************************************************************************ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS between TYPO3 4.0 and 4.1 (for technical details see ChangeLog) ************************************************************************ Backend ================== * Inline Relational Record Editing (IRRE) -> It's now possible to create and edit child records of a record as subforms inside of the form view in the backend -> Therefore, the new TCA field type "inline" has been introduced -> See http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Inline_Relational_Record_Editing for details * Bidirectional MM relations: It's now possible to configure MM relations from both sides of the relation. -> E.g. an employment relation could now be edited from both the "person" as well as the "company" side. ("employers" of "persons" and "employees" of "companies") * BE who-is-online -> The Tools->Useradmin module now displays which BE users are currently online. * UTF-8 for filenames -> You need to set $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['UTF8filesystem'] to TRUE to enable this feature. Compatibility ============= * Changed the default value of $TYPO3_CONF_VARS[SYS][devIPmask] Speed improvements ================== * TODO Dmitry: explain cache_pagesection speedup * TODO Dmitry: explain speedup using .htaccess Installation/Upgrade ==================== * ... Database changes ================ * Changed many BLOB fields from int/varchar/whatever to tinyint(1) - this is the field type which is actually intended by MySQL for BLOBs DBAL ==== * ... Frontend features ================= * Autologin for Frontend users is now possible! -> Users can decide on their own whether they want to "Stay logged in" using a checkbox. The latest version of the "newloginbox" extension is required for that. -> Needs to be configured in the Install Tool ("All Configuration" -> "permalogin" and "lifetime") Backend skin ============ * ... Important bugfixes ================== * ...