[TYPO3] [TYPO3-dev] Announcing Release of TYPO3 Version 4.1

[Ingmar Schlecht]

BAAR, SWITZERLAND - Today the TYPO3 Core Team has released the latest
version of their very successful Open Source Project. Where 4.0 mainly
focused on improving usability features on the editor level, version
4.1.0 also brings many like improvements to System Administrators and
developers. The most eye-catching features are Inline Relational Record
Editing (IRRE), AJAX Page and File Tree, command line based clean-up
functions, and an improved Extension Manager.

The functionality IRRE provides is groundbreaking in the relational
editing capabilities of the TYPO3 core elements. The main feature is as
simple as editing sub-records inside the parent record and being able to
add new sub-records just by clicking on an icon. This greatly simplifies
editing of related records in TYPO3 and makes it possible to work with
complex data structures in the TYPO3 Backend from a single window versus
many.

A new AJAX Page and File Tree makes expanding and collapsing branches of
the page and file tree in the TYPO3 Backend much quicker while lowering
system load. Editors and administrators will benefit from this since
expanding the page tree doesn't require the whole page to be refreshed
any more. Instead the system only fetches what is needed.

Version 4.1 features a brand new command line interface from where
System Administrators can execute a range of command line scripts
written by Kasper Skårhøj. This "low level" system extension has
functions for checking database integrity and cleaning up such as lost
files and references, flushing deleted records and published versions
and much more. There is a howto-text file inside the low level extension
that describes in detail how the process should be run.

The Extension Manager has been improved in a manner that it now stores
the list of extensions from the TYPO3 Extension Manager (TER) in the
local database. This not only speeds up processes but also requires less
memory, which is of great importance for a Content Management System
that is used not only on enterprise level but also on large scale in
smaller business environments.
4.1 includes a number of other performance enhancements in both page
caching and database access. TYPO3 sites running on shared hosting
platforms with tight memory limits will welcome these new features.

Besides these major improvements, the new release contains dozens of
smaller features, system enhancements, and bug fixes. This version
focuses clearly on usability in every aspect of the system as the one
goal that has been set by the Development Team for all 4.x releases.

TYPO3 version 4.1 can be directly downloaded from
http://typo3.org/download/packages/. Technical documentation and the
release notes can be found at
http://typo3.org/development/articles/release-notes-41/

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Press Release by Sander Vogels / International Press Responsible