New maintenance policy

By: François Suter

The TYPO3 Core Team is pleased to announce its new official maintenance policy for TYPO3 4.x.

Today the TYPO3 Core Team published its new maintenance policy on typo3.org (see link below). This translates into a nice new version matrix (thanks to Oliver Klee) that shows at a glance what is the status of all recent TYPO3 versions.

With this new information we hope that the lifecycle of each TYPO3 version will be clear to all members of the community. It should help planning upgrades for TYPO3 administrators.

This new policy also clarifies the work of both the Core Team and the Security Team, as we had - until recently - some fuzziness about which versions to keep patching and for what kind of bugs or security fixes.

We hope that you will appreciate this increased clarity.