[TYPO3] TV FCE issue

[Simon Browning]

Jeff Segars wrote:
> Simon Browning wrote:
>> Jeff Segars wrote:
>>> Benjamin Mack wrote:
>>>> Hey Simon,
>>>>
>>>> Jeff and the WEC team had the exact same thing last week on a 
>>>> server. We found out that it was related to an update of libxml2. 
>>>> After 2 days of debugging, Jeff found the reason. Anyway, there was 
>>>> a workaround of TYPO3 to /not/ use this strange behaviour by putting 
>>>> <[!CDATA[-- around the fields.
>>>>
>>>> @Jeff: Looks like we need our "workaround" pretty soon and in time 
>>>> for 4.2.2. Could we enable this "workaround" only when we know it's 
>>>> not working without the CDATA?
>>>>
>>>> @Simon: Unless Jeff won't share the exact solution here (although I 
>>>> think he will ;-)) contact him about the issue directly, I'd say. 
>>>> And try to not save anything in the meantime.. :)
>>>
>>> I opened up a bug report and included the patch last week at [1].
>>>
>>> The best solution short term solution for an existing seems to be 
>>> recompiling PHP with expat support instead of libxml.  That's at 
>>> leaset how we fixed it for the site having problems.
>>>
>>> [1] http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9359
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> Ok, so I see that the patch modifies is so that any element modified 
>> now  does the cdata wrapping.
> 
> Correct.  If it has any special characters, CDATA is added rather than 
> using HTML entities.  Seems a little cleaner overall to me.
> 
>> Will the recompile to expat enable the site to display correctly  - or 
>> will I still need to go through each flexform element, correct them 
>> and resave?
> 
> For all content that has not already been resaved, the switch to expat 
> will make it work again becuase the HTML entities will no longer be 
> dropped.
> 
> For content that has been resaved, the HTML entities will already be 
> gone in the saved data so you'll have to tweak those manually.
> 
> Hope that helps :)
> 
> Jeff

Thanks very much.

Out of interest, when is 4.2.2 expected/estimated?

Thanks.

Simon