--- title: TYPO3 4.5beta1 released url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/typo3-45beta1-released" description: Tonight the TYPO3 community released the first beta version of TYPO3 4.5. image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - "Developer & Technology" --- # TYPO3 4.5beta1 released - [Developer & Technology](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/developer-technology) TYPO3 4.5beta1 released ======================= 18 November 2010 Tonight the TYPO3 community released the first beta version of TYPO3 4.5. - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/bbf959d8e683550c90ae922aff9145d8.jpeg)[Ernesto Baschny & Steffen Kamper](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/ernesto-baschny-%26-steffen-kamper) Tonight the TYPO3 community released the first beta version of TYPO3 4.5. This is a developer "snapshot" and marks the start of our feature freeze phase. **Development progress** The release plan for 4.5, the schedule and the planned projects are detailed in the [project wiki on forge](http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki). For details about this particular release and the current progress, please read up on: **Downloads** We also have an introductionpackage for beta1, which allows testing the new features right away on a fresh installation. Experienced users can of course opt to upgrade an existing installation to the new 4.5beta1 version, but keeping in mind that this is still a snapshot of our development so far, and more changes and fixes will be included in further releases. You can download the Beta packages from: **MD5 checksums:** ``` 5d882b0ec89fcb461023e4c9a8a45fa3 dummy-4.5.0beta1.tar.gz0058ee77bee1e705c6dc4bee9dfdabb1 dummy-4.5.0beta1.zipc4615cc6484473db183f76448f828fdd typo3_src-4.5.0beta1.tar.gzcf8606be6cece40f010aaf7281021c14 typo3_src-4.5.0beta1.zipb35e28029797c435daf3f2945ee21dd7 typo3_src+dummy-4.5.0beta1.zipabf929b015881a81a53ae23033a6b2e3 introductionpackage-4.5.0beta1.tar.gzbd0b550a3b993730ed727075ba2c7c89 introductionpackage-4.5.0beta1.zip ``` ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/b5c88386e5b1d8fca79d0652427922d2.jpeg) About the Author [Ernesto Baschny & Steffen Kamper](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/ernesto-baschny-%26-steffen-kamper) [More posts by this author](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/ernesto-baschny-%26-steffen-kamper)