[TYPO3-dev] [ANN] Pre-announcement for important security update

[Sascha Falger]

Sorry, but it seems the Download for 4.0.4 isnt working correctly. Or is 
the load too much?

kind regards

Sascha

Ingmar Schlecht schrieb:
> Dear fellow TYPO3 enthusiast,
> 
> we know you all are preparing for Christmas right now. We would
> therefore like to inform you in advance that you should be very awake
> and ready to do some maintenance on your TYPO3 installations soon.
> 
> During a security review it has been discovered that certain TYPO3-Core
> packages include a security risk with rather high impact. The
> security team has been working hard to prepare patches as well as
> announcements and helpful information since then.
> 
> Right now we are very close to releasing the patches as well as the
> announcement. This will happen 2006-12-20 14:00 CET and will be
> announced here.
> 
> So please be prepared and have someone of the admin-team available.
> Fixing things won't take long and we will provide updates for
> 3.7.x, 3.8.x as well as 4.0.x and 4.1beta1. We assured as much as we
> could that you don't have to worry about any upgrading/compatibility issues!
> 
> Please don't ask any further questions until then, as we are quite busy
> doing everything the right way. We have no evidence whatsoever that
> anyone noticed the problem or any exploits have been attempted yet. That
> could change as soon as the announcements are published, so please be
> prepared to take immediate action when applicable.
> 
> Peter Niederlag
> - TYPO3 Security Team -