[TYPO3-core] [TYPO3-dev] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 RC 1

[Ingo Renner]

Dear TYPO3 users,

The core team is proud to announce the first Release Candidate of TYPO3 
version 4.2. After the previous three Beta versions this Release 
Candidate starts the ramp down of TYPO3 4.2 development.

So what has changed?

Bugfixes

Most of the work since Beta 3 has been spent with fixing bugs. About 100 
bugs were fixed. All other fixes are rather minor and can be looked up 
in the ChangeLog [1].

Rich Text Editor

About a quarter of the fixed issues concerned the Rich Text Editor which 
should now be more stable and more compatible in general.

Inline Relational Record Editing (IRRE)

Another mayor field of work was IRRE with six bugs fixed.

Developer relevant changes

Until now it was not possible to xclass certain classes in TYPO3 due to 
the use of private PHP 5 visibility declaration. All private declaration 
were replaced with protected declarations and additional XCLASS 
declarations were added where they were missing.

Reminder: Raised minimum PHP version requirement

To run TYPO3 4.2 you need to have at least PHP 5.2 [2]. 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

As this is a release candidate we strongly recommend this version on 
your sites. This is now not only recommended to developers but also to 
all users.

Please test this release candidate version as much as possible, 
especially the new features introduced with the previous alpha and beta 
releases! 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/!

The next release will be release candidate 2. We will continue releasing 
RC versions in one week cycles until we feel the code base is good 
enough for a final release.

For a detailed overview of the features in 4.2 have a look at the 
Development wiki page [3], the bugtracker [4], and the ChangeLog [1].

You can download the packages at http://typo3.org/download/packages/.

MD5 Sums:
ba71231a214a745687504d432004d702  dummy-4.2.0RC1.tar.gz
9c02f0bedf9f3b2f824c783ca0eab8d3  dummy-4.2.0RC1.zip
cbc34a0ba33c38e11c15bfb47e3fb11f  typo3_src-4.2.0RC1.tar.gz
986517d7f1df7330c59ad05f977b34eb  typo3_src-4.2.0RC1.zip
587f998203e9d3ca0f27b19af3112fb4  typo3_src+dummy-4.2.0RC1.zip


cheers
Ingo

[1] 
http://typo3.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/typo3/TYPO3core/branches/TYPO3_4-2/ChangeLog?revision=3513&view=markup
[2] http://buzz.typo3.org/people/stucki/article/leaving-php4-behind/
[3] http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/4.2_Development
[4] http://bugs.typo3.org/


-- 
Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2