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TYPO3 4.5 – Long Term Support

Steffen Kamper <steffen@typo3.org>Ernesto Baschny <ernesto@typo3.org>

2.10.2010

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• The Team

• Goals

• Roadmap, Current Standing

• Status of Projects

Overview

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Release Team

• Release Manager Ernesto Baschny

• Manager of cron IT GmbH

• TYPO3 since 2003, Core Team Member since 2005

• Technical Leader Steffen Kamper

• Jazz pianist and freelance programmer

• TYPO3 since 2006, Core Team Member since 2008

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Release Team Supporter

• Oliver Hader

• Core Team Leader

• Benjamin Mack

• Release Manager for 4.4

• Ben van't Ende

• Community Manager

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Goals in 4.5

• Umbrella Goal: Long Term Support (LTS)

• Enterprise Focused

• Streamline Usability

• Compatible with Internet Explorer 6

• Modern Components: Create, Use, Refine APIs

• Stable and fully backward compatible

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Release CycleswithLong TermSupport

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Roadmap for 4.5

MaintainanceFeature Development Bug fixing

alpha1 alpha2 alpha3

4.5.0 beta1

beta2 beta3 rc1rc1

4.5.0today

July September November January

Code Sprint in Stuttgart

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Code Sprint, Stuttgart

• October, 14th to 17th

• 50 invited active contributors

• Finishing team tasks

• Getting things done before feature freeze (November, 10th)

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Status of Projects

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Streamlining the User Interface

• Page Tree and Context Menus API (Stefan Galinski, Susanne Moog) 50%

• Viewport for the Backend 90%

• ExtJS based modules menu 70%

• Grid view for page module (Thomas Hempel, Jo Hasenau) 60%

• Modern extension manager (Steffen Kamper) 60%

• Install tool enhancements (Patrick Broens) in progress

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Backend of 4.5 alpha2

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The Fastest TYPO3 ever

• Frontend performance (Rupert Germann) pending

• Improvements of caching framework (Christian Kuhn) in progress

• Performance of Extbase (Jochen Rau) in progress

• Performance improvements for DBAL (Xavier Perseguers) 60%

• More Indexed Search speed improvements (Dmitry Dulepov) in progress

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TYPO3: the Enterprise CMS

• Workspaces improvements (Sonja Scholz and Workspaces Team) 75%

• UTF-8 by default (Michael Stucki) 90%

• Backend XHTML conformance / cleanup (Jo Hasenau) in progress

• DBAL: Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL (Xavier Perseguers) in progress

• Lightbox: Easy integration (Susanne Moog) 100%

• Get rid of all inline styles (Ernesto Baschny) pending

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Screenshot: Workspaces

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Using and creating modern APIs

• TypoScript Improvements, Features and Speed (Jo Hasenau, Steffen Kamper) 40%

• Extbase / Fluid Enhancements (Jochen Rau, Extbase Team) 50%

• Modern Mail API (Ernesto Baschny) 30%

• Editor for the backend with syntax highlighting (Tobias Liebig) 50%

• Maintanence tasks through the scheduler (Christian Kuhn) pending

• Reports module improvements (Ingo Renner) 50%

• File abstraction layer ("lightweight DAM") (Andreas Wolf) in progress

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Participate!

• You can help! Scratch your itch and help us

• Together we can make 4.5 the best release ever

• http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects

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