TYPO3 8.6.0

Release Notes

Version 8.6.0

This version is not supported anymore.

The TYPO3 CMS community supported from 2017-04-04 until 2020-03-31. Extended security & compatibility support (ELTS) expired on 2024-03-31.

Please consider updating to a newer version.

Release Notes for TYPO3 CMS 8.6.0

This document contains information about TYPO3 CMS 8.6.0 which was released on February 14th, 2017.

News

<https://typo3.org/news/article/typo3-v86-released/&gt;

Download

<https://typo3.org/download/&gt;

MD5 checksums

d146c4ef053577c4cf9e8261d8b5501e  typo3_src-8.6.0.tar.gz
f060695607f92d50f32440858e1f5aa2  typo3_src-8.6.0.zip

SHA256 checksums

bb766d646e2507af2093a866c058d0e9a341f87505fa0722f73b263112ed2fe5  typo3_src-8.6.0.tar.gz
289e1fc3f1068774308cdafb19eaacfcccab2bccf4a280fc213263264530adb5  typo3_src-8.6.0.zip

Upgrading

  1. Before you update any instance to 8.6, have a backup in place.
  2. Now download the new core and present it to your instance (by symlink or copied files)
  3. Use the install tool to run the upgrade wizards
  4. Use the install tool to clear each and every cache you can find, even opcode.
  5. When you encounter compatibility problems with your extensions, look for the git versions around in order to find one already upgraded.

The usual upgrading procedure applies as well.

Changes

Package Signatures

TYPO3 Release Packages (the downloadable tarballs and zip files) as well as Git tags are signed using PGP signatures during the automated release process. Besides that, MD5 and SHA2-256 hashes are being generated for these files. Find more details on verifying signatures and hashes in the infrastructure guide.

Download GPG signed release README.md file

Example of verifying integrity of tar.gz package of current release:

wget --content-disposition https://get.typo3.org/8.6.0/tar.gz
wget --content-disposition https://get.typo3.org/8.6.0/tar.gz.sig
gpg --verify typo3_src-8.6.0.tar.gz.sig typo3_src-8.6.0.tar.gz