TYPO3 Association - TYPO3 Version 4.3 released: Frontend Editing and affirmed upgradeability

BAAR, 2009-11-30
Today the TYPO3 Association appear the newest adaptation of their conspicuously acknowledged Open Source activity TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.1 actor times – authoritative it one of the world’s arch Enterprise Open Source projects.

The latest TYPO3 adaptation 4.3 comes arranged with abundant casting new appearance and improvements. Highlights cover the absolutely new Frontend alteration bore and the affiliation of Extbase and Fluid. Additionally, TYPO3’s already accomplished aegis appearance accept been bigger even further.

TYPO3 adaptation 4.3 innovations in detail:

The absolutely revised Frontend alteration now provides a avant-garde attending and feel, and makes alive with agreeable automatic and stress-free. Using “drag & drop”, agreeable elements can be confused or deleted, lightbox-based alteration takes abode anon on the page, and the absolute page no best needs to be reloaded if you use AJaX-technology to save changes. TemplaVoila as able-bodied as archetypal templating are of advance absolutely supported. However, the new Frontend alteration is not allotment of the TYPO3 Core, and has to be installed as a “feeditadvanced” extension. This allows updates of the addendum in a added common and acceptable way.

The two extensions “Extbase” and “Fluid” bland the way for a airy clearing to TYPO3 adaptation 5. Both extensions are backports from FLOW3 and accordingly already acquiesce future-proof development application TYPO3 adaptation 4.
Using Extbase, developers can use the MVC-Concept (Model View Controller) for development, while accompanying ensuring affinity with TYPO3 adaptation 5.
With Fluid, TYPO3 adaptation 4 is broadcast with a new and awful adjustable templating engine. Fluid combines accustomed account and concepts from altered templating approaches.

Although TYPO3 is advised to be one of the a lot of defended Open Source Content Management Systems available, TYPO3 adaptation 4.3 improves aegis even further.
Using “Salted MD5 Hashes” for countersign accumulator makes unauthorised decryption about impossible. At the aforementioned time this action can be acclimated clearly in custom extensions.
Sensitive abstracts can be transferred over a defended approach application RSA affidavit even if the website does not abutment HTTPS.
Furthermore, affidavit of frontend and backend users is now optionally accessible over OpenID.

Besides bigger security, TYPO3 users can attending advanced to accepting a added acceptable TYPO3 backend.
A Flash uploader allows accompanying uploading of assorted files. Automatic cipher achievement and an chip affidavit with able as-you-type suggestions accept been added to the TypoScript Editor, t3editor. This will abnormally advice beginners apprentice TypoScript and abetment beat developers in autograph error-free cipher added quickly.
For abounding users the a lot of accessible addition may be the new recycler. It allows abating of deleted annal in a acceptable and apprehensible way.

Thanks to the new arrangement scheduler, the TYPO3 Core now offers a axial area to administer tasks which should appear on authentic dates or at approved intervals. This no best requires the conception of several CRON jobs on the server – every addendum can now actualize its own tasks and accept them accomplished by the arrangement scheduler. Management of tasks is aboveboard application the arrangement scheduler backend module.

Backend developers can now aswell use altitude in TSconfig. This has already continued been accessible in the frontend application TypoScript, but with TYPO3 adaptation 4.3 this affection is now aswell accessible for PageTSconfig and UserTSconfig.
Integration of the acclaimed JavaScript framework Ext JS as a accepted library offers simple yet able possibilities to actualize adorable user interfaces. For example, Ext JS supports filigree views, chat windows and activating panels and a lot more.
Searching for deprecated functions in custom addendum will be a lot easier now with a “deprecation log”. Developers can analysis the log entries and amend their extensions, back these deprecated functions will be removed absolutely with TYPO3 adaptation 4.5 at the latest.
The absurdity and barring administration of FLOW3 has aswell been backported, in band with the ambition of abatement the alteration amid TYPO3 versions 4 and 5.

Website projects relying on top achievement will accumulation from two new appearance in TYPO3 adaptation 4.3. Autoloading alone endless files into the anamnesis that are absolutely bare for an application. This after-effects in a affecting advance of performance.
The new alternative caching framework which was backported from FLOW3 aswell adds to performance. It offers altered methods to abundance abstracts in the database, in the filesystem and in memcached environments. Furthermore, accumulation entries can be tagged, giving developers added flexibility.

Get TYPO3 adaptation 4.3 now!
TYPO3 adaptation 4.3 can be downloaded anon from www.typo3.org/download/. Technical affidavit and the abundant absolution addendum can be begin at typo3.org/release-notes/typo3-43/

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TYPO3 - The Enterprise CMS
TYPO3 is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management System appear beneath the GPL. It runs on added than 130,000 servers worldwide. The appliance has been translated into 42 languages and is actively accepting developed by a association of over 44,000 developers in over 60 countries. Some of its users cover DaimlerChrysler, General Electric, the United Nations and Harvard University, as able-bodied as abundant added companies, universities, government agencies and non-profit organizations.
For added advice on TYPO3, amuse appointment www.typo3.com and www.typo3.org.

About the TYPO3 Association
The TYPO3 Association is an affiliation beneath Swiss law (as authentic in Articles 60 et seq of the Swiss Civil Code), which was founded in November 2004 by associates of the TYPO3 community, including Kasper Skårhøj. The TYPO3 Association is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland (Switzerland).

According to its statutes, the TYPO3 Association is announcement the chargeless TYPO3 activity beneath the GNU General Public License. The TYPO3 Association is a non accumulation organization, authoritative software development by third parties about available. To accounts the development and appoint able developers, the affiliation collects membership-fees and donations for development projects.

The TYPO3 Association is politically and religiously neutral.

The affiliation consists of associates and sponsors, whose names can be begin on its website (association.typo3.org).

Source: TYPO3 Association Press Office
Author: Søren Schaffstein, Press Officer of the TYPO3 Association
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TYPO3 Association Website: association.typo3.org

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Søren Schaffstein
Press Officer of the TYPO3 Association
Sihlbruggstrasse 105
6340 Baar
Switzerland

Phone: +41 41 5110 00 35
Fax: +41 41 5110 00 39
Email: soeren@typo3.org