[TYPO3-announce] TYPO3 4.2 Alpha 1
Ingo Renner
ingo at typo3.org
Fri Sep 7 18:08:32 CEST 2007
The core team is proud to announce the first Alpha of TYPO3 version 4.2.
So what's new?
Backend improvements
You can now select in which module you start after you log in to the
backend. When installing a new extension that contains backend
modules they will show up immediately without the need of reloading
the backend.
The TypoScript Object Browser now displays comments from your TS
configurations.
Filter for the Page Tree
The navigation Page Tree now got a nifty searchbox to filter and
highlight/dim elements in the tree. This is very handy for quickly
finding your way through huge Page Trees. The navigation Page Tree is
now organized so that all pages shown in the menu are grouped in
their normal order while pages "Not in Menu" and SysFolders are
ordered alphabetically below. TSconfig options exists to configure/
disable both these features.
Moving of elements in Workspaces
Kasper Skårhøj implemented the long awaited feature to move elements
in workspace. Additionally Workspace "swapping" for "New"-
placeholders and "Deleted"-markers is now supported. Previously, both
types would be published, not swapped. An option was added to
completely turn off page and branch versioning (which are deprecated
for TYPO3 4.2+). The whole Workspace can be previewed now for users
with no backend login by a simple link you can email. Basically this
is the same functionality as the preview link for individual pages
available from the Web>Versioning module. You can find this function
in User>Workspace (Workspace manager).
Admin Panel overhaul
Now you can define a time limit for operations which are measured by
TYPO3's internal time tracking routines. Whenever this limit is
exceeded, the corresponding row will be highlighted in the Admin Panel.
Improvements for the RTE
RTEmagic images are now duplicated when records are copied/versioned
in tcemain. This is a long awaited feature that solves the bug that
RTE magic images shared between two records would result in both
disappearing if the one was deleted. Therefore this is also an
important fix for Workspaces.
New language
The Albanian language was added so that localizations can be
downloaded as they become available from the translators.
Raised minimum PHP version requirement
To run TYPO3 4.2alpha1 you need to have at least PHP 5.2. This move
was necessary to use features introduced since PHP 5.0 which we hope
will give a speed impovement to TYPO3.
As always
Other then the highlighted features we also packed a lot of bug
fixes, performance improvements, enthusiasm, and love into this release.
Next steps to 4.2
Please test this Alpha as much as possible, especially the new
features described above! If you're e.g. using one of the new
features in a project of yours already and discover bugs, please
report them immediately to http://bugs.typo3.org/!
During the next weeks, we will release two or three more Alphas
before locking down the development of new features. We will then
continue with Beta releases which are only meant for bug fixes before
turning to Release Candidates and the final version of TYPO3 4.2.
This means that you can expect the final version to be ready around
the end of January '08.
For a detailed overview of the features planned for 4.2 and their
progress, have a look at the 4.2 Development wiki page.
You can download the packages at http://typo3.org/download/packages/.
MD5 Sums:
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cf7c9f7e7e144e539c4e08cb67ba25c3 dummy-4.2.0alpha1.zip
ad492cc312c06d905b98fe6a5c0ba775 typo3_src-4.2.0alpha1.tar.gz
9bbbc430cdd00431cd79393a49ce5c45 typo3_src-4.2.0alpha1.zip
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cheers
Ingo
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