TYPO3 News & Events Hub
What’s New & What’s Coming
TYPO3 help in IRC
Few people are aware of the TYPO3 IRC channel on freenode.net. Channel #typo3 is frequented by some very knowledgeable TYPO3 users and developers, and is an excellent resource for the TYPO3 community.
Read moreTER2 - Save your private extensions!
With the release of TYPO3 4.0 coming nearer, the TYPO3.org team now starts preparing the deployment of the new Extension Repository. The TER2 offers many new features and will improve speed and stability a lot. Because the extensions are now stored...
Extension Award 2005 Nominations
The Extension Coordination Team (ECT) is proud to present the list of nominations for the Extension Award 2005.
Testing and Tuning TYPO3 Performance
A new article describing TYPO3 performance tuning and testing is now available in the articles section of typo3.org.
TYPO3 4.0 Beta 1
TYPO3 4.0 marks the fourth major release of TYPO3. It enhances and extends functionality and usability for TYPO3 users and developers. This beta release will allow us to spot bugs in the initial stages, and fix them before they have a chance to...
Testing and tuning TYPO3 performance
TYPO3 has a reputation of being a resource hog, and performance on popular websites (such as typo3.org) has often been somewhat flaky in the past. This article addresses some recommendations on performance tuning as well as some testing scenarios...
First beta of TemplaVoilà 1.0
Robert Lemke has released the first BETA of TemplaVoilà 1.0. The source is available on the typo3xdev CVS on SourceForge; all users and developers are invited to test the new version. All hints, bugs, and suggestions should be posted on the...
Development ChangeLog - reference table
Kasper Skårhøj, head developer of TYPO3, has announced a new feature for TYPO3 4.0: database indexing. Databases allow you to specify indexes for every column of a table, which in turn can dramatically increase query speed. The indexes are...
TYPO3 SWOT Analysis - Round two
TYPO3 SWOT Analysis: Round 1 was a success, and the study is moving to round 2: voting for the most relevant SWOT opinions.
TYPO3 SWOT Analysis
The TYPO3 SWOT Analysis is designed to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) to TYPO3. The results can help to improve and further distribute TYPO3.
HTMLArea 1.0.0
Stanislas Roland has recently released version 1.0.0 of his Rich Text Editor extension Originally based on HTMLarea, Stanislas has added several new features and improvements. While TYPO3's default RTE only works with Intern
T3N Magazine 02/2005
The latest issue of the German-language T3N Magazine (02/2005) can now be ordered. The reader can expect a wide spectrum of interesting articles about TYPO3 and other open source technologies.
Announcing the News Team
Today, the official News Team for TYPO3 has begun work on their project. Their goal is to collect and provide relevant, up-to-date news about TYPO3. The last few days have seen a restructuring of news.typo3.org,
TYPO3 3.8.1 released
TYPO3 version 3.8.1 is ready for download. This is a maintenance release of the 3.8 branch and fixes a few security related issues. For further information about the changes 3.8.1 please also check out the article below.
Security Bulletins: Important Security Enhancements in TYPO3 3.8.1
Multiple TYPO3 Security Bulletins have been issued, all of which are addressed by the release of TYPO3 3.8.1.
TYPO3 Security Bulletin
Situations are imaginable where sensitive information gets stored in the fileadmin/_temp_/ directory. If misconfigured in your web server, this directory can be browsable and therefore expose that information.
TYPO3 Security Bulletin
Under special circumstances, setting config.baseURL (see typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_tsref/quot_CONFIG_quot/ ) to a numeric value ("1") could be used to spoof a malicious baseURL into your TYPO3 cache. It has now been decided...
TYPO3 Security Bulletin
For convenience, the TYPO3 Install Tool provides a button sets the "encryptionKey" to a random value. It has been observed that only parts of the generated value are actually random. The overall key is therefore unique and -as of today- considered...
TYPO3 Security Bulletin
In the past, a "Shift Reload" from the browser (AKA a GET request with the "no-cache" pragma set) cleared the TYPO3 cache of the requested page. This may be considered a potential target for Denial of Service attacks.
TYPO3 Security Bulletin
Various security issues have been reported for PhpMyAdmin (see www.securityfocus.com/bid/15196 for details.)