The new forms framework makes a great impression. Not so sure about the new RTE (CKEditor). No question the old one (htmlArea) was a beast and terrible to configure, but when you once had a right configuration, it was very powerful. We will see how much effort it will be to customize the new editor.

#^TYPO3 v8.5 released

Christmas came early this year - TYPO3 v8.5 has been released just now, including some very exciting and promising changes. This so-called sprint release is one further step towards TYPO3 8 LTS, scheduled to be published in April 2017.