--- title: "Release of TYPO3 4.4alpha2 - Development Snapshot #2" url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/release-of-typo3-44alpha2-development-snapshot-2" description: "Today, the TYPO3 community released the second alpha version of TYPO3 4.4. This is another snapshot of the current v4 development, and is considered a sneak preview of what is coming in June 2010. This is also the last snapshot before the feature freeze in early April 2010. After that, it's all about straightening out the package." image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - "Developer & Technology" --- # Release of TYPO3 4.4alpha2 - Development Snapshot #2 - [Developer & Technology](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/developer-technology) Release of TYPO3 4.4alpha2 - Development Snapshot #2 ==================================================== 16 March 2010 Today, the TYPO3 community released the second alpha version of TYPO3 4.4. This is another snapshot of the current v4 development, and is considered a sneak preview of what is coming in June 2010. This is also the last snapshot before the feature freeze in early April 2010. After that, it's all about straightening out the package. - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/860e9e538aa963a3600a2488dff48070.jpeg)[Benni Mack](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/benni-mack) We've included a bunch of small fixes, especially to our new ExtJS based Rich Text Editor htmlArea, big thanks to Stan Rolland. Also, a straightened out Extbase / Fluid combo is shipping with this alpha release. Enjoy and thanks to everyone who was helping writing patches! You can grab the packages here: MD5 checksums: ``` ef797bb6e55d9b0858e6c103bda7d2ca  dummy-4.4.0alpha2.tar.gz7d4188934ca677e54bb2dd74f0ef2c22  dummy-4.4.0alpha2.zip0add41309e94d6d0f19e2b5eb2ad8cd3  typo3_src-4.4.0alpha2.tar.gz5ee24e2b163ec79833f1bbe8ea59ae4e  typo3_src-4.4.0alpha2.zip09c912e096c38032fc7415b912a84ab6  typo3_src+dummy-4.4.0alpha2.zip ``` Download: **What's next?** The TCEforms refactoring project is going in the next phase, and the head developer Andreas Wolf needs all your support in development and testing, especially JavaScript guys and Flexform gurus. Please [contact him](mailto:andreas.wolf@ikt-werk.de) if you can spare your time, enthusiasm and knowledge. The TYPO3 Taskcenter is getting a major overhaul by Georg Ringer, and is now cleaner than ever. Currently the visual changes are checked up by the UI team, after that the changes will be in trunk in time for the feature freeze. Another module, the Extension Manager rewriting part is getting into shape. Steffen Kamper and Marcus Krause are finetuning and also adding the last fixes, stay tuned on the core list for these features to get in. The Skinning API is still in the review process, the templateable installer and the workspaces development are still discussed and the tasks are sorted out. Don't forget that the Feature freeze will be in three weeks, so if you have any features, please get them in the core list, and review the features of others! Give and receive, so community will work :) All further release dates "on the road" can be found on the wiki page of [forge.typo3.org](http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/typo3v4-core/Fourfour). Benjamin Mack Release Manager TYPO3 4.4 ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/d2f68d86720b93361f6910922465f559.jpeg) About the Author [Benni Mack](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/benni-mack) CTO at b13,Stuttgart, Germany [Website](https://b13.com/)[Twitter](https://twitter.com/bennimack)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminmack/) Being the CTO at b13 GmbH, Benni is the TYPO3 Core Project Lead and one of the driving forces behind the TYPO3 community in the last years. [More posts by this author](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/benni-mack)