Sitefinity Release Notes

Release Notes – 4.1 SP 1

What’s New

• Analytics: Exception logging is added
• For Developers: Added ability to create a base page for public or backend pages. This can be used to inject common logic for the respective pages
• Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX are upgraded to version 2011.1.413
• Telerik RadControls for Silverlight are upgraded to version 2011.1.0419
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM is upgrade to version 2011.1.510.1
• jQuery is upgraded to version 1.5.2

What’s Fixed

Upgrade Issues

• Widgets: Some widgets show on the page frontend and not in the backend (PITS)
• Page Templates: Editing Content block results in error
• Browse end Edit: Option is not available for pages using a master page template (PITS)
• Classifications: Deleting Category results in error Return code: 12031
• Users: Attempt to create a new user results in error
• Lists: Opening backend section Lists displays popup windows that block the loading of the page (PITS)
• Newsletter: Clicking "Mailing Lists" results in error

Pages

• Reordering of pages is not updated in the backend and Navigation Widget (PITS)
• Templates: Updating a template is not reflected on the page until the page is republished (PITS)
• In option "This page redirects to another page "changes made to "Open this link in a new window" checkbox are not properly applied (PITS)
• Changing group page to normal page causes error
• Title & Properties: Checking "Allow multiple URLs" causes error (PITS)
• Title & Properties: Saving changes to title and properties of a group page produces no result (PITS)
• Title & Properties>Advanced Options: Properties under "Caching options" are shown twice (PITS)
• Editing the properties of external page is disabled (PITS)
• Layout Tab: Upon the creation of a custom layout control, which references script files in embedded resources, the resources are not loaded when the user initially drags and drops the control on a page/template (PITS)

Widgets

• Navigation Widget: Option to show "All pages under particular page" doesn't work
• Navigation Widget: In option "Custom selection of pages" entering a page URL and clicking the "Add" button results in error (PITS)
• Navigation Widget: When option “All pages under particular page” is selected but no page is specified, Argument null exception shows (PITS)
• Content Block> Image Manager, Image Widget: The selection of an image is lost upon clicking "Insert the image" (PITS, PITS)
• Content Block: When inserting link to images or documents that are already uploaded, inconsistent pagination is applied in the media selector (PITS)
• User list Widget: "Users by roles..." filter is not applied
• Profile user Widget: Editing Category custom field, added to a profile type, causes error
• Shared Content Block: Deleting the ID property in the widget Advanced mode causes error

Content

• News: Summary longer than 255 characters is trimmed without a warning
• Events: Subsequent edits of "Location" and "Contact information" cannot be made
• Lists: Blank alert window is shown when the list items grid view is expanded in the backend
• Lists: Creating list items without spaces in the first 250 characters causes the summary to throw exceptions in the backend
• Lists: "Select all" check box for list items doesn’t not work in all browsers
• Lists: When clicking either the "Edit Selected Template..." or "Create New Template", both "Save Changes" and "Create Template" buttons appear

Images, Videos, Documents and Files

• Bulk editing of Images titles, categories and tags doesn’t apply the changes (PITS)
• Image Widget: Reordering of images in album is not applied in Thumbnail view (PITS)
• When a second provider is added, uploading files causes errors
• Author field cannot be updated in Images, Videos, and Documents

Permissions

• Pages that should not be visible for everyone are shown in navigation and result in error when users click them (PITS)
• Permissions are not supported for custom roles (PITS)

Multilingual Support

• Pages: URL is not updated when Page Name is changed
• Content Block: Inserting a link to documents shows option to link to the files in the default culture only
• Setting Turkish as default language for the backend results in error

Other

• User Profiles: Custom fields added to a profile type cannot be selected to be displayed/edited in the Profile widget template (PITS, PITS,PITS)
• Login page: Title is updated to show 4.1 and not 4.0 (PITS)
• SiteMapPath and RadSiteMap are not working in latest internal build (PITS)
• Clicking Revision history when the page is locked by an user causes error
• Settings>Advanced: Editor configuration is not working
• Analytics: Multiple requests cause issues when a new dictionary is added
• Analytics: When using the Demo account, an exception is thrown saying that the user's Google Analytics credentials are incorrect

Breaking Changes Update

• An error for duplicate control IDs appear on the frontend pages after upgrade from 4.0 and 4.0 SP1. An automatic solution is available in the following KB Article
• Grey background is added to Sitefinity Basic theme and might show as on some elements of the page which have no background specified