FAL gained more and more importance in the world of TYPO3 whereas the uploads folder vanishes in the mist of oblivion. End users begin to use FAL drivers like amazon S3 or Cumulus, because a local file storage does not fulfill the needs of TYPO3-in-the-cloud (except with CDN's like CloudFlare).
A second reason for the improvement of FAL support is the usage of multiple FAL storages for access control (option "is public"). FAL file access control requires a private FAL storage, however most assets will be stored in a public one.
This demand was on the horizon for a long time but never seen as "TDB ASAP". The time has come that this demand will become manifest in its implementation.
FAL gained more and more importance in the world of TYPO3 whereas the uploads folder vanishes in the mist of oblivion. End users begin to use FAL drivers like amazon S3 or Cumulus, because a local file storage does not fulfill the needs of TYPO3-in-the-cloud (except with CDN's like CloudFlare). A second reason for the improvement of FAL support is the usage of multiple FAL storages for access control (option "is public"). FAL file access control requires a private FAL storage, however most assets will be stored in a public one. This demand was on the horizon for a long time but never seen as "TDB ASAP". The time has come that this demand will become manifest in its implementation.