History

TYPO3 4.3 Roadmap

Below there's the timeline of each release to TYPO3 4.3.0-final. When the beta phase start this also sets the feature freeze. This means that no new features can be introduced for TYPO3 4.3 anymore and the development is focused on fixing bugs.

Alpha Phase

  • alpha1: November 12 2008
    • Improved Caching Framework (backported from FLOW3)
    • Integration of OpenID as authentication service
    • Extracted simulateStaticDocuments to system extension
    • Extracted frontend editing to system extension
    • Improvement in loading classes of frontend plugins
    • Integration of code-completion in the TypoScript editor "t3editor"
    • Improvements in RTEhtmlarea
    • Exclude extensions from being updated and overwritten ("excludeFromUpdates")
  • alpha2: March 11 2009
    • Integration of a random byte generator with better entropy
    • Replacement of "login expired" popup by extJS dialog
    • Integrated file operation permissions for user groups
    • Integration of extJS as common library
    • Integration of basic unit tests/framework for core classes
    • Improved recycling of deleted records
  • alpha3: May 23 2009
    • RSA authentication library/service
    • Integration of mass file uploader (based on Flash's multiple file selector)
    • Integration of MVC framework for extensions (backported from FLOW3 and enhanced for TYPO3v4 requirements)
    • Integration of autoloading for PHP classes

Beta Phase - feature freeze

  • beta1: October 1 2009
    • Localization of hardcoded phrases
    • Integrate scheduler to control and configure tasks that are triggered by cron job
    • Reports module to collect and visualize system specific events
    • Improved and modernized frontend editing
    • Integration of proper exception and error handling (backported from FLOW3)
    • Salted MD5 passwords for frontend and backend
    • dropped Integration of CSS/JS merger and minification to reduce HTTP server requests
    • dropped Refactor indexed search to incorporate external search engines
  • beta2: October 22 2009
    • Integration of conditions for TSconfig in backend
  • beta3: November 8 2009
    • Add proper documentation concerning security (methods, auth services, dependencies and configuration)

Release Candidate Phase

  • RC1: November 18 2009
    • Moved Advanced Frontend Editing to TER (EXT:feeditadvanced)
  • RC2: November 26 2009

Final Release

  • TYPO3 4.3.0: November 28 2009

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