TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS TYPO3 Conference Stuttgart 2013

Roadmap for Today

• History since 4.5

• What’s New in 6.2

• A Peak Preview

• Questions and Answers

Ernesto Baschny

• cron IT GmbH - Stuttgart - since 2002

• TYPO3 Core Developer since 2004

• TYPO3 4.5 LTS Release Manager 2010-2011

• TYPO3 6.2 LTS Release Manager 2013

What happened since?

2011...

TYPO3 CMS 4.6 - 4.72011 - 2012

• XLIFF Support

• Form Extension

• Deprecation Strategy starts kicking in

• HTML5 Frontend Rendering

Decision Year 2012

• TYPO3 development won‘t stop

➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x

• Demand for a new LTS Version

➡ 4.5 support prolonged, 6.2 will be LTS

• Improve Quality Assurance

➡ Jenkins, Travis, QA-Responsible, Awareness

• CMS continues to converge to Neos/Flow

TYPO3 CMS 6.0 - 6.12012 - 2013

• Namespaces, New Bootstrap

• New XCLASS Handling

• File Abstraction Layer

• Categorization API

2011 April

TYPO3 Release Agenda

TYPO3 4.5 LTS

Main development Regular bugfixes Priority bugfixes & security bugfixes

TYPO3 4.6

TYPO3 4.7

TYPO3 6.0

TYPO3 6.2 LTS

TYPO3 6.1

TYPO3 6.2 + 2

TYPO3 6.2 + 3

TYPO3 6.2 + 1

2011 October 2012 April 2012 October 2013 April 2013 October 2014 April 2014 October 2015 April 2015 October 2016 April 2016 October

TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS

Release Timeline TYPO3 6.2

April May June July August September October November December

TYPO3 6.2 LTS

alpha1 alpha2 alpha3

beta1 beta2 6.2.0TYPO3 6.1

ACMENürnberg

T3DD phpunitCS

FALCS

EssenCS

HannoverCS

T3CON

ExtbaseCS

Dec 10th

Main Goals

• Smooth Migration

• User Happiness

• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation

• Modern Technologies / Interoperability

Main Goals

• Smooth MigrationWe know about the huge 4.5 LTS user-base. Let those be able to migrate to the new modern code-base as easy as possible.

• User Happiness

• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation

• Modern Technologies / Interoperability

Main Goals

• Smooth Migration

• User HappinessWe want to work on the product from the users point of view (customer, agency, integrator). Making their experience fun and consistent should guide our efforts.

• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation

• Modern Technologies / Interoperability

Main Goals

• Smooth Migration

• User Happiness

• Robust, Stable and Secure FoundationThe groundwork of TYPO3 should be modern, but still realistic and timeless.Let's finish the "last 20%" for important loose ends.

• Modern Technologies / Interoperability

Main Goals

• Smooth Migration

• User Happiness

• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation

• Modern Technologies / InteroperabilityWe are well aware of what's going on in the PHP world and Web technologies in general. Keep TYPO3 in sync with modern technologies, but avoid "experiments" in the LTS.

New Features

Responsive Images

• Flexible Support based on Responsive Image Community Group suggestions

• Configurable and Customizable

• Support for HiRes Image Rendering

• Future Proof

File Abstraction Layer• Resolved

• Drag&Drop Upload

• Missing Files Handling

• Multi-Language Support

• Categorization

• Versioning of Meta-Data

• Advanced Metadata Set (EXT:filemetadata)

• Work in Progress

• Indexing Refactoring (with Extraction Interface)

• Media Extension (as an Extension in TER)

Installation

• Install Tool Completely Refactored

• Usability Improvements

• Core Updater

• Let’s take a look

Christian Kuhn

Distributions

• Former „Introduction“ and „Government“ Packages

• typo3_src is the „Blank Package“

• Now distributable through TER

• Extension Manager provides APIto manage, fetch and install Distributions

Other Goodies

• Usability Cleanups (WIP)

• Backend Layout Data Provider

• PSR-3 Compatible Logging API

• Salted Passwords by Default

• Documentation Module

• Flow Packages and Composer Support

• Many more…

Smooth Migration

• Project on Forgehttp://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3cms-smoothmigration

• Extension for Compat Checkhttps://github.com/nxpthx/typo3-upgradereport

• To-Dos:

• Collect more Issues • Documentation and Awareness • Enhance Check Extension

Steffen Ritter

Have you contributed to 6.2 already?