This document provides an overview of TYPO3 4.5 Long Term Support (LTS). It introduces the release team led by Ernesto Baschny and Steffen Kamper. The goals of 4.5 include long term support, an enterprise focus, improved usability, and compatibility with Internet Explorer 6. The roadmap outlines feature development through November 2010 followed by maintenance. Status updates are provided on projects to streamline the user interface, improve performance, enhance the enterprise features, and develop modern APIs.

1. TYPO3 4.5 – Long Term Support
2.10.2010
Steffen Kamper <steffen@typo3.org>
Ernesto Baschny <ernesto@typo3.org>
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2. Overview
• The Team
• Goals
• Roadmap, Current Standing
• Status of Projects
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Release Cycles
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Long Term
Support
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7. Roadmap for 4.5
today 4.5.0 beta1 4.5.0
Feature Development Bug fixing Maintainance
alpha1 alpha2 alpha3 beta2 beta3 rc1
Code Sprint in Stuttgart
July September November January
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8. 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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9. Status of Projects
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10. 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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11. Backend of 4.5 alpha2
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12. 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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13. 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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14. Screenshot: Workspaces
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15. 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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16. 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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