--- title: Podcast about TYPO3 8 url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/podcast-about-typo3-8" description: "The TYPO3 Podcast T3Bits released its episode \"T3B020: TYPO3 8\" starring Benni Mack." image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - "Showcase & Success" --- # Podcast about TYPO3 8 - [Showcase & Success](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/showcase-success) Podcast about TYPO3 8 ===================== 30 December 2016 The TYPO3 Podcast T3Bits released its episode "T3B020: TYPO3 8" starring Benni Mack. - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/bbf959d8e683550c90ae922aff9145d8.jpeg)[Sebastian Michaelsen](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/sebastian-michaelsen) Shortly before the [TYPO3 CMS  8.5 sprint release](https://typo3.org/news/article/typo3-v85-released/) Sebastian Michaelsen interviewed Benni Mack about the overall development of TYPO3 8. This interview was just published as a new episode of the [T3Bits](http://t3bits.de) audio podcast. Here are few notes and links that can guide you while listening to this episode: Benni is the leader of the core development team; The [roadmap](https://typo3.org/typo3-cms/roadmap/) gives you an overview over past and future TYPO3 sprint releases; Since TYPO3 7 overall goals are: performance, ease of updates, better backend UI and adapt to the changes in the PHP community (e.g. composer); TYPO3 8 switched to PHP 7 (a lot faster!); the old database layer was replaced by [Doctrine DBAL](http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/dbal.html) is now used to fully support MySQL, Microsoft SQL, OracleDB and PostgreSQL; [migration documentation](https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/CoreApiReference/Database/Migration/Index.html); being flexible about the database system enables you to use cloud hosting like Heroku (Postgres) or Azure (Microsoft SQL); [The Twelve-Factor App](https://12factor.net/); many cleanups like removing [Ext JS](https://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/#overview); new Form widget ([teaser on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9sTAOEcTI0)); htmlarea RTE was replaced by [ckeditor](http://ckeditor.com/); TYPO3 backend navigation and pagetree is now responsive; new Frontend Editing [crowdfunded](http://www.pixelant.net/crowdfunding/) and implemented by Pixelant; TYPO3 8 LTS will be released on April 4th 2017; The T3Bits podcast regularly features guests throughout the TYPO3 community in English or German episodes. Link to the episode:  Subscribe via iTunes:  ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/b5c88386e5b1d8fca79d0652427922d2.jpeg) About the Author [Sebastian Michaelsen](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/sebastian-michaelsen) [More posts by this author](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/sebastian-michaelsen)