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“The core team is proud to announce the first Release Candidate of Typo3 4.1. The 4.1 development is now feature frozen so only bugfixes will be added.”

A few notable changes between 4.1 beta 3 and RC1 are:

* PHP version requirement raised to PHP 4.3.0
* Some database performance improvements (by Dmitry Dulepov)
* Moved prototype.js and scriptaculous to typo3/contrib/ and upgraded them to their latest versions (by Oliver Hader)
* Lots of important bugfixes related to M:M relation handling, PHP 5.2.0 compatibility, IRRE, indexed_search and the AJAX page tree.

The core team expects that Typo3 4.1 final can be released before the end of February. For additional information, please read the release announcement.