[TYPO3-project-4-3] Announcing TYPO3 4.3.0alpha3

[Vahan Amirbekyan]

great news!
I guess we will have 4.3 out by the end of summer the earliest. Which is 
not bad considering its value. The important thing is not to loose the 
momentum of community.

One question Oliver..
I need to start using memcached asap and was waiting for 4.3, but at 
this moment I am thinking of start using it now. 4.3 has some memcached 
framework that I was looking forward to use. I am using 4.2.6 now. Does 
it make sense to create a patch for memcached for 4.2.6, or maybe start 
using one of exts I found, or maybe something else so that when 4.3 
comes out I do nto go through to much refactoring of the code.

thank you for your advise in advance.
vahan


Oliver Hader wrote:
> The TYPO3 Core Team is proud to announce the third alpha release of
> TYPO3 version 4.3. Get a short overview of the most important changes.
> 
> So, what's new in this release?
> 
> *General*
> 
> Integration of Extbase and Fluid
> 
> Extbase and Fluid are backports from FLOW3 to bring MVC and a very
> flexible templating engine to TYPO3 v4. Extbase can be used in TYPO3 4.3
> for frontend extensions only, but it's planned to support backend
> modules in TYPO3 4.4 as well. The techniques used by these two packages
> are the same as in FLOW3/TYPO3 5.0. Thus, it's possible to develop
> future-proof extensions now and easily migrate them to TYPO3 5.0 it is
> released. Having Extbase and Fluid in TYPO3 v4 is an important milestone
> in the transition to TYPO3 5.0. The extension blog_example [1] is
> available as a demonstration of how Extbase and Fluid can be used.
> Note: Since Extbase uses PHP Reflection, PHPdoc comments must be enabled
> to ensure Extbase working properly. eAccelerator must be compiled with
> "--with-eaccelerator-doc-comment-inclusion" for example. Otherwise
> eAccelerator must be disabled in order to make Extbase work.
> 
> Integration of RSA authentication service
> 
> Using public-key cryptography allows sensitive data to be transfered
> over a secure channel, even if the website does not support HTTPS. This
> feature allows password data to be stored as a salted hash value. The
> RSA authentication service can be used in the frontend and backend by
> enabling the system extension rsaauth.
> Note: The service requires either the openssl PHP extension or the
> openssl binary.
> 
> Integration of autoloading for PHP classes
> 
> With this feature, only the files that are really needed for an
> application are loaded into memory. This results in a dramatic
> performance improvement. The PHP files are looked up using a registry
> file that returns a simple array mapping PHP class names to the
> corresponding file names. The file t3lib/core_autoload.php contains all
> core related classes of t3lib and tslib. The file ext_autoload.php
> provides similar data for individual extensions. The extension
> "extdeveval" helps generate these autoload registry files automatically.
> 
> *Backend improvements*
> 
> Integration of a mass file uploader
> 
> Uploading files is now available with an optional Flash Uploader which
> shows a nice widget with information on the upload progress. It makes it
> possible to select multiple files at once. Enable the Flash Uploader by
> checking the appropriate checkbox in the User Setup, reload the backend
> and make sure that your browser has the latest version of Flash (Flash
> v9+) installed.
> 
> *Frontend improvements*
> 
> Cleaning up CSS styled content
> 
> CSS styled content was split into separate files for each compatibility
> versions of TYPO3 (3.8, 3.9, 4.2 and current). When including the static
> template of css_styled_content, a specific version must be chosen.
> 
> Image rendering and GIFBUILDER improvements
> 
> The profile data of images is now cut off by default to reduce file
> sizes. This behaviour can be modified or disabled in the install tool or
> by setting the TypoScript property "stripProfile" on IMAGE objects.
> GIFBUILDER now supports automatic line breaks by defining a maximum
> width of the element to be rendered. The new TypoScript properties are
> "breakWidth" and "breakSpace".
> 
> *Next steps to climb the TYPO3 4.3 hill*
> 
> Please test this alpha release as much as possible, especially the new
> features from the first two alpha releases and those described above! If
> you're using one of the new features in a project already and discover
> bugs, please report them immediately to http://bugs.typo3.org/ [2]!
> 
> If you're upgrading from a previous TYPO3 version, please make sure to
> execute the database analyzer and update wizard in the TYPO3 install tool.
> 
> During the next few weeks, we will release a beta version which defines
> the "feature freeze" and locks down the development of new features. In
> the beta phase we will continue with fixing bugs only before turning to
> release candidates and the final version of TYPO3 4.3. This means that
> you can expect the final version to be ready in July 2009.
> 
> For a detailed overview of the features planned for TYPO3 4.3 and their
> progress, have a look at the TYPO3 v4 Development Page [3], the
> bugtracker, and the ChangeLog. The list of pending documentation [4] in
> the wiki describes the new properties and tells how they can be used.
> 
> You can download the packages at http://typo3.org/download/packages/ [5].
> 
> MD5 checksums:
> 
> ab3d8d6d4311b33ce1db0fe193273608  dummy-4.3.0alpha3.tar.gz
> 59deeda2d5285e1922d46691830a6821  dummy-4.3.0alpha3.zip
> 47124c54b8a34a4f00e390174780bc28  typo3_src-4.3.0alpha3.tar.gz
> 0c0bea78ac580564fb1904a227262ced  typo3_src-4.3.0alpha3.zip
> 8774acde8abe834023ecbb40b05fb391  typo3_src+dummy-4.3.0alpha3.zip
> 
> 
> Rock on!
> Olly
> 
> 
> Links:
> [1] http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/blog_example/current/
> [2] http://bugs.typo3.org/
> [3] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/typo3v4-core
> [4] http://wiki.typo3.org/Pending_Documentation
> [5] http://typo3.org/download/packages/
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