[TYPO3-project-4-3] TYPO3 4.3 status report

[Oliver Hader]

TYPO3 4.3 Development status report

*General*
There once was an announcement that these status reports will appear on
a weekly basis - hum, many weeks passed by since the last report. I have
to appologize for that!

*Roadmap*
The roadmap [1] to TYPO3 4.3 has been updated and the releases have been
postponed by two months. The reasons for that are some more important
new features that have been planned to be released with TYPO3 4.3 during
the coding weekend in Karlsruhe [2]:
* MVC framework [3] for extensions as a backport from FLOW3 and enhanced
for TYPO3v4 requirements
* TCEforms refactoring that puts the current situation in an object
oriented environment and thus is more flexible for specific needs

*Open tasks for TYPO3 4.3 alpha2*
The alpha2 release is planned for February 15 2009.
Here are the tasks that are essential for that release:
* Integration of autoloading for PHP classes
* Integration of the modernized frontend editing
* Integration of the imporved recycling [4] of deleted records
* Integration of the mass file uploader (based on Flash's multiple file
selector)
* Integration of improved caching behaviours on client-side by accordant
.htaccess files
* Bugfixes/Checks to have Internet Explorer working in the TYPO3 backend
with the most used functions (GUI in general, RTE, etc.)


Rock on!
olly


Links:
[1] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/typo3v4-core/43_roadmap
[2] http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-coding-weekend-in-karlsruhe/
[3] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/typo3v4-mvc
[4] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-recycler
-- 
Oliver Hader
TYPO3 Release Manager 4.3