************************************************************************ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS between TYPO3 4.2 and 4.3 (for technical details see ChangeLog) ************************************************************************ General ================== * ... Backend ================== * Extension Manager: You can now set a new option "excludeFromUpdates" in every every extensions' ext_emconf.php array. This way, it is a) not shown in the list of extensions to update and b) is shown a exclamation mark in order to prevent updates for this extension. This is very useful if you made local changes to an extension and don't want any admin to overwrite them. Compatibility ============= * ... Speed improvements ================== * ... Frontend ================== * The message log of the admin panel will report failures to set the locale Development ==================== * ... TypoScript changes ================== * ... Database changes ================ * ... DBAL ==== * ... Frontend features ================= * Frontend plugins now can convert themselves from USER to USER_INT on the fly. This is useful for plugins who can disallow caching using a TSConfig option (for example, tt_news). Earlier plugins had to use $GLOBALS['TSFE']->set_no_cache(), which caused huge performance problems. Now plugin simply need to call $this->cObj->convertToUserIntObject() and return immediately without generating any content. Objects can find their current execution mode by calling $this->cObj->getUserObjectType(). This function can return either tslib_cObj::OBJECTTYPE_USER (if object runs as USER) or tslib_cObj::OBJECTTYPE_USER_INT (if object is running as USER_INT). Here the code example: function main() { .... if (!$this->conf['allowCaching'] && $this->cObj->getUserObjectType() == tslib_cObj::OBJECTTYPE_USER) { $this->cObj->convertToUserIntObject(); return ''; } * Class tslib_eidtools is enhanced with new methods for eID/AJAX applications: public static function initLanguage($language = 'default'); Creates $GLOBALS['LANG'] for the given language public static function initTCA(); Loads 'ctrl' sections for TCA tables from all installed extensions public static function initExtensionTCA($extensionKey); Similar to initTCA() but loads the table only for the given extension Backend skin ============ * ... Important bugfixes ================== * ... Currently unsupported ===================== * Missing features concerning the disposal of Inline Relational Record Editing (IRRE) -> Workspaces and Versioning are currently not supported -> FlexForms using the TCA type 'inline' are currently not supported/tested -> Import/Export (sysext tx_impexp) might not work correctly in special cases