Kept Promises

Before we started working on TYPO3 v10 more than 1.5 years ago, we set two important goals:

Improve site setup and template handling.

Innovate via initiatives—organized in small development groups.

We improved site setup and template handling to enhance the site-creation experience for TYPO3 integrators and agencies. With the “Site Management” backend module, integrators will make configurations for one or more websites at a central point in the TYPO3 system. Setting up these “sites” is now mandatory in v10 LTS and TYPO3 generates a basic configuration automatically. Now, integrators can set up a TYPO3 instance from scratch in seconds.

We’ve innovated through strategic initiatives to change the development of TYPO3 itself. TYPO3 is open-source and the core team is amazed to see so many high-quality contributions by developers around the globe. As Benni Mack pointed out in an article in 2019, “Initiatives are the place where new concepts are evaluated, discussed and developed outside of the fixed roadmap for the TYPO3 core.”

Initiatives are independent and community-driven, and a number of great initiatives made it into the core of TYPO3 v10. One of the most noticeable visual changes came out of an initiative: the new Dashboard will greet users when they log into the backend.