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