4.2 Development

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Release Manager

Ingo Renner

Roadmap: Roadmap for 4.2

@core-Team New feature: In this editor you click at <S> and select "bug", type in the bug-id. ready. --Daniel

Features planned for TYPO3 4.2

These features are considered essential and/or have somebody who wants to work on it

• drop of PHP4 support, requires PHP 5.2

• Keep track of required fields nested on hidden tabs or IRRE sections (5899: Notify user where required elements are nested in IRRE or Tabs [closed])

Other feature brainstorming ideas

for admins and developers

• Olly: RFC: 5068: Integrate mod.web_list.deniedNewTables as opposite of allowedNewTables [closed]
• Dmitry: RFC: hook request in t3lib/t3lib_userauthgroup.php [DONE]
• Masi: 5158: Unsuccessful attempts of sending mail should be logged [closed][/s] [DONE]
• Benni: Fostering the Integration of "ter_update_check" extension [DONE]
• Benni: Fostering the Integration of "newloginbox" extension [DONE]
• Benni: Introduce an AJAX Interface for Backend communication [DONE]

for users/editors

• Provide new inputfield "directorypicker" in BE 4923: provide new inputfield "directorypicker" in BE [closed]
• 3894: open module on startup [closed] [DONE]
• 4064: Navigation title in tree view [closed]
• 5690: TCEforms: add inline editing of secondary options [closed]
• Benni: Refactoring Clickmenu [DONE]
• Benni: Some visual cleanups in the backend [DONE]
  • User Setup now uses tabs
  • Starting of using templates for the backend
  • DocHeader now fixed & unified (thanks to Patrick!)
• Dmitry: create many section elements at once [DONE]
• 5899: Notify user where required elements are nested in IRRE or Tabs [closed]

General Bugfixing

• 4470: pagebrowser shows wrong numbers [closed]
• 584: Changing language in user setup do not reload left frame (menu). [closed] [DONE]

Random Ideas

• 4662: New default behaviour for PAGE_TARGET [closed]
• Benni: Is there a way to clean up the typo3/ directory (maybe put js files in a /js/ directory etc.) ? [DONE]

IRRE

• Olly: 5242: Storage page for child records [closed]
• Olly: 6087: Localization of child records [closed]

Vision: Performance

• Can results of some queries be cached and reused?
• 2883: t3lib_div::trimExplode() is heavily called and can be optimized => nearly 1% improvement in fronEnd (both cached and uncached) [closed]

Vision: BE UI/Usability

• UI Improvements here
• 4886: Refresh left menu frame if extension with backend module was installed or removed [closed] [DONE]

Enhance Tools > User Admin

• Who-Is-Online for BE-Users [DONE]