NEWS.txt

   1 ************************************************************************
   2 CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS between TYPO3 4.4 and 4.5
   3 (for technical details see ChangeLog)
   4 ************************************************************************
   5
   6 General
   7 =======
   8
   9         * 4.5 will be the first official TYPO3 release with LTS (long term support)
  10         * A Sprite Generator was added. This allows you to create your own
  11           sprite files, also core can generate the files if some new icons
  12           were added (#15079).
  13         * When TYPO3 runs with two different domain names for the FE and the
  14           BE, it is now possible to set accordingly different cookie domains
  15           using $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['cookieDomain'] and
  16           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['cookieDomain'].
  17         * Pages of type "Shortcut" can now also link to the parent page, not
  18           only to the first or a random subpage.
  19         * The media element now has a core wizard for rewriting URLs. This
  20           allows the user to copy the URL from browser (eg a youtube URL like
  21           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkA9qw80xO0) and use
  22           it in the media element as URL. Currently supported platforms:
  23           youtube, dailymotion, sevenload, vimeo, clipfish, google,
  24           metacafe, myvideo, liveleak and veoh.
  25
  26
  27
  28 Backend
  29 =======
  30
  31         * The frameset was removed. This makes the Backend a lot faster.
  32           Now the navigation tree also can be resized. The new backend works
  33           using the ExtJS viewport, providing an easy and unified interface
  34           to manipulate the content of the different panels.
  35         * The user can decide the type of each page created in the
  36           "Create multiple pages" Wizard. And the wizard can create more
  37           than 9 pages at once.
  38         * All system extensions from typo3/mod were moved to real system
  39           extensions. These modules are:
  40                 - Extension Manager
  41                 - List module
  42                 - Filelist module
  43                 - Info module
  44                 - Access module
  45                 - Workspace module
  46           List module and Extension Manager are set to required extensions,
  47           but it is possible to overwrite this setting in localconf.php eg
  48           if you want to deinstall the Extension Manger. Make sure you visit
  49           the Update Wizard!!!
  50         * The recycler was refactored and has now the same skin as the rest
  51           of the BE.
  52         * DB check -> page tree submodule was removed (module lowlevel).
  53         * RSA Auth now works also with special chars.
  54         * Clearing cache now is logged (#15305).
  55         * A hook now allows postprocessing of filelist and TCEforms files
  56           operations (#15192 and #15221). Typical use-case:
  57           - Allow editors to upload any picture (e.g., 10 Mpixels) as they
  58             don't know how to resize the pictures or do not have the software
  59           - Prevent fileadmin to be overflooded with huge pictures which
  60             will never be used in their original size
  61           - Automatically resize "huge" pictures after the upload
  62           Extension using it already:
  63           http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-image_autoresize
  64         * New TS config option to disable the "Show secondary options"
  65           checkbox (#13797). In User-TS, you can set:
  66           options.enableShowPalettes=0 to see this feature in action.
  67           Default is still "1" like it used to be.
  68
  69
  70 Frontend
  71 ========
  72
  73         * FE login now allows to show the logout form direct after login.
  74
  75
  76 Extbase / Fluid
  77 ===============
  78
  79         * Fixed Extbase Caching Bug.
  80         * All methods trying to find an object by uid now ignore the
  81           storagePid. This changes the behavior of argument mapping and the
  82           way extbase fetches 1:1 relations. Resolves #5631. You should not
  83           experience any negative side-effects of this change, i.e. if your
  84           extension worked before, it will definitely after this change.
  85           However, it makes the record handling more robust.
  86         * Performance improvements in
  87           TypoScript::convertTypoScriptArrayToPlainArray.
  88         * Fluid contains many new features you might want to start using.
  89           There are some changes that require special attention in case you
  90           created custom condition ViewHelpers or if you call renderSection()
  91           and renderWithLayout() from Tx_Fluid_View_TemplateView.
  92         * Check out these ChangeLogs for more details:
  93           - typo3/sysext/extbase/ChangeLog.txt
  94           - typo3/sysext/fluid/ChangeLog.txt
  95
  96
  97 Compatibility
  98 =============
  99
 100         * See typo3/sysext/fluid/ChangeLog.txt for some breaking changes in
 101           Fluid.
 102         * See typo3/sysext/extbase/ChangeLog.txt for a fix that might break
 103           certain setups (caching bug fixed, might break extbase extensions
 104           that setup their own TS configuration manually)
 105         * The API for registering additional cache frontends or backends has changed.
 106           As of TYPO3 4.5 only the classname needs to be specified in favor of both
 107           path to the php file and the classname. Instead the class needs to be
 108           registered for autoloading. See #15586 for details.
 109           Example:
 110           New:
 111           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheFrontends']['myext']='tx_myext_cache';
 112           Old:
 113           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheFrontends']['myext']='/path/tx_myext_cache.php:tx_myext_cache';
 114
 115
 116 Development
 117 ===========
 118
 119         * There is a new setting that shows all SQL queries in debug
 120           (#15425): $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['sqlDebug'] = 2;
 121         * Contrib libraries can be replaced now via hook (#15218). This
 122           allows to test with updates of these libraries. Demo extensions
 123           can be found here:
 124                 http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/files
 125         * Catch all ExtDirect Exceptions and show them in the DebugConsole.
 126           It now also allows you to call debug() (#15513).
 127         * DebugConsole now also catch console-calls from Javascript if no
 128           console is available. This allows eg debug prints in browsers
 129           having no console like the IE
 130         * ExtDirect is available in the frontend now (#15754):
 131           http://wiki.typo3.org/ExtDirect
 132
 133 TypoScript
 134 ==========
 135
 136         * stdWrap now has a new feature: .numberFormat (#13815)
 137         lib.myPrice = TEXT
 138         lib.myPrice {
 139                 value = 0.8
 140                 numberFormat {
 141                         decimals = 2
 142                         dec_point = ,
 143                 }
 144                 noTrimWrap = || $|
 145         }
 146         # Will result in "0,80 $"
 147
 148         * GIFBUILDER has a new feature: ELLIPSE (#2049). Example:
 149         file  =  GIFBUILDER
 150         file  {
 151                 XY  =  200,200
 152                 format  =  jpg
 153                 quality  =  100
 154                 10  =  ELLIPSE
 155                 10.dimensions  =  100,100,50,50
 156                 10.color  =  red
 157         }
 158
 159
 160 Database API / DBAL
 161 ===================
 162
 163         * Prepared queries are now part of the TYPO3 database API (#15457).
 164           The API is mostly based on PDO's method naming and currently
 165           supports SELECT queries. TYPO3 will progressively use this new
 166           database API which is cleaner and quicker when using DBAL.
 167           Extension authors are encouraged to use it in their own
 168           extensions.
 169         * Output of SQL parser when dealing with prepared queries is cached
 170           for enhanced performances. To activate this caching if you don't have
 171           a memcached server:
 172           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['useCachingFramework'] = 1;
 173           In order to have a much higher cache hit ratio, you should use one
 174           or more memcached servers. To activate this enhanced caching, use:
 175           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['useCachingFramework'] = 1;
 176           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['dbal'] = array(
 177                 'backend' => 't3lib_cache_backend_MemcachedBackend',
 178                 'options' => array(
 179                         'servers' => array('localhost:11211', 'otherhost:11211'),
 180                 )
 181           );
 182         * DBAL now supports "FIND_IN_SET()" (#14818) function and maps it
 183           correct functions in case usage under AdoDB. Using FIND_IN_SET in
 184           listQuery() will provide performance improvements in all areas, as
 185           this is used in several places (backend and frontend, for example
 186           for checking the group list permissions).
 187
 188
 189 Workspaces
 190 ==========
 191
 192         * There is a new Scheduler task for the automatic publication of
 193           workspaces (#14994).  If a publication date has been set for a
 194           given workspace, it will be published the next time the Scheduler
 195           task runs. Note that automatic "un-publication" still does not
 196           work. Replaces non-working CLI script
 197           "typo3/mod/user/ws/cli/ws_cli.phpsh".
 198
 199
 200 Backend skin
 201 ============
 202
 203         * sprites.css now contains the autogenerated sprites.
 204
 205
 206 Speed improvements
 207 ==================
 208
 209         * Added "compress data" options to DbBackend of the Caching
 210           framework (#15141). Enable it like this:
 211         $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['cache_pages'] =
 212         array(
 213                 'frontend' => 't3lib_cache_frontend_VariableFrontend',
 214                 'backend' => 't3lib_cache_backend_DbBackend',
 215                 'options' => array(
 216                         'cacheTable' => 'cachingframework_cache_pages',
 217                         'tagsTable' => 'cachingframework_cache_pages_tags',
 218                         'compression' => TRUE,
 219                 ),
 220         );
 221         * Some often used functions of t3lib_div were speed improved.