[TYPO3-dev] Announcement: 4.0beta3

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi folks,

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.

- Extension manager for the new Extension Repository (TER2)
  Please especially test that up- and downloading of extensions works.

- No symlinks needed anymore.
  If you want, you can still keep them (e.g. if you are using old
  extensions that depend on e.g. t3lib/ to exist in typo3/t3lib/
  as well) but the TYPO3 Core doesn't depend on them anymore
  Of course you can still use symlinks to change between different
  typo3_src-x.x.x folders.

- No need for "showpic.php" anymore.
  Click-enlarge links now look like "index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&..."
  The technique behind this feature may become very useful for AJAX and
  webservice scripts, too.

- Versioning works with older MySQL versions as well now

- Form eval API
  It's now possible to supply own JavaScript and PHP form evaluations
  to input fields defined in the TCA (thanks to Thomas Hempel)

- GIFBUILDER can create truecolor images now

- ss_dragdrop extension has been integrated into the core.
  That means drag and drop works for pages in the pagetree.
  When you drop a page inside of another page, a context menu will pop
  up asking your whether to copy, move or create a shortcut at that
  position. (Thanks to Stephane Schitter)

Please test this release as much as possible and report bugs to
http://bugs.typo3.org/

You can download the source here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20391&package_id=14557&release_id=23689

MD5sums:
335f95fe28ef0dcde39504bcaefe74d0  dummy-4.0beta3.tar.gz
74beb7dd4c8ee4e4e9071d041164fc50  dummy-4.0beta3.zip
a2d7d7c535975912ec6e134170239c5f  typo3_src-4.0beta3.tar.gz
563ec9f058fb3df7349ec5d96777d616  typo3_src-4.0beta3.zip

regards
Ingmar

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