Hello,

the next beta, so called number 3, is available on sourceforge. Because I'm not at home I can't say anything about the changelog. This and the doxygen documentation will follow this evening.

Ingmar Schlecht made the official announcement in the dev list. Here are the list of new features:

• - Extension manager for the new Extension Repository (TER2)
  Please especially test that up- and downloading of extensions works.
• - No symlinks needed anymore.
  If you want, you can still keep them (e.g. if you are using old extensions that depend on e.g. t3lib/ to exist in typo3/t3lib/ as well) but the TYPO3 Core doesn't depend on them anymore. Of course you can still use symlinks to change between different typo3_src-x.x.x folders.
• - No need for "showpic.php" anymore.
  Click-enlarge links now look like "index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&..." The technique behind this feature may become very useful for AJAX and webservice scripts, too.
• - Versioning works with older MySQL versions as well now
  
• - Form eval API
  It's now possible to supply own JavaScript and PHP form evaluations to input fields defined in the TCA (thanks to Thomas Hempel)
• - GIFBUILDER can create truecolor images now
  
• - ss_dragdrop extension has been integrated into the core.
  That means drag and drop works for pages in the pagetree. When you drop a page inside of another page, a context menu will pop up asking your whether to copy, move or create a shortcut at that position. (Thanks to Stephane Schitter)

Greets,

Thomas