--- title: TYPO3 4.7 Alpha2 released url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/typo3-47-alpha2-released" image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - "Developer & Technology" --- # TYPO3 4.7 Alpha2 released - [Developer & Technology](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/developer-technology) TYPO3 4.7 Alpha2 released ========================= 20 December 2011 - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/8e202750104c99d293acb809d0538e56.jpeg)[Steffen Ritter](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/steffen-ritter) ### Today, the TYPO3 community released the second Alpha version of TYPO3 4.7. This marks another milestone of our journey to the next major release of our CMS: TYPO3 4.7 standards and accessibility. Today, the TYPO3 community released the second Alpha version of TYPO3 4.7. This marks another milestone of our journey to the next major release of our CMS: TYPO3 4.7 standards and accessibility. The Release of 4.7.0 will be ready by 24th April 2012. This Alpha version is a "developer snapshot" to show the progress so far. **What happened so far?** Since the last Alpha Release many things changed. The focus of this release is the Backend migration to ExtJS 4. Most parts are already migrated and ready to test. Other parts are still missing and loaded via ExtJS3 compatibility layer. We highly encourage you to test the Backend and give feedback on that. As an Alpha version is only a developement snapshot, please be aware that there are still bugs we will be working on. To do this properly we ask you to report every issue you encounter. In addition to the ExtJS 4 transition some more new stuff has been included. For example we upgraded the SwiftMailer API as well as there are some new possibilities within TypoScript. As already announced in our kick-off article indexed\_search now ships with an accessible search plugin based on Extbase and Fluid. Following the current transitions of laws the Frontend-logging has been extended by the possibility to anonymize the IP address of visitors. Beyond these many bug fixes and smaller tasks have been introduced. For details about this particular release and the current progress, please read up on: [http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v47-projects/wiki/TYPO3\_47\_alpha2](http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v47-projects/wiki/TYPO3_47_alpha1) The release plan for 4.7, the schedule and the planned projects are detailed in the [project wiki on forge](http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v47-projects/wiki). **Downloads** For the second Alpha an introduction package was built, which allows testing the new features right away on a fresh installation. In addition the new **government package** is available as well as Alpha2 package (currently only in german). Experienced users can of course opt to upgrade an existing installation to the new 4.7 Alpha2 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 Alpha packages from: MD5 checksums: ``` 3d6aedc8d94408a89596bfaa81d76cd9 blankpackage-4.7.0alpha2.tar.gz0d1642b9beb5bee4bb1d0737fa80fde3 blankpackage-4.7.0alpha2.zipd5622f18e15e83453cacb42d58ffd871 dummy-4.7.0alpha2.tar.gz2a855532d74c5d05bba6c71349c61749 dummy-4.7.0alpha2.zipc018b0b4b81f52989d7b8cb96355fe25 governmentpackage-4.7.0alpha2.tar.gzc97f9814517deae26cace7c29ce0c271 governmentpackage-4.7.0alpha2.zipf1115b9965c7466dec01c7563714ddd7 introductionpackage-4.7.0alpha2.tar.gz1e65e33559ef441b29a1ea412b3ca0c5 introductionpackage-4.7.0alpha2.zipc1ef705c7bbd5fe18700f88ec4ff1a01 typo3_src+dummy-4.7.0alpha2.zipad66e14be18bcc53404550e1cb5ba02b typo3_src-4.7.0alpha2.tar.gzdb355a127c40ad2e704538e96715f447 typo3_src-4.7.0alpha2.zip ``` ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/9968a07817e9581cf64bc68eb7883c31.jpeg) About the Author [Steffen Ritter](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/steffen-ritter) [More posts by this author](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/steffen-ritter)