[TYPO3-dev] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 Beta 2

[Steffen Ritter]

Hello Ingo,
thanx to you and all Core-Devs for the great work.
When I created the bugfix for date2cal working with the new backend I 
got to know, that the update of the external JavaScript tools  (in that 
case: prototype lib) breaks backwards compatibility.
Whe should publish that in the news.txt and announcement info's of the 
RC1/Beta3/final, so that extension-developer can include a version 
switch, taking care of the the different Api. Further information can be 
found in the announcement of the prototyp lib about version 16.

Greetings Steffen


Ingo Renner schrieb:
> Dear TYPO3 users,
> 
> The core team is proud to announce the second Beta of TYPO3 version 4.2. 
> As we had a feature freeze with the release of Beta 1 earlier this 
> month, this Beta is entirely a bug fix and minor improvements release.
> 
> So what has changed?
> 
> Cleaner Backend Project
> 
> The new editor toolbar is now added to nearly every core backend module 
> making the backend look even more consistent. Tabs as in the page 
> properties were also introduced for content elements, frontend users, 
> frontend usergroups, backend users, backend usergroups, and TypoScript 
> templates so that fields are now grouped and can be found faster. The 
> new shortcut menu got a small help text when there are not shortcuts 
> added yet.
> 
> One more thing(s)
> 
> This release features our one more thing for TYPO3 4.2. The Web Access 
> module has gained AJAX support. When setting permissions for users or 
> groups you can now directly click the setting you want to change to 
> toggle between allowed and disallowed in the permissions matrix. Give it 
> a try!
> 
> The "Open Documents" extension listing all backend forms you've 
> currently opened, has seen another bunch of improvements under the hood; 
> yet some necessary CSS changes have not yet gone in, so test it, but 
> don't expect it to look good yet!
> 
> The TypoScript editor with highlighting and all sorts of features which 
> make editing a breeze has been fixed to work correctly in Firefox 2 now. 
> However, Internet Explorer support seems to be broken right now, but the 
> author Tobias Liebig is already working on a fix. If you notice any bugs 
> with T3Editor on Firefox in this release, don't hesitate to report the 
> bug either on the dev mailinglist or in the bugtracker.
> 
> A small feature which comes in handy when you're using IRRE to manage 
> your data collections is the possibility to hide tables from the "New 
> record" link in the backend by means of the TSConfig option 
> "mod.web_list.deniedNewTables", so you can finally ensure that IRRE 
> child tables are only created and edited from within their parent record.
> 
> Negative Timestamps
> 
> One thing those of you who are born before the date of 01/01/1970 will 
> especially appreciate is that you will now be able to save your birth 
> date in date/datetime fields in backend forms. This was actually an 
> issue with PHP on some operating systems which was fixed in PHP 5.1. 
> TYPO3 now makes use of the fixed issues and can now internally handle 
> "negative timestamps" which makes it possibe to save dates starting from 
> 1902 (still with an upper limit of year 2038).
> 
> Linking across domains in a tree
> 
> When you have more than one domain in your tree, like www.example.com 
> and other.example.com a link from the former to the later would result 
> in awrong link with the wrong domain. This issue was resolved and an 
> updated version of EXT:realurl making use of that should be available 
> soon, too.
> 
> Performance improvements
> 
> In an attempt to clean up the important library t3lib_div some slow PHP 
> functions were replaced by faster ones.
> 
> Bugfixes
> 
> A lot of minor bugfixes were added, especially concerning CSS styling 
> issues and JavaScript errors. Nested *_INT TypoScript objects were not 
> woking, this has been fixed. All other fixes are rather minor and can be 
> looked up in the ChangeLog.
> 
> Reminder: Raised minimum PHP version requirement
> 
> To run TYPO3 4.2beta2 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 engaged community developers.
> 
> Next steps to 4.2
> 
> Please test this beta version as much as possible, especially the new 
> features from the previous alpha releases and those described above! 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/!
> 
> Due to some bigger issues with broken handling of client/server timezone 
> calculation that have poped up meanwhile we will need to have a third 
> beta release to get everything fixed and tested properly to keep our 
> high quality standards. Beta3 is expexted within the next one or two 
> weeks, after that we want to start release candidate phase so that the 
> new target for a final release of TYPO3 4.2 is now mid to end of March.
> 
> For a detailed overview of the features planned for 4.2 and their 
> progress, have a look at the 4.2 Development wiki page [2], the 
> bugtracker [3], and the ChangeLog [4].
> 
> You can download the packages at http://typo3.org/download/packages/.
> 
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> 
> 
> 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?revision=3272&view=markup 
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