[TYPO3-announce] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 Beta 2

Sat Feb 23 11:12:57 CET 2008

Dear TYPO3 users,

The core team is proud to announce the second Beta of TYPO3 version  
4.2. As we had a feature freeze with the release of Beta 1 earlier  
this month, this Beta is entirely a bug fix and minor improvements  
release.

So what has changed?

Cleaner Backend Project

The new editor toolbar is now added to nearly every core backend  
module making the backend look even more consistent. Tabs as in the  
page properties were also introduced for content elements, frontend  
users, frontend usergroups, backend users, backend usergroups, and  
TypoScript templates so that fields are now grouped and can be found  
faster. The new shortcut menu got a small help text when there are not  
shortcuts added yet.

One more thing(s)

This release features our one more thing for TYPO3 4.2. The Web Access  
module has gained AJAX support. When setting permissions for users or  
groups you can now directly click the setting you want to change to  
toggle between allowed and disallowed in the permissions matrix. Give  
it a try!

The "Open Documents" extension listing all backend forms you've  
currently opened, has seen another bunch of improvements under the  
hood; yet some necessary CSS changes have not yet gone in, so test it,  
but don't expect it to look good yet!

The TypoScript editor with highlighting and all sorts of features  
which make editing a breeze has been fixed to work correctly in  
Firefox 2 now. However, Internet Explorer support seems to be broken  
right now, but the author Tobias Liebig is already working on a fix.  
If you notice any bugs with T3Editor on Firefox in this release, don't  
hesitate to report the bug either on the dev mailinglist or in the  
bugtracker.

A small feature which comes in handy when you're using IRRE to manage  
your data collections is the possibility to hide tables from the "New  
record" link in the backend by means of the TSConfig option  
"mod.web_list.deniedNewTables", so you can finally ensure that IRRE  
child tables are only created and edited from within their parent  
record.

Negative Timestamps

One thing those of you who are born before the date of 01/01/1970 will  
especially appreciate is that you will now be able to save your birth  
date in date/datetime fields in backend forms. This was actually an  
issue with PHP on some operating systems which was fixed in PHP 5.1.  
TYPO3 now makes use of the fixed issues and can now internally handle  
"negative timestamps" which makes it possibe to save dates starting  
from 1902 (still with an upper limit of year 2038).

Linking across domains in a tree

When you have more than one domain in your tree, like www.example.com  
and other.example.com a link from the former to the later would result  
in awrong link with the wrong domain. This issue was resolved and an  
updated version of EXT:realurl making use of that should be available  
soon, too.

Performance improvements

In an attempt to clean up the important library t3lib_div some slow  
PHP functions were replaced by faster ones.

Bugfixes

A lot of minor bugfixes were added, especially concerning CSS styling  
issues and JavaScript errors. Nested *_INT TypoScript objects were not  
woking, this has been fixed. All other fixes are rather minor and can  
be looked up in the ChangeLog.

Reminder: Raised minimum PHP version requirement

To run TYPO3 4.2beta2 you need to have at least PHP 5.2 [1]. 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

Please test this beta version as much as possible, especially the new  
features from the previous alpha releases and those described above!  
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/ 
!

Due to some bigger issues with broken handling of client/server  
timezone calculation that have poped up meanwhile we will need to have  
a third beta release to get everything fixed and tested properly to  
keep our high quality standards. Beta3 is expexted within the next one  
or two weeks, after that we want to start release candidate phase so  
that the new target for a final release of TYPO3 4.2 is now mid to end  
of March.

For a detailed overview of the features planned for 4.2 and their  
progress, have a look at the 4.2 Development wiki page [2], the  
bugtracker [3], and the ChangeLog [4].

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

MD5 Sums:
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cheers
Ingo

[1] http://buzz.typo3.org/people/stucki/article/leaving-php4-behind/
[2] http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/4.2_Development
[3] http://bugs.typo3.org/
[4] http://typo3.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/typo3/TYPO3core/branches/TYPO3_4-2/ChangeLog?revision=3272&view=markup

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

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