TYPO3 v14: It’s Just the Beginning

TYPO3 v14 will bring us into the modern era

We’ve balanced the facts of your feedback (It’s fantastic! It needs improving!) with our staunch belief that we will get better. Open source is capable of keeping up with enterprise competitors while maintaining what’s great about our community and customizations—and version 14 aims to achieve exactly that balance.

This is just the beginning. We’ve taken TYPO3 down to its foundations to build an updated, stable Long Term Support (LTS) core that allows for rapid innovation, AI integrations, and developer-friendly tooling. It’s something new we can build a future upon, not just a patch on an outdated scaffold (even if that scaffold is well-worn and comfortable). 

The facts: they can prove anything

To ground decisions in real user insight, we turned to the community. The TYPO3 Marketing Team ran a Sales Enablement Survey. Our Product Strategy Group interviewed editors. And one thing’s clear: no one can agree on exactly what we need, or what the current state of TYPO3 actually is.

After receiving feedback like Let’s Start from Scratch! (a random TYPO3 developer, someplace sometime) and I like that TYPO3 works the same way as 20 years ago! (definitely not me), we concluded it would be difficult to keep our full community happy with whatever changes we make.

In open source—especially in a framework as flexible as TYPO3—it’s natural that people use the system in many different ways, so we can’t always meet every competing priority at once. But four clear themes emerged, all grounded in a sense that TYPO3 can be overly complex and uncomfortable to use. Here’s what came up:

1. Improved backend user experience
2. Development that puts APIs first
3. Built-in themes and ready-to-go frontend 
4. Easier integrations

The beliefs: together, we’re better

Our fresh new foundation should address each of the four primary requests and move TYPO3 firmly into the digital future. And, while keeping our updates so regular you could use them to calibrate your calendar, version 14 should maintain what’s great right now:

• Security and stability
• Multi-language and multisite capacity at the Core
• Open source values
• Flexible and customizable architecture

The outcomes: exciting new upgrades in April 2026

A modernized backend with a focus on usability and visual clarity. While we wish, as always, to refrain from chasing trends, we recognize that intuitive interfaces make for an easier backend experience. Visual updates include a new design system, lighter icons, rounded corners, and a re-arrangement of backend modules and labels. We’ve also enabled quick actions and contextual editing.

Developer-centric API improvements enable smoother integrations and a cleaner architecture—building a strong foundation ready for headless or composable approaches. We could list the specific features

• XLIFF2, 
• new TCA types, 
• new APIs, 
• Fluid5, 
• more PSR-14 events, 
• improved Scheduler, 
• an AI toolbox, 
• a QR Code Module, 
• improved translation workflow,
• …

But who’s counting? (We are: there are over a hundred.)

The first default theme brings you a ready-to-use frontend so you don’t have to build one in addition to your backend development work. Camino comes in four color variants and uses the same modernized visual elements we included in the backend interface.