Sitefinity 3.6 Service Pack 1 - Apr 17, 2009 (All Release Notes)

What’s New/ Fixed

New web site template

• Company - Emerald is now included in the templates list.

Content View Based Controls (ContentView, NewsView, BlogPost, EventsView)

• [30542] Fixed:  error "The resource cannot be found" when a ContentView control is dropped to a template page with no extension set;
• [32824] Fixed: problem with comments not enabled for EventsView control set in List&Page mode with Comments;
• [26440] Fixed: Collapse/Expand properties issues in Blog/News Archive controls;
• Improved: Tags in the query strings are handled in a better way when you filter by tag name or TagID.

News Module

• New:  Added option to specify an image from a library as a thumbnail;  
• New:  Added option to specify a relative path in the thumbnail field;
• [30865] Fixed: issue with date formats for Publication and Expiration date using the cultures set in the globalization section of web.config;
• [31897] Created option for users to be redirected when they click an URL with a tag no longer existing;

 

Images and Documents Module

• [33044] Fixed:  problem with files uploaded to a library in a custom provider not displayed upon a click on Batch edit in Admin;  
• [32324] Fixed: error showing upon cancelling an upload of a video file to a video library;
• [29697] Fixed: problem with incorrect tag and categories count;
• [30634] Fixed: Pagination in List view;
• [31349] Fixed: Files size is calculated in bytes and is displayed as if in Kilobytes (KB);
• [32740] Fixed: issue with meta data not saved saved in a custom library,  and meta fields appearing twice in edit mode;
• [33238] Fixed: problem with images uploaded for the default language showing for all languages when allowlocalization is set to true;
• [30654] Fixed: Error appearing upon click on Select in Advanced>Obsolete Memebers>SelectedCategories of the Video control;

Search

• [21045] Fixed: problem with saving edits to a page not updating the AutoPage index;
• [27163] Fixed: problem with file/directory in some of the index directories leading to an error when the site content is being indexed;

Workflow Related

• [33349] Fixed: problem with Approve functionality not working for users with View and Approve permissions to Generic Content modules;
• [32946] Fixed: issue with user with no rights to edit generic content items being able to edit a shared content item;

Localization Related

• [33365] Fixed: error showing upon creating a content item in a different language when localizable and allowlocalization are set to true in web.config;
• [31477] Fixed: problem with Sitemap control not displaying specific cultures;

Medium Trust Support

• [33213] Fixed error showing in Admin, sections Modules, File Manager, Service;

Pages

• [31042] New: Not logged user browsing directly an Admin page in edit mode is redirected to a log in page;  
• [31113] Fixed: Page History View link displaying error: "The page cannot be displayed" on Windows 2003 server;

Users

• New: Added more details to User Profiles - position, phone, instant messenger type and value, picture;
• [29313] Fixed: LastLockoutDate field in the user database table is not set when a user locks himself out;

Other

• New: Implemented designers and external templates for Image Gallery and Download List controls;
• New: The BlogPosts control designer in Edit page displays all available blogs sorted by name. All selected blogs are displayed first, also sorted by name.
• New: RSS feeds are sorted by name in Admin section. There is also a new overload of the GetAllFeeds method that accepts as parameter a sorting expression and returns all feeds sorted by it.
• [32045] New: Enabled RSS feeds by culture;
• [26436] Fixed: Sorting by Name in Category List Control;
• [30506] Fixed: problem with CmsHttpModule breaking ajax request for webmethod in .aspx pages instead of .asmx;
• [30449] Fixed: problem with image not appearing when the Image URL property of the DynamicHyperLink control is set;
• [30927] Fixed:  when two membership providers are set to two different databases, they both use only the last connection defined in the dataAccess/connections configuration element in web.config;
• [30927] Fixed:  when two membership providers are set to two different databases, creating a search index creates an indexing client the first database, but keeps its setting are in the second one;
• [30665] Fixed: problem with TIU site disappearing from Project Manager menu after Sitefinity uninstall and reinstall;
• [31146] Fixed: issue with RadAjaxPanel added to a page calling the page Render method twice;
• [30171] Fixed: Bad request error showing when the name of the template contains “&”;
• [31297] Fixed: problem with setting the filter of a news archive control on one page updating the filter of a news archive control used on another page;
• [31397] Fixed problem with error shown upon attempting to create a copy of a page with more than 50 symbols in the page name;
• [31035] Fixed: problem with updates made to "EventsSchedule" control not saved;
• Fixed: Newsletters preview issue
• Improved: Some internal Forums module classes are now public, so the Forums control could be extended in an easier way.

Known Issues

Images and Documents Module

• [33419] Thumbnails for files in video libraries are not supported under

Medium Trust;

• Images & Documents module does not work with localization enabled;
• Uploading a zip with more than 250 files hangs the RadUploader. The files are actually uploaded;

Other

• [29686] Filter Expresion" property is not implemented for CategoryTree control;
• [30926] When wildcard mapping is enabled on IIS 5.1 the Generic Content modules (Generic Content, News etc.) are not working with;

The Upgrade Instructions are unchanged.