You better not update TYPO3 CMS 4.5 to version 4.5.26 yet if still using PHP5.2.

PHP Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /.../typo3_4.5/typo3/sysext/extbase/Classes/Persistence/Storage/Typo3DbBackend.php on line 854
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /.../typo3_4.5/typo3/sysext/extbase/Classes/Persistence/Storage/Typo3DbBackend.php on line 854

Uncomment this line or update to PHP5.3.

Sometimes I am just shocked how terrible bad I18N support got in TYPO3 CMS. This is really a shame.

Many needed improvements and interesting new features. I think I will upgrade soon.

TYPO3 6.1 Release Notes on Typo3

TYPO3 is a free, feature-rich Enterprise class Open Source Web CMS based on PHP with a vast international community of developers and supporters. typo3.org is the official resource for TYPO3 and offers tutorials, downloads, an extension repository and information about the TYPO3 community like mailing lists, blog, events

But still some basic functions like I18N for FAL are missing. Looking to the new media management extension. Hope this will improve the situation.

A great overview of what has changed:
http://typo3.org/fileadmin/t3org/images/FM-news/2013/releases/TYPO3-v6-1-whats-new.pdf

Version 4.6 has reached it's end of life, and TYPO3 CMS 4.7 reached end of regular bug-fixes maintenance. But it got a 6months extended priority bug-fix and security support until April 2014.

European TYPO3 Conference 2013 on Typo3

The European TYPO3 Conference 2013 will be held from Tuesday October 29 - Thursday October 31 in Filderhalle, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Stuttgart, Germany. The conference concept for this year is new, exciting, different and hot. You want to be there.

Toller Workaround für diese sonst nicht ganz so schöne Fehlermeldung in jfmulticontent.

jfmulticontent und Backend-Layouts: Aktueller Wert ist nicht erlaubt - jweiland.net on Jweiland

"Aktueller Wert ist nicht erlaubt (93)" in der Spaltenauswahl - Problem der Extension jfmulticontent in Verbindung mit Backend-Layouts

Nice extension (moc_varnish) when you want to use #Varnish web application accelerator in front of a TYPO3 site.

MOC Varnish (moc_varnish) - TYPO3 - The Enterprise Open Source CMS on Typo3

Extension that provides useful features when using Varnish with TYPO3, like cache-clearing and automatic ESI.

Die Lösungen werden auch immer interessanter.

DynCSS | TYPO3 Blogger by Kay Strobach on Typo3blogger

Wolltest du schon immer mal dynamisches CSS (less, scss oder turbine) in TYPO3 nutzen? DynCSS will dieses Problem mit Adaptern für die jeweilige Sprache lösen.

Interesting #jQuery timeline.

SIMILE Widgets | Timeline on Simile-widgets

Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license. This software was originally sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the SIMILE project. Its original author is David François Huynh. Now it is being maintained and developed by many members of this open-source community....

There is also a @TYPO3 extension in TER:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/pcsimiletimeline/

TYPO3 CMS 6.1.0 Beta 1 released on Typo3

After a long weekend for a lot of contributors and some cool improvements the TYPO3 world has one more TYPO3 release - CMS 6.1 Beta 1. The feature freeze for the upcoming version has now been reached.

Sounds like some interesting changes with related news.

Extension news - Release Notes 2-1-0 - TYPO3 Forge on Typo3

There are some news about the LTS releases of TYPO3 CMS. 6.2 will be the next LTS in October 2013 and the LTS Support of 4.5 got prolonged until October 2014 for a longer transition period.

TYPO3 CMS Agenda: More long-term support on Typo3

In a year from now, TYPO3 4.5 LTS was originally planned to reach end of life. The TYPO3 Core Team is pleased to announce the schedule for the upcoming TYPO3 releases including the next release with Long Term Support (LTS). Additionally, the lifetime of TYPO3 4.5 LTS will be extended.

Just took a look at the program for the Inspiring Flow conference on 19./20.4.2013 and there are some talks I would really like to see. But I don't think I can attend it this time.

Program - InspiringFlow on Inspiring-flow

Inspiring Flow offers a fabulous lineup of high profile speakers. We are looking forward to two days packed with knowledge, networking and pure Flow fun. Friday night we will have a party like a decent conference should! We are looking forward to partying, networking, and chatting with the TYPO3, Flow and PHP community! Also there will be cake. And...

Updating TYPO3 for the first time through FTP this evening. This is not working at all. Already 2 hours uploading the new files. Over 9000 files and 1500 folders.
I always used git and it is so quick and easy. FTP is just a PITA.

There is a new release for the extension caretaker in TER. It's a nice monitoring solution for TYPO3 instances.

There are some interesting lightning talks from #FOSDEM http://video.fosdem.org/2013/lightningtalks/

This talk is about the #TYPO3 development infrastructure:
http://video.fosdem.org/2013/lightningtalks/The_development_infrastructure_of_the_TYPO3_project.webm


and this one espcially about the code review with #gerrit in TYPO3:
http://video.fosdem.org/2013/lightningtalks/Using_Gerrit_Code_Review_in_an_open_source_project.webm


@TYPO3

Finally 6.0.1 got released today. A lot of necessary bugfixes! If you use 6.0 you should update.

TYPO3 6.0.1 - TYPO3Wiki

This document contains information about TYPO3 version 6.0.1 which was released on January 29th 2013. The usual upgrading procedure applies. No database updates are necessary. Here is a list of what was fixed since 6.0.0: If you have skipped one version while upgrading to this version, please make sure to read those ReleaseNotes (see list) also....

There is a new official TYPO3 forum forum.typo3.org. It is another way to access the mailinglists. What do you think? I still prefer the good old #NNTP newsgroups for accessing these lists. (nntp://lists.typo3.org)

TYPO3 Forum: Welcome to the forum on Typo3

inspiring people to share

I already used news from git in the last weeks and nice to see that it got a new stable release now with all the new features and changes.

Release of 2.0.0 of the news extension on Montagmorgen

After a long time of coding and just pushing to git & gerrit, there is again a release of the extension "news" to the TER. Read all about the new features

Someone already using TYPO3.Surf for deploying TYPO3 CMS projects?
That's really something I will set up this year. Looks like I could also use it to deploy other applications.

git.typo3.org Git - FLOW3/Packages/TYPO3.Surf.git/summary on Typo3

Played around with #cal and some #html5 and #microformats today. By default cal seems to have basic support for #hCalendar. I tried to extend it a bit and also add http://schema.org/Event declarations.
I don't know what this will be actually good for or if it is useful at all. Right now just playing bit around. Still quite buggy, not finished yet and also much space for optimisations still.

How do you add semantic to your events?

Heres some #TypoScript:
# configure single event view
plugin.tx_cal_controller.view.event.event {
  # Event title is displayed as page title and outside of the event declaration, so add it as meta-tag
  title.dataWrap = <meta itemprop="name" content="|">
  # declare image itemprop
  image.stdWrap.dataWrap = |
  image.1.params = itemprop="image"
  # this declaration is done in template because always visible
  startdate.dataWrap = |
  # wrap in HTML5 time-tag
  enddate {
    dataWrap = |</time>
    prepend = TEXT
    prepend.dataWrap = <time datetime="|" itemprop="endDate" class="dtend">
    prepend.field = end
    prepend.strftime = %Y%m%dT%H%M00
  }
  # TODO this should be visible if enddate is not visible
  microformat_enddate = TEXT
  microformat_enddate {
    field = end
    strftime = %Y%m%dT%H%M00
    dataWrap = <meta itemprop="endDate" content="|">
  }
  starttime.dataWrap =  |
  endtime.dataWrap = -| Uhr
  # The location of the event, could be much more extended by tt_address data like geo coordinates, etc.
  location.dataWrap = <div class="cal_loc" itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place">%%%LOCATION%%%:&nbsp;<span itemprop="name" class="location">|</span></div>
  # only hCalendar
  category_link.dataWrap = <div class="cal_cat">%%%CATEGORY%%%:&nbsp;<span class="category">|</span></div>
  # should be class 'description', but need to assign 'summary' to the title because summary is required by hCalendar
  description.dataWrap = <div class="summary">|</div>
  # MICROFORMAT_START does exist, also add MICROFORMAT_END
  microformat_end = TEXT
  microformat_end {
    field = end
    strftime = %Y%m%dT%H%M00
  }
}

In the event_model.tmpl I add a little bit:
<!--###TEMPLATE PHPICALENDAR EVENT### begin -->
<!--phpicalendar_event.tmpl-->
<div class="vevent" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
###TITLE###
###IMAGE###
###CATEGORY LINK###
###MICROFORMAT ENDDATE###
<time datetime="###MICROFORMAT START###" itemprop="startDate" class="dtstart">###STARTDATE###<;/time>###ENDDATE######STARTTIME######ENDTIME###
###LOCATION###
###DESCRIPTION###
</div>
<!--/phpicalendar_event.tmpl-->
<!--###TEMPLATE PHPICALENDAR EVENT### end -->

Just found this extension and really need to test it further. Sounds interesting.

rtp_imgquery by rtp-ch on Github

Responsive and fluid image techniques for TYPO3. Contribute to rtp_imgquery development by creating an account on GitHub.

14.9. - 21.9.2013, Palma de Mallorca

T3SAIL: Home on T3sail

T3SAIL is the TYPO3 Community Sailing Event. Every year community members & friends & users & developers of TYPO3 go for the seven seas.
Sailing is a great way to relax to slow down and to meet up, socialize and network.

TYPO3 6.0 Release Notes on Typo3

TYPO3 is a free, feature-rich Enterprise class Open Source Web CMS based on PHP with a vast international community of developers and supporters. typo3.org is the official resource for TYPO3 and offers tutorials, downloads, an extension repository and information about the TYPO3 community like mailing lists, blog, events

FAL is there! Really looking forward to use TYPO3 CMS 6.0.

Release of TYPO3 version 6.0 RC1 on Typo3

TYPO3 is a free, feature-rich Enterprise class Open Source Web CMS based on PHP with a vast international community of developers and supporters. typo3.org is the official resource for TYPO3 and offers tutorials, downloads, an extension repository and information about the TYPO3 community like mailing lists, blog, events

Time to update your TYPO3 CMS Core.

Several Vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core on Typo3

It has been discovered that TYPO3 Core is vulnerable to SQL Injection, Information Disclosure and Cross-Site Scripting

Kurzer netter Überblick wie man ein Flow-Paket erstellt um Neos zu erweitern.

TYPO3 Neos erweitern (1): Eigene Plugins on Mittwald

Interessantes und Neues aus der Welt der CMS, des Webhostings, des E-Commerce und dem WWW. Die gute Erweiterbarkeit war stets eines der großen “Verkaufsargumente” für das TYPO3 CMS. Ein Blick in das TYPO3 Extension Repository gibt dieser Behauptung Recht, tummeln sich hier doch mehrere tausend quelloffene TYPO3-Erweiterungen. TYPO3 Neos steht...

Changed the profile picture to the new TYPO3 logo that came with the new branding. I will miss the green in the logo.

They postponed the next major TYPO3 CMS release by 4weeks. The new release dates will be:
Release of TYPO3 CMS 6.0RC1: November, 6th
Release of TYPO3 CMS 6.0 final: November, 27th

New Release Schedule for TYPO3 CMS 6.0 on Typo3

The release of TYPO3 6.0 has been postponed for 4 weeks

TYPO3 Neos 1.0 alpha1 relased today. #t3con12de @TYPO3

Home - TYPO3 Neos on Typo3

TYPO3 Neos is the next-generation content management system of the TYPO3 community. Powered by TYPO3 Neos Alpha 1 & TYPO3 Flow 2.0...

I think I am in love with TYPO3 Flow. There will be some very interesting anouncements tomorrow! #t3con12de @TYPO3

Changing names again in the TYPO3 community:
#TYPO3 => TYPO3 CMS 
#FLOW3 => TYPO3 Flow 
#Fluid => TYPO3 Fluid

Let's see if they will reveal the final name for Phoenix at T3CON12DE this week.

Now it is only missing to brand TYPO3 as the community as #KDE did it some time back.  

A Brand New Way on Typo3

TYPO3 is a free, feature-rich Enterprise class Open Source Web CMS based on PHP with a vast international community of developers and supporters. typo3.org is the official resource for TYPO3 and offers tutorials, downloads, an extension repository and information about the TYPO3 community like mailing lists, blog, events

Am kommenden Donnerstag trifft sich die Bonner TYPO3 Usergroup nach langer Sommerpause wieder. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.
Do. 20.09.2012, 19Uhr, Café Spitz in Bonn

Should install this beta and start playing with all the changes. Sounds very interesting. Also looking forward to #t3con12de to hear and see much more about it and also about #Flow3 1.1.

Release of TYPO3 version 6.0 beta1 on Typo3

The TYPO3 Community has been buzzing with activity the last few weeks, peaking the last 7 days. One reason for this rush in activity is the switch in the TYPO3 Core to support and use PHP 5.3 namespaces like FLOW3. This was an important reason the original release date for the first beta of TYPO3 6.0 was postponed about two weeks.

There is finally some news about the certification program and how it will change with the new version-numbering scheme of TYPO3.

Certificates will be no longer tied to TYPO3 version number, but be valid for 36 months. I think that is a reasonable step for the future. And all previously issued certificates will continue to be valid, for all versions of TYPO3 in the 4.x branch as before.

New Rules for TYPO3 Certification Validity on Typo3

TYPO3 Integrator Certificates have a new validity time period due to the versioning change within the TYPO3 project.

Some interesting talks at the first T3CON in Asia. Just a bit surprised that there will be only one FLOW3 talk. I won't make it to #t3con12asia, but I hope I can attend #t3con12de this year again.

Saturday - Sessions - T3CON12 Asia

Security updates for TYPO3 core are available.

Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in TYPO3 Core on Typo3

It has been discovered that TYPO3 Core is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting.
Component Type: TYPO3 Core
Affected Versions: 4.5.0 up to 4.5.16, 4.6.0 up to 4.6.9, 4.7.0 up to 4.7.1 and development releases of the 6.0 branch.
...

The TYPO3 Certification Team is looking for help to introduce a new certification program Certified TYPO3 Developer. 

Help TYPO3 certification take the next step on Typo3

The TYPO3 Certification Team is taking exams for at least 4 years now and is ready to take a next step, introducing the 'Certified TYPO3 Developer'. The team needs you to make it come true. ...

Really helpfull overview about which feature was added in which #Extbase and #Fluid version.

Extbase and Fluid Feature Overview on Typo3

Extbase and Fluid are key technologies in the transition from TYPO3 4.x/6.x to Phoenix. As both are subject to rapid evolvement, the specific flavours incorporated into current TYPO3 versions (stable, old stable, LTS, deprecated) are quite different concerning the feature set they support. Helmut Hummel of naw.info posted some very useful tables on his blog after combing through the change logs

No new extensions in the TYPO3 Extension Repository since 5 days. Something broken?