[TYPO3-german] [TYPO3-dev] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 RC 2

[Ingo Renner]

Dear TYPO3 users,

The core team is proud to announce the second Release Candidate of TYPO3 
version 4.2. We now think that we do have all blockers for a final 
release fixed so that if no critical bugs are found in this release 
candidate this will be the final release of TYPO3 4.2.

What has changed?

Bugfixes

Most of the changes since RC 1 are bug fixes that were found in RC 1. We 
fixed 23 bugs. Included in these 23 bugs are also 10 bug fixes auctioned 
during the TYPO3 Snowboard Tour in Laax.

User Interface Polishing

Apart from the bug fixes we also put some last minute user interface 
polishing into the release so that the control icons in the extended 
list view are now aligned in columns. New icons have been added here and 
there, too to make the backend look more consistent.

Reminder: Raised minimum PHP version requirement

To run TYPO3 4.2 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 community developers engaged in fixing bugs and providing features.

Next steps to 4.2

As this is a release candidate we strongly recommend to test 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/!

As mentioned in the beginning we think that we have fixed all ciritical 
bugs and expect to make RC2 the final release if no new critical bugs 
turn up. We will release the final release of TYPO3 4.2 in one week from 
now if no critical bugs are found. In case there are critical issues 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 [2], the bugtracker [3], and the ChangeLog [4].

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

MD5 Sums:
53af9d0b04d234387199fa3ff2eeeeec  dummy-4.2.0RC2.tar.gz
f676220d53a563a311d43588c386008c  dummy-4.2.0RC2.zip
0c866768291e5305857f11d37fbe9352  typo3_src-4.2.0RC2.tar.gz
41e937061da3ef69742e9a3eda1a5991  typo3_src-4.2.0RC2.zip
8dce307a5c4a35ad6cd0cdf2a4fce10d  typo3_src+dummy-4.2.0RC2.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?view=markup&pathrev=3589


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