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 BE,
  14           it is now possible to set accordingly different cookie domains using
  15           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['cookieDomain'] and $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['cookieDomain'].
  16
  17
  18 Backend
  19 =======
  20
  21         * The user can decide the type of each page created in the
  22           "Create multiple pages" Wizard. And the wizard can create more
  23           than 9 pages at once.
  24         * All system extensions from typo3/mod were moved to real system
  25           extensions. These modules are:
  26                 - Extension Manager
  27                 - List module
  28                 - Filelist module
  29                 - Info module
  30                 - Access module
  31                 - Workspace module
  32           List module and Extension Manager are set to required extensions,
  33           but it is possible to overwrite this setting in localconf.php eg
  34           if you want to deinstall the Extension Manger. Make sure you visit
  35           the Update Wizard!!!
  36         * The recycler was refactored and has now the same skin as the rest
  37           of the BE.
  38         * DB check -> page tree submodule was removed (module lowlevel).
  39         * RSA Auth now works also with special chars.
  40         * Clearing cache now is logged (#15305).
  41         * A hook now allows postprocessing of filelist and TCEforms files
  42           operations (#15192 and #15221). Typical use-case:
  43           - Allow editors to upload any picture (e.g., 10 Mpixels) as they
  44             don't know how to resize the pictures or do not have the software
  45           - Prevent fileadmin to be overflooded with huge pictures which
  46             will never be used in their original size
  47           - Automatically resize "huge" pictures after the upload
  48           Extension using it already:
  49           http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-image_autoresize
  50         * New TS config option to disable the "Show secondary options"
  51           checkbox (#13797). In User-TS, you can set:
  52           options.enableShowPalettes=0 to see this feature in action.
  53           Default is still "1" like it used to be.
  54
  55
  56 Frontend
  57 ========
  58
  59         * FE login now allows to show the logout form direct after login.
  60
  61
  62 Extbase / Fluid
  63 ===============
  64
  65         * All methods trying to find an object by uid now ignore the
  66           storagePid. This changes the behavior of argument mapping and the
  67           way extbase fetches 1:1 relations. Resolves #5631. You should not
  68           experience any negative side-effects of this change, i.e. if your
  69           extension worked before, it will definitely after this change.
  70           However, it makes the record handling more robust.
  71         * Performance improvements in
  72           TypoScript::convertTypoScriptArrayToPlainArray.
  73         * Numerous other bugfixes, see extbase/ChangeLog.txt
  74         * Fluid contains many new features you might want to start using.
  75           There are some changes that require special attention in case you
  76           created custom condition ViewHelpers or if you call renderSection()
  77           and renderWithLayout() from Tx_Fluid_View_TemplateView.
  78         * Check out typo3/sysext/fluid/ChangeLog.txt for more details!
  79
  80
  81 Compatibility
  82 =============
  83
  84         * See typo3/sysext/fluid/ChangeLog.txt for some breaking changes in
  85           Fluid.
  86         * The API for registering additional cache frontends or backends has changed.
  87           As of TYPO3 4.5 only the classname needs to be specified in favor of both
  88           path to the php file and the classname. Instead the class needs to be
  89           registered for autoloading. See #15586 for details.
  90           Example:
  91           New:
  92           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheFrontends']['myext']='tx_myext_cache';
  93           Old:
  94           $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheFrontends']['myext']='/path/tx_myext_cache.php:tx_myext_cache';
  95
  96
  97 Development
  98 ===========
  99
 100         * There is a new setting that shows all SQL queries in debug
 101           (#15425): $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['sqlDebug'] = 2;
 102         * Contrib libraries can be replaced now via hook (#15218). This
 103           allows to test with updates of these libraries. Demo extensions
 104           can be found here:
 105                 http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/files
 106         * Catch all ExtDirect Exceptions and show them in the DebugConsole.
 107           It now also allows you to call debug() (#15513).
 108
 109
 110 TypoScript
 111 ==========
 112
 113         * stdWrap now has a new feature: .numberFormat (#13815)
 114         lib.myPrice = TEXT
 115         lib.myPrice {
 116                 value = 0.8
 117                 numberFormat {
 118                         decimals = 2
 119                         dec_point = ,
 120                 }
 121                 noTrimWrap = || $|
 122         }
 123         # Will result in "0,80 $"
 124
 125         * GIFBUILDER has a new feature: ELLIPSE (#2049). Example:
 126         file  =  GIFBUILDER
 127         file  {
 128                 XY  =  200,200
 129                 format  =  jpg
 130                 quality  =  100
 131                 10  =  ELLIPSE
 132                 10.dimensions  =  100,100,50,50
 133                 10.color  =  red
 134         }
 135
 136
 137 Database API / DBAL
 138 ===================
 139
 140         * Prepared queries are now part of the TYPO3 database API (#15457).
 141           The API is mostly based on PDO's method naming and currently
 142           supports SELECT queries. TYPO3 will progressively use this new
 143           database API which is cleaner and quicker when using DBAL.
 144           Extension authors are encouraged to use it in their own
 145           extensions.
 146         * DBAL now supports "FIND_IN_SET()" (#14818) function and maps it
 147           correct functions in case usage under AdoDB. Using FIND_IN_SET in
 148           listQuery() will provide performance improvements in all areas, as
 149           this is used in several places (backend and frontend, for example
 150           for checking the group list permissions).
 151
 152
 153 Workspaces
 154 ==========
 155
 156         * There is a new Scheduler task for the automatic publication of
 157           workspaces (#14994).  If a publication date has been set for a
 158           given workspace, it will be published the next time the Scheduler
 159           task runs. Note that automatic "un-publication" still does not
 160           work. Replaces non-working CLI script
 161           "typo3/mod/user/ws/cli/ws_cli.phpsh".
 162
 163
 164 Backend skin
 165 ============
 166
 167         * sprites.css now contains the autogenerated sprites.
 168
 169
 170 Speed improvements
 171 ==================
 172
 173         * Added "compress data" options to DbBackend of the Caching
 174           framework (#15141). Enable it like this:
 175         $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['cache_pages'] =
 176         array(
 177                 'frontend' => 't3lib_cache_frontend_StringFrontend',
 178                 'backend' => 't3lib_cache_backend_DbBackend',
 179                 'options' => array(
 180                         'cacheTable' => 'cachingframework_cache_pages',
 181                         'tagsTable' => 'cachingframework_cache_pages_tags',
 182                         'compression' => TRUE,
 183                 ),
 184         );
 185         * Some often used functions of t3lib_div were speed improved.