Deprecation: #89866 - Global TYPO3-information related constants

See forge#89866

Description

The following global constants, which are initialized at the very beginning of each TYPO3-related PHP process, have been marked as deprecated:

• TYPO3_copyright_year

• TYPO3_URL_GENERAL

• TYPO3_URL_LICENSE

• TYPO3_URL_EXCEPTION

• TYPO3_URL_DONATE

• TYPO3_URL_WIKI_OPCODECACHE

They have been migrated to the PHP class TYPO3\CMS\Core\Information\Typo3Information in order to benefit from opcaching, and to exactly reference when they are used and where they are used throughout TYPO3.

This allows for further optimizations during the Bootstrap process and in our testing suites.

In addition, the new PHP class encapsulates all global TYPO3-information and community-wide information in one place.

Impact

No E_USER_DEPRECATED error is triggered, however the constants will work during TYPO3 v10, and be removed with TYPO3 v11.

Affected Installations

Any TYPO3 installation with a custom extension that uses these constants directly, which is highly unlikely.

Migration

Use the public class constants or the public methods of the new PHP class TYPO3\CMS\Core\Information\Typo3Information directly.