RELEASE NOTES FOR TYPO3 4.0 **************************** This page contains all important 4.0 specific information. Symlink Change =============== * Starting with TYPO3 4.0beta3, internal symlinks are not used anymore. This means, that there will be no symlinks inside the typo3_src/ folder. However, some extensions are not correctly adopted to the new scheme, therefore you may want to add the symlinks again to prevent any problems. * If you are upgrading from an older version, you will need to change the symlink index.php (pointing to tslib/index_ts.php in TYPO3_3.8.1 and before) to point to typo3_src/index.php in TYPO3 4.0: $ rm index.php $ ln -s typo3_src/index.php index.php (provided you have linked the "typo3_src" folder to your TYPO3 source folder, e.g. "typo3_src-4.0/") * Please keep in mind that there will be no symlinks anymore from the provided fonts nimbus.ttf and vera.ttf to arial.ttf and verdana.ttf. If you depend on these fonts, you need to upload the original fonts manually or create symlinks to these look-alike-fonts in t3lib/fonts/. local/global/system extensions =============================== * Again, some extensions have been changed to system extensions. This means, they are now located in typo3/sysext/. However, since typo3conf/ext/ and typo3/ext/ will take precedence, make sure that the extensions are not kept in these directories anymore. * If you want to remove extensions from typo3conf/ext/ or typo3/ext/ because they are now a system extension (rtehtmlarea for example) then don't forget to remove the temp_CACHED_* files in typo3conf/ manually. Localization/Language packs ============================ * The old csh_[lang-key] extensions are not used anymore. * Please go to the EM and use the new function "Translation handling". There you just select all languages you want to to carry within your installation. * For one-time initial update or later synchronisation you need to use the button "Update from repository". * On installing additional extensions later on the EM automatically takes care to import the appropriate language-packs as selected (only if available of course)! You only need to use the "Translation handling" if you want to update/check lables with the translation-server Important UTF-8 database settings change ========================================= * For using TYPO3 version 4.0, on a MySQL-4.1 (maybe other versions) with a UTF-8 based database, please refer to the details of http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=1262. New Skin ========= * TYPO3 Version 4.0 is shipped with a new default skin developed by Thomas Murphy and the design team. It is enabled by default. If you would like to switch back to the original skin you can just do so by uninstalling the extension "t3skin" in the Extension Manager. Quickstart and Testsite packages ================================= * Notice that the "Quickstart" and the "Testsite" packages are no longer provided. Instead, you can get them as a T3D file which can be imported using the Import/Export extension. See http://typo3.org/download/packages/ for details. In case of any problems you should visit this document: http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/TYPO3_4.0 It contains last minute information specifically about TYPO3 4.0 -- Michael Stucki