has changed?

Bugfixes

Most of the changes since RC 1 are bug fixes that were found in RC 1.  
We fixed 23 bugs. Included in these 23 bugs are also 10 bug fixes  
auctioned during the TYPO3 Snowboard Tour in Laax.

User Interface Polishing

Apart from the bug fixes we also put some last minute user interface  
polishing into the release so that the control icons in the extended  
list view are now aligned in columns. New icons have been added here  
and there, too to make the backend look more consistent.

Reminder: Raised minimum PHP version requirement

To run TYPO3 4.2 you need to have at least PHP 5.2 [1]. This move was  
necessary to use PHP features introduced since PHP 5.0.

As always

Other then the highlighted bug fixes, performance improvements, and  
enthusiasm we again put lots of love into this release. A special  
thanks for the help in making this release what it is goes to the core  
team and all community developers engaged in fixing bugs and providing  
features.

Next steps to 4.2

As this is a release candidate we strongly recommend to test this  
version on your sites. This is now not only recommended to developers  
but also to all users.

Please test this release candidate version as much as possible,  
especially the new features introduced with the previous alpha and  
beta releases! If you're using one of the new features in a project of  
yours already and discover bugs, please report them immediately to http://bugs.typo3.org/ 
!

As mentioned in the beginning we think that we have fixed all  
ciritical bugs and expect to make RC2 the final release if no new  
critical bugs turn up. We will release the final release of TYPO3 4.2  
in one week from now if no critical bugs are found. In case there are  
critical issues we will continue releasing RC versions in one week  
cycles until we feel the code base is good enough for a final release.

For a detailed overview of the features in 4.2 have a look at the  
Development wiki page [2], the bugtracker [3], and the ChangeLog [4].

You can download the packages at http://typo3.org/download/packages/.

MD5 Sums:
53af9d0b04d234387199fa3ff2eeeeec  dummy-4.2.0RC2.tar.gz
f676220d53a563a311d43588c386008c  dummy-4.2.0RC2.zip
0c866768291e5305857f11d37fbe9352  typo3_src-4.2.0RC2.tar.gz
41e937061da3ef69742e9a3eda1a5991  typo3_src-4.2.0RC2.zip
8dce307a5c4a35ad6cd0cdf2a4fce10d  typo3_src+dummy-4.2.0RC2.zip


cheers
Ingo


[1] http://buzz.typo3.org/people/stucki/article/leaving-php4-behind/
[2] http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/4.2_Development
[3] http://bugs.typo3.org/
[4] http://typo3.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/typo3/TYPO3core/branches/TYPO3_4-2/ChangeLog?view=markup&pathrev=3589


-- 
Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2



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