1. TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS
TYPO3 Conference Stuttgart 2013

2. Roadmap for Today
• History since 4.5
• What’s New in 6.2
• A Peak Preview
• Questions and Answers

3. Ernesto Baschny
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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

4. What happened
since?
2011...

5. TYPO3 CMS 4.6 - 4.7
2011 - 2012
• XLIFF Support
• Form Extension
• Deprecation Strategy starts kicking in
• HTML5 Frontend Rendering

6. Decision Year 2012
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TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
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Demand for a new LTS Version
➡ 4.5 support prolonged, 6.2 will be LTS
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Improve Quality Assurance
➡ Jenkins, Travis, QA-Responsible, Awareness
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CMS continues to converge to Neos/Flow

7. TYPO3 CMS 6.0 - 6.1
2012 - 2013
• Namespaces, New Bootstrap
• New XCLASS Handling
• File Abstraction Layer
• Categorization API

8. TYPO3 Release Agenda
2011 April
2011 October
2012 April
2012 October
2013 April
2013 October
2014 April
TYPO3 4.5 LTS
TYPO3 4.6
TYPO3 4.7
TYPO3 6.0
TYPO3 6.1
TYPO3 6.2 LTS
TYPO3 6.2 + 1
TYPO3 6.2 + 2
TYPO3 6.2 + 3
Main development
Regular bugfixes
Priority bugfixes & security bugfixes
2014 October
2015 April
2015 October
2016 April
2016 October

9. TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS

10. Release Timeline
TYPO3 6.2
April
May
June
July
August
October
November
December
beta1
TYPO3 6.1
September
beta2
6.2.0
TYPO3 6.2 LTS
alpha1
ACME
Nürnberg
alpha2
T3DD phpunit
CS
alpha3
FAL
CS
Essen
CS
Extbase
CS
Hannover T3CON
CS
Dec 10th

11. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability

12. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration huge 4.5 LTS userWe know about the
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

13. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness on the product from the
We want to work
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

14. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
The groundwork of TYPO3 should be
modern, but still realistic and timeless.
Let's finish the "last 20%" for important
loose ends.
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability

15. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
Technologies / Interoperability
• Modernwell aware of what's going on in the
We are
PHP world and Web technologies in general.
Keep TYPO3 in sync with modern technologies,
but avoid "experiments" in the LTS.

16. New Features

17. Responsive Images
• Flexible Support based on Responsive
Image Community Group suggestions
• Configurable and Customizable
• Support for HiRes Image Rendering
• Future Proof

18. 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)

19. Installation
• Install Tool Completely Refactored
• Usability Improvements
• Core Updater
• Let’s take a look
Christian Kuhn

20. Distributions
• Former „Introduction“ and „Government“
Packages
• typo3_src is the „Blank Package“
• Now distributable through TER
• Extension Manager provides API
to manage, fetch and install
Distributions

21. 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…

22. Smooth Migration
• Project on Forge
• Extension for Compat Check
• To-Dos:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3cms-smoothmigration
https://github.com/nxpthx/typo3-upgradereport
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Collect more Issues
Documentation and Awareness
Enhance Check Extension
Steffen Ritter

23. Have you contributed
to 6.2 already?