[TYPO3-v4] Announcing TYPO3 4.5 beta1

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Dear TYPO3 friends,

after a long day and a long night, tonight the TYPO3 community released
the first beta version of TYPO3 4.5. This marks the start of the feature
freeze phase in our development. Release of 4.5.0 is scheduled for the
end of January 2011.

For details about the release and the current progress, please read up on

http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki/TYPO3_450beta1

We again ship an Introduction Package with this beta release which
allows people to test the new features right away. You can of course
also opt to upgrade an existing installation to the new 4.5 beta1
version, but keep in mind that this is still a snapshot of our
development so far, and more changes and fixes will be included in
further releases.

During the next phase we will have two additional beta releases (beta2
at 1st December, beta2 at 22nd December), where we expect all introduced
features to mature and reach a very stable status. Please support the
work of the teams by testing and reporting your findings.

You can download the Beta packages from:

 http://typo3.org/download/packages/

MD5 checksums:
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0058ee77bee1e705c6dc4bee9dfdabb1  dummy-4.5.0beta1.zip
c4615cc6484473db183f76448f828fdd  typo3_src-4.5.0beta1.tar.gz
cf8606be6cece40f010aaf7281021c14  typo3_src-4.5.0beta1.zip
b35e28029797c435daf3f2945ee21dd7  typo3_src+dummy-4.5.0beta1.zip
abf929b015881a81a53ae23033a6b2e3  introductionpackage-4.5.0beta1.tar.gz
bd0b550a3b993730ed727075ba2c7c89  introductionpackage-4.5.0beta1.zip

Cheers,
Steffen Kamper (Technical Leader)
and Ernesto Baschny (Release Manager)