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The TYPO3 Community released the newest version of their Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.6 million times – making it one of the world’s leading Enterprise Open Source projects.

The latest TYPO3 version 4.4 makes TYPO3 easier than ever – especially for newbies. A TYPO3 website is now up and running in 5 minutes after it has been downloaded and with the included template it is up and running.

The most important innovations at a glance:

  • Introduction Package
  • Udated Look & Feel
  • Easier Installation
  • Faster Rich Text Editor
  • New Taskcenter

TYPO3 version 4.4 innovations in detail:

Introduction Package, to start immediately

The new introduction package offers TYPO3 newbies a configurable template immediately after installation. Using simple examples it demonstrates TYPO3 concepts and possibilities. At the same time this template can of course be used for the first own website, since e.g. the colour-scheme of the template can easily be changed without TYPO3 expert knowledge.

Updated Look & Feel in the TYPO3 Backend

The TYPO3 Backend now has a new visual appearance with improved look & feel. Additionally the entire backend CSS has been revised which also improves the overall backend loading speed. Custom backend skins can now be created much easier thanks to this restructuring.

TYPO3 Backend

Easier 3-Step Installation

Installing TYPO3 using the new installation script is a lot easier than before. In three easy steps TYPO3 is up and running and users can even change to their preferred database system in the process. Clever defaults keep the user from having to make too many decisions and therefore simplifies getting started with TYPO3.

Installer

Faster Rich Text Editor

The built-in editor „HTMLarea“ is now completely based on ExtJS, the JavaScript framework that TYPO3 includes since version 4.3. It is now the first and only feature-complete Open Source Rich Text Editor (RTE) that is based entirely on ExtJS, freely available for the public and now included out-of-the-box in TYPO3 version 4.4.

For the TYPO3 Backend editor this means improved loading speed of the text editor without having to give up on any of its features.

RTE

New Task Center

The new TYPO3 Task Center allows for the creation and management of tasks for all TYPO3 backend users. Additionally editors can send notes to each other and instantly find the documents they edited recently. With its completely revised interface the new Task Center fits seamlessly into the new look & feel of TYPO3 version 4.4.

Get TYPO3 version 4.4 now!

TYPO3 version 4.4 can be downloaded directly from http://www.typo3.org/download/. Technical documentation and the detailed release notes can be found at http://typo3.org/download/release-notes/...

TYPO3 - The Enterprise CMS

TYPO3 is an Open Source Enterprise Web Content Management System released under the GPL. It currently runs more than 500,000 websites worldwide. The application has been translated into 42 languages and is being actively developed by a community of over 100,000 developers in over 60 countries. Some of its end users include  Lufthansa, Daimler, Cisco Systems, General Electric, the United Nations and Harvard University, as well as numerous other companies, universities, government agencies and non-profit organizations.

For additional information about TYPO3, please visit http://www.typo3.com and http://www.typo3.org.

Source: TYPO3 Association Press Office

Author: Søren Schaffstein, Press Officer of the TYPO3 Association

TYPO3 Newsfeeds: http://news.typo3.org

TYPO3 Association Website: http://association.typo3.org

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Comments

Pretty impressive

Anonymous's picture

This is pretty cool. Until now it has been too difficult evaluate TYPO3. I wonder if this release will take TYPO3 to the next level.

TYPO3

Natalia Leggings's picture

Been using TYPO3 for a while. I must say that it keeps getting better and better!