[TYPO3-dev] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 Alpha 2

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Thanks, Ingo!

Attached is a diffstat and the (more than 400 lines long!) ChangeLog
between Alpha 1 and Alpha 2.

cheers
Ingmar


Ingo Renner schrieb:
> The core team is proud to announce the second Alpha of TYPO3 version 4.2.
> 
> So what's new?
> 
> Community involvement
> 
> First of all this is the first release of TYPO3 since the core
> development mailinglist has been opened for public write access. The
> core team likes to thank all those who have been actively contributing
> to improve TYPO3 since then. We're stunned about the huge success of the
> open core development mailinglist and the many contributions!
> 
> Backend improvements
> 
> This version ships with the initial work of the "Cleaner backend"
> project which consists of several major parts. In the first step the
> backend was freed from the frames which have been replaced by div
> containers and a single iframe. A special thanks goes to Dirk Jesse from
> the YAML CSS Framework project for helping out here! To make the former
> top frame free for new tasks the secondary options in TCEforms now
> unfold directly at their parent input fields. After that was
> accomplished it was now possible to move other elements to newly won
> space in the new toolbar at the top. For now only the workspace selector
> has moved, but other elements will follow.
> Another major task was the restyling of TCEforms to always have the
> buttons to save a document in sight at the top of the editing area.
> You test the new backend by accessing it through typo3/backend.php.
> 
> Installer 2
> 
> The installer version 2 has been added to this release to make it easy
> to test the new version. This new installer is a complete rewrite of the
> old one by Thomas Hempel, it's now devided into two parts, the installer
> itself and a setup moduel which is accessible from the backend. When
> doing a new install you'll be prompted whether you want to use the old
> or the new installer. At the current state you can use the new installer
> in 1-2-3 mode only and then refine your settings from within the backend.
> 
> T3Editor
> 
> Also completely new in this version is the so called t3editor by Tobias
> Liebig which makes it possible to highlight TypoScript when editing
> TypoScript templates in the Web->Template module.
> 
> Linking to records using the RTE
> 
> A feature which was partly available in 4.1 already but unusable because
> of a typo is now fully implemented. Extensions can now link to records
> like tt_news items directly using a RTE wizard. This will not work out
> of the boy though as it needs support from the extensions which need to
> handle the rendering in the frontend.
> 
> More improvements to the RTE
> 
> Stanislas Rolland is back from his long holiday trip and has since kept
> on working on rtehtmlarea. He added several features to the RTE like
> making it possible to extend the RTE with own plugins. Other then that
> there seems to be an uncountable amunt of bugfixes which are always very
> much welcomed.
> 
> Improvements for the RTE
> 
> RTEmagic images are now duplicated when records are copied/versioned in
> tcemain. This is a long awaited feature that solves the bug that RTE
> magic images shared between two records would result in both
> disappearing if the one was deleted. Therefore this is also an important
> fix for Workspaces.
> 
> New language
> 
> The Galician language was added so that localizations can be downloaded
> as they become available from the translators. TYPO3 can now be
> translated into 49 languages.
> 
> Third party libraries
> 
> TYPO3 4.2alpha2 comes with updated javascript libraries, we now ship
> with prototype 1.6.0 and script.aculo.us 1.8.0. Libraries to minfy
> javascript and prevent cross site scripting (XSS) attacks have been
> added, too.
> 
> Raised minimum PHP version requirement
> 
> To run TYPO3 4.2alpha2 you need to have at least PHP 5.2. This move was
> necessary to use features introduced since PHP 5.0.
> 
> As always
> 
> Other then the highlighted features we also packed tons of bug fixes,
> performance improvements, enthusiasm, and love into this release.
> 
> Next steps to 4.2
> 
> Please test this Alpha as much as possible, especially the new features
> from alpha1 and those described above! If you're e.g. using one of the
> new features in a project of yours already and discover bugs, please
> report them immediately to http://bugs.typo3.org/!
> 
> During the next weeks, we will release one more Alpha before locking
> down the development of new features. We will then continue with Beta
> releases which are only meant for bug fixes before turning to Release
> Candidates and the final version of TYPO3 4.2. This means that you can
> expect the final version to be ready around the end of January '08.
> 
> For a detailed overview of the features planned for 4.2 and their
> progress, have a look at the 4.2 Development wiki page, the bugtracker,
> and the ChangeLog.
> 
> You can download the packages at http://typo3.org/download/packages/.
> 
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> 
> cheers
> Ingo
> 
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