Dear Sitefinity fans,
We are happy to present an even more production-ready
Sitefinity release for your evaluation. In this Release
Candidate, we have included numerous enhancements in the Modules functionality,
UI improvements and fixed most pressing issues.
You may not notice many visible changes from Beta 3 release as we have
focused on improving the underlying module architecture. Also, we did listen to
your feedback to fix reported bugs and made final adjustments to our CSS
support.
Again, we would like to ask you to share your impressions on
the stability, correctness and performance of the Release Candidate, so we can
iron out the remaining issues. The real world is much richer than our test
environment and we would appreciate any feedback that can help us make the
product better. After 7 months of hard work, we're almost there, folks! And it
is going to be a release that we can be really proud of.
Thanks to everybody making this release happen and for
providing us with a valuable feedback!
For the most enthusiastic, download the RC from here.
New Features Include:
Modules
- Generic
content – its functionality is additionally extended with versioning and permissions. Now, for any content piece you create, those
functions can be easily applied and set through Sitefinity’s interface.
- News –
a Generic Content successor, taking advantage of its fore mentioned
techniques
- Polls
– including the latest version of radChart
Administration
-
New User Manager – usability enhancements including:
-
Grid of users – a list of all registered users
-
User profiles – customizable profiles that allow users
to modify their profile details
- Search – search users by alphabetical index
- Group operations for users – assign role to multiple
users
- Multiple
Membership Providers – providing interface for managing Membership
Services.
Templates Manager
- Template
grid – displays a list with all available templates and all pages
inherited in each template, allowing easy template manipulation
- Versioning
– preview previous template versions and rollback changes.
Pages
- External
pages - add external pages to the navigation of Sitefinity
- Cross
domain support - add URL links that are external for the current domain
- Page
groups – adds navigational flexibility
- Lock
pages – lock individual pages while editing
New Sample Site
Sitefinity RC ships with a 100% XHTML compliant sample site,
showing its full range of features, controls and modules put to practice. It
allows you to dig into Sitefinity’s administration to get a better
understanding of our CMS product.