news.typo3.org: TYPO3 4.4 beta3 released

31.05.10 18:00 Age: 2 yrs

TYPO3 4.4 beta3 released

Category: Development, Core Group, www.typo3.org

Today, the TYPO3 community released the third and last beta of the upcoming version 4.4 of TYPO3. The final release, planned for June 22nd 2010, is getting closer. If you have followed the last alpha and beta releases, you might have noticed that all features have already been included now. However, one last and very important change has just been included: A new look and feel to the TYPO3 Backend. Lars Zimmermann initially came up with an updated look of the current t3skin during the TYPO3 User Experience Week in 2009 while designing the new installer (also included in TYPO3 4.4, by the way). Big thanks go to Jens Hoffmann, overseeing the design process during the last weeks with Lars, and Steffen Gebert and Steffen Ritter who were in charge of implementing these modified designs.

There have been some improvements to the new Debug Bar, the Install Tool and the CSS/JS Compressor. Additionally, the Sprite API got improved, as there is now an additional API for creating sprites for the TYPO3 Core, as well as changes so the new icon sprites are used in the Backend.

Status of the Introduction Package

You probably have read about the introduction package, a new package that can be downloaded from TYPO3.org and includes a full featured template with a basic setup. The introduction package will arrive just in time with TYPO3 4.4, however is not officially ready yet. You can download the current development snapshot (no warranty for the package) from here.

Get your package

You can grab one of the following files from the download page.

MD5 checksums:

996df4a559071cab166927589b283519  dummy-4.4.0beta3.tar.gz
1dbeea1424145fc35ded07ad148ca30b  dummy-4.4.0beta3.zip
f3457d3940524d7084e0f3cf0fd0f258  typo3_src-4.4.0beta3.tar.gz
c83f8e87388727565d2cfb5e408ba705  typo3_src-4.4.0beta3.zip
5c615f080b6d433b750660055280d768  typo3_src+dummy-4.4.0beta3.zip

What's next?

The next steps are: Testing, testing, testing -- and that is something anybody can do. Please download the package and play around with it. Be sure to report every single bug on bugs.typo3.org.

Benjamin Mack
-- Release Manager TYPO3 4.4

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Janno Schouwenburg 31-05-10 22:52

Very very nice to see more TYPO3 User Experience week stuff getting integrated. Keep up the good work!

Mike Power 01-06-10 10:34

I am a huge fan of Typo3 and the work is Marvelous job ! keep up and thanks for all

Rikard 01-06-10 10:47

I have checked out the TYPO3 4.4 BETA and I must say that the new inteface looks great!

I keep getting the feeling that TYPO3 move towards a much more user friendly inteface, which I think will increase the growth of the system.

Thomas Juhnke 02-06-10 20:40

Thanks for the great improvements you guys done in the backend and - of course and most important - under the hood of TYPO3!

The Debug Bar/Console mentionend in the post currently isn't available without installing the TYPO3Viewport described here http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/TYPO3Viewport, isn't it?

tommy

Tomas 09-06-10 01:54

Why was it necessary to degrade the good enough design to this partially working strange thing?

Felix 30-06-10 13:29

Is there a chance to get the debug bar / console working in FE because ccdebug does not work correctly in BE since TYPO3 4.4. The new BE file compression and versioning breaks ccdebug in BE.

The (absolutly great) built-in console would be even nicer than ccdebugs pop-up!

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