[TYPO3-announce] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 Beta 3

[Ingo Renner]

Dear TYPO3 users,

The core team is proud to announce the third Beta of TYPO3 version  
4.2. After the previous two Beta versions this Beta is mostly a bug  
fix and minor improvements release, too. However there are some  
developer and administrator related changes.

So what has changed?

Cleaner Backend Project

The new editor toolbar was added to some more moduls leaving only a  
few without it. Another smaller usability improvement includes the now  
persistently visible author and author email fields in the page  
properties.

Administrator relevant changes

Changes have been made to better support completely utf-8 based  
systems and the migration to utf-8 by also improving the SQL parser  
engine. Commandline scripts should now work on Windows, too. A new  
small feature was introduced to display a HTML file during maintenance  
and page unavailable handling was improved.

Developer relevant changes

An option was introduced to completely turn off the no_cache  
parameter, although this option is off by default it is likely that is  
will get enabled by default with TYPO3 4.4 or 4.5, please make sure  
you use proper caching in your extensions. A new input field type is  
available in TCEforms, you can now use a directory picker. New hooks  
are available in tslib_content, post processing for frontend editing,  
and after generated pages are written to the cache so that you can  
replace global marker like a user's username here.

Bugfixes

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 and beta 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/ 
!

The next release will be release candidate 1. RC1 is expexted within  
the next one or two weeks so that the target for a final release of  
TYPO3 4.2 stays 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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ce5ce68da267fd919aeae79bd61e5e05  dummy-4.2.0beta3.zip
0a13514f982134c99a08cb6cc8dc62a0  typo3_src-4.2.0beta3.tar.gz
35c9c5db920b701d3305b16f80c3cb70  typo3_src-4.2.0beta3.zip
14deeadbd14a248ab65a30359f24960c  typo3_src+dummy-4.2.0beta3.zip


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=3381&view=markup

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



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