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January 29, 2008 - Version 3.0
New:
- Compatibility: Added support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (you can use Visual Studio 2005 as well).
- Compatibility: Added support for Windows Vista, including IIS 7.0 configuration.
- Compatibility: Added support for Mac OS browsers - you can now use both web site and administration interface with Safari 3.0 and Firefox 2.5 on Mac.
- New module: The new GeoMapping module allows you to display content on Google maps. You can use it to display your offices, stores, partners, etc.
- New module: Booking system for managing events and their attendees.
- BizForms: The notification e-mail may contain uploaded documents as an attachment.
- BizForms: The notification e-mail may use a custom layout.
- BizForms: The autoresponder now supports macro expressions.
- BizForms: You can restrict access to administration of particular forms.
- BizForms: You can use an image for the submit button and you can define the position of the submit button in the custom form layout.
- Controls and web parts: More settings were added to the pager configuration in Repeater, Datalist and other controls/web parts.
- Controls and web parts: The navigation controls now have a new property Word wrap that allows you to specify if word wrapping is allowed.
- CMS Desk: You can specify starting path of the user in the content tree in CMS Desk and restrict user from browsing the complete content tree.
- CMS Desk: New Design mode interface with drag-and-drop support.
- CMS Desk: Context menu support in content tree.
- CMS Desk: FCKeditor was updated to version 2.5.
- CMS Desk: The documents that point to some URL are now displayed with an arrow in the content tree to show that the document is a redirect.
- CMS Desk: New permission Design web site allows local users (without global administration authorization) modify the design of page templates.
- CMS Desk: The list view now supports filtering by name.
- CMS Desk: You can customize the behavior of the web application and administration interface and make minor changes to the administration interface using the new customization features described in Developer's Guide -> API programming and Kentico CMS internals -> Customizing the administration interface and web application events.
- Content staging: You can configure automatic synchronization of all content to the live server in a scheduled interval.
- E-commerce: Tracking number field added.
- E-commerce: Added support for custom fields in customer profile, order, SKU.
- E-commerce: The discount levels can be restricted to particular departments.
- E-commerce: Sales reports were added.
- E-commerce: The shopping cart optionally displays price calculation (discount and tax summary).
- E-commerce: The payment URL now supports data macros in format fieldname that inserts any value of the shopping cart, current context or customer.
- E-commerce: Added support for customer credit.
- E-commerce: New web part Similar products by sale for displaying box with "Customers who bought this product also bought...".
- File management: Improved performance of the GetFile.aspx script, added support for redirection to the disk version of the file.
- Forums: Added support for on-line editing and deleting of posts by forum administrators.
- Form controls: You can now choose which form controls should be available in report parameters designer.
- Form controls: The multiple choice and radio buttons controls now support vertical/horizontal alignment.
- General: System objects, such as templates, layouts and others may have a teaser image.
- General: Reports, form layouts and e-mail templates may contain images uploaded to the give object.
- General: Dialogs with Save button now support CTRL+S shortcut for saving the changes.
- General: The global event handler now supports OnBeforeInsertNewCultureVersion and OnAfterInsertNewCultureVersion events.
- General: The CSS styles can now depend on browser type by specifying styles in format .IE6 .MyCssClass.
- General: New macro {&
&} allows you to specify path or its parts in the Where condition of web parts.
- General: You can define your own custom macros and use them throughout the system.
- Import/export: You can easily export and import a single object, such as page template, web part, etc.
- Multi-lingual support: The content tree in CMS Desk displays an icon for documents that are not translated to the currently selected language.
- Multi-site support: You can configure multiple web sites to run on a single domain, in different subfolders.
- Newsletters: You can clone newsletters and newsletter templates.
- Newsletters: You can add custom fields to the subscriber profile.
- Newsletters: The subscription dialog allows you to subscribe to several newsletters at once.
- Newsletters: New My subscriptions web part allows users to manage their subscribed newsletters.
- Newsletters: New Newsletter archive web part allows you to publish previous newsletter issues on your web site.
- Newsletters: It's now possible to choose if you want to send the confirmation e-mails when the user subscribes/unsubscribes.
- Newsletters: The newsletter issue is now sent to subscribers immediately, without waiting for the next scheduler cycle.
- Newsletters: You can add attachments to the newsletter and insert in-line images that are sent with e-mail.
- Localization: You can add custom resource strings to the custom.resx file and override standard strings.
- Performance: Several performance improvements were made to page processing and image displaying.
- Relationships: It's now possible to add custom fields and custom (XML) data to the relationships (the feature requires custom-developed user interface).
- Reports: You can clone reports.
- Security: The page content access can be globally configured so that the permissions are checked for all pages, none of them or only for pages within secured site areas.
- Web analytics: New reports "Countries" and "Browser types" were added.
- Web analytics: It's possible to choose particular reports and disable others to save space and performance.
- Web parts: The documentation is now part of the web part properties
- Web parts: The transformation name and culture code properties may contain a macro expression (e.g. CMS.MenuItem.preview).
- Web parts: New web part Language selection.
- Web parts: A new web part Lightbox allows you to display content in a new layer and browse documents without postbacks.
- Web parts: New WMP Video, YouTube, Google Video, Real Media and Quicktime web parts allow you to easily integrate videos into the page
- Web parts: New Flash web part allows you to easily integrate Flash animations.
- Web parts: New Content slider web part allows you to create a slide show of documents.
- Web parts: New Scrolling text web parts allows you to scroll documents, such as latest news.
- Web parts: You can easily clone web parts, including their code for further customization or extension.
- Web parts: You can create custom web part layouts, which allows you to fully customize the design of web parts.
- Workflow: The non-published pages may throw 404 Page not found if the Site Settings -> Web Site -> Page not found for non-published documents option is turned on.
- CMS Desk: The Code tab is now only displayed if the CMSShowWebPartCodeTab value in the web.config is set to true.
- CMS Desk: The Code tab is now only displayed if the CMSShowWebPartBindingTab value in the web.config is set to true.
- CMS Desk: The Custom fields tab is no longer displayed when custom fields are not defined.
- CMS Desk: The default installation contains only spell checkers for en-us and en-gb cultures to save space. You need to download additional dictionaries from our site as described in Developer's Guide -> Content Management -> Using the built-in spell-checker.
- CMS Desk: The Recent documents dialog now displays only the latest 50 documents sorted in a descending order.
- E-commerce: The wishlist is now connected with particular site.
- Forums: The e-mail is not automatically pre-filled into the textbox in the new post dialog if the user is signed in.
- Polls: The cookie indicating if the user voted in the poll now uses a codename rather than ID.
Changes:
- CMS Desk: The Code tab is now only displayed if the CMSShowWebPartCodeTab value in the web.config is set to true.
- CMS Desk: The Code tab is now only displayed if the CMSShowWebPartBindingTab value in the web.config is set to true.
- CMS Desk: The Custom fields tab is no longer displayed when custom fields are not defined.
- CMS Desk: The default installation contains only spell checkers for en-us and en-gb cultures to save space. You need to download additional dictionaries from our site as described in Developer's Guide -> Content Management -> Using the built-in spell-checker.
- CMS Desk: The Recent documents dialog now displays only the latest 50 documents sorted in a descending order.
- E-commerce: The wishlist is now connected with particular site.
- Forums: The e-mail is not automatically pre-filled into the textbox in the new post dialog if the user is signed in.
- Polls: The cookie indicating if the user voted in the poll now uses a codename rather then ID.
Bug fixes:
- General: Next Run time didn’t change after editing Start time of Scheduled task.
- General: Only last item was saved to NodeCustomData document property.
- General: Some form controls didn’t work within user contributions.
- General: Culture didn’t change when swithing to edit the document from MyDesk.
- General: Root document wasn’t shown in Documents waiting for my approval.
- General: SpellChecker didn’t recognize some words with specific suffixes.
- General: Site deletion wasn’t logged in Event log.
- General: EditableItems weren’t able to store CDATA sections.
- General: Content staging didn’t support linked documents.
- General: No attachments were copied when creating new culture version of cms.file document using workflow.
- General: E-mail addresses didn’t allow ‘+’ and ‘-‘ characters.
- General: Culture of the document was determined from URL path if URL path and Alias path were same.
- General: Linked attachment could have point to different culture version than requested in specific situations.
- General: UserInfo wasn’t correctly configured to be serializable and caused problems with Out-of-process session storage.
- General: Content attribute of meta tags was missing when the value was empty.
- General: Non-existing users weren’t authenticated on first page request with Windows authentication.
- General: /getdoc/… links were not resolved properly with specific multilingual conditions.
- General: Preferred culture code was not validated against the allowed site cultures.
- General: License information page was not properly loading styles and images with extension less configuration.
- Web parts/controls: UseFlatView property of ForumGroup web part didn’t work properly.
- Web parts/controls: It wasn’t possible to set Path, CultureCode and SiteName properties in EditContribution web part.
- Web parts/controls: Application path was included in image path of EditableImage web part that caused problems when the site was imported to the root.
- Web parts/controls: Image tag was generated even if no image was selected in EditableImage web part.
- Web parts/controls: Random document web part didn’t work correctly when caching was on.
- Web parts/controls: Sorting wasn’t preserved while changing pages in CMSGrid.
- Web parts/controls: Pager of CMSDataList and CMSRepeater caused exception when these controls were nested.
- Web parts/controls: ClassNames selector didn’t allow choosing more items if these had nearly same code names.
- Web parts/controls: MinLength property of CMSEditableRegion didn’t work.
- Web parts/controls: CMSRepeater didn’t preserve ClientID of controls in transformations after post back.
- Web parts/controls: Breadcrumbs’ Show current item property always returned true.
- Web parts/controls: Breadcrumbs couldn’t display more document types at once.
- Web parts/controls: Language selector didn’t work when extension-less URLs were used.
- Web parts/controls: Some web parts didn’t support ReloadData method.
- Web parts/controls: CMSRepeater and CMSDataList didn’t work correctly when displaying more document types.
- Web parts/controls: Registration web part was not generating SHA1 passwords properly.
- Web parts/controls: Web part properties editor allowed selecting of the file field which is not supported on the web part properties form.
- Web parts/controls: ForumSearchResults web part didn’t use Unicode for searching, problems with Cyrillic alphabet, etc.
- Web parts/controls: Random document web part didn’t support multiple document types.
- Web parts/controls: CMSPagePlaceholder rendered additional
element in Preview mode.
- Web parts/controls: CMSWebPartZone renders additional
in preview mode.
- Web parts/controls: New item edit mode button was displayed just for Menu item document types.
- CMSDesk: MaxTreeNodes of dialogs with content tree contained only 1000 documents per parent node hiding the other documents.
- CMSDesk: Frame resizer didn’t work correctly for RTL languages.
- Installation: All licenses were deleted when installing to existing DB without creating new objects.
- CMSDesk: Relationship to the manually entered document path could not been added.
- CMSDesk: CTRL+S shortcut wasn’t working properly with certain E-commerce pages.
- CMSDesk: Certain edit mode controls were not using UI culture.
- CMSDesk: New link page limited the number of displayed documents in tree to MaxTreeNodes.
- CMSDesk: Version history and Workflow tabs used workflow information from incorrect document culture.
- CMSDesk: Large files stored in the database too big for the Connection to process could have not been deleted.
- CMSDesk: Documents without version history were deleted into the owner’s recycle bin instead of the recycle bin of the person who deleted them.
- CMSDesk: Destroying of the latest document version may have caused exception when working with the document further.
- CMSDesk: Grid with filtering could hide filter form in certain situations if no results were found.
- CMSDesk: Document could not be deleted by its owner after it was submitted to approval.
- CMSDesk: File import procedure didn’t properly check if the target document allowed CMS.File as child document.
- CMSDesk: Tasks configured just for one execution configured to be deleted may have not been called.
- CMSDesk: Two concurrent validation messages were displayed when both regular expression and length validation were configured in the document form.
- CMSDesk: When deleting the document, published version was deleted to the recycle bin instead of the latest version.
- CMSSiteManager: Under specific conditions, global template could have been retrieved instead of the local template.
- CMSSiteManager: Code name fields were not validated in certain locations.
- CMSSiteManager: Task configuration did not allow tasks running only on weekend days.
- CMSSiteManager: Page template tree was not correctly refreshed after deleting the page template.
- Newsletters: Unsubscribe link wasn’t translated to different languages.
- Newsletters: Sender name wasn’t used in confirmation e-mails.
- Newsletters: Absolute links in newsletters weren’t correctly resolved if SSL was used to access CMSDesk.
- Newsletters: Localization macros didn’t work in (un)subscription letters.
- Newsletters: Subscriber list caused Javascript errors in Newsletter preview.
- Newsletters: Update of Sent emails field was not thread-safe, in some cases wrong value could be written.
- Content staging: Documents order was changed when new document was synchronized.
- Content staging: No content staging task was created when the document was archived.
- Forums: When there were more forum groups on a page of ASPX website, then the forum groups didn’t hide after choosing some forum.
- Forums: Certain Unicode characters weren’t supported in the forum post subject.
- BizForms: Localization macros didn’t work in auto-responder e-mail body.
- BizForms: Exception occurred when entered default value was longer than max length in field editor.
- Web analytics: Period settings were lost when switching between reports.
- Web analytics: Month selection was not disabled when selecting the year statistics.
- Web analytics: Stored procedures contained [dbo]. which caused problems on specific configurations.
- Content staging: Documents with attachments and workflow may have been synchronized incorrectly with specific configurations.
- Polls: Poll web part was creating duplicit items on specific postbacks causing exception.
- Polls: Polls controls HTML code wasn’t XHTML valid.
- Polls: Only global administrator was able to add new polls.
- Import/Export: Import and export wasn’t able to process sites with many attachments stored in the database, ended up with OutOfMemory exception.
October 8, 2007 - Version 2.3a - Service Release
Bug fixes:
- Performance: Improved performance and optimized queries for large number of documents.
- In-line controls: The in-line controls didn't work correctly in the ASPX page templates.
- Controls: Template data pages displayed an invalid number of pages.
- Controls: CMSDocumentValue tag didn't display correct content when publish from/to was used.
- Controls: Image selector doesn't work correctly after postback.
- Import/export: The import didn't work for web sites that used workflow assigned to all document types in the given scop.
- Import/export: The attachments were not imported correctly in some special cases.
- E-commerce: The strings were not localizable in the fifth step of the shopping cart.
- URL rewriting: The parameters containing a dot (.) were not processed correctly with extension-less URLs.
- Search: The search query for custom document types without custom fields was incorrectly generated.
September 17, 2007 - Version 2.3
New:
- New module: Blogs
- New module: Polls
- New module: Reporting
- New module: Web analytics
- New module: User contributions
- Documentation: Enhanced documentation, more API examples.
- Linked documents: You can create links to existing documents so that they are displayed in multiple sections/categories.
- Installation: Simplified support for medium trust environment.
- Installation: It's now possible to deploy the web site to a local folder for later copying to the server over FTP.
- BizForms: It's now possible to specify if you want to display colons (:) in field labels.
- BizForms: The visitor who submits the form may now receive an automatic personalized e-mail response.
- CMS Desk: It's now possible to choose the language of the administration interface in the logon screen.
- CMS Desk: New report "Outdated documents" allows users to see document older than specified number of days.
- CMS Desk: The document owner property has been added to the documents. The property allows you to assign responsible users to the documents and display their documents in My Desk -> My Documents.
- CMS Desk: The newly created document can be optionally added as first, last or at its alphabetical position. You can configure the ordering in Site Manager -> Settings -> Content management -> New document order.
- CMS Desk: The Properties tab and its sub-sections can be optionally hidden from chosen roles. It allows you to customize and simplify the look of the editing interface. You need to enable personalization in Site Manager -> Settings -> Content management -> Personalize user interface by permissions. Then, you can customize the user interface by configuring permissions for module CMS User Interface in CMS Desk -> Administration -> Permissions.
- CMS Desk: It's possible to specify a different CSS stylesheet for every editable region.
- Web parts/controls: The CMSTreeMenu control/Tree menu web part now support mouse-over images.
- Web parts/controls: The CMSTreeMenu, CMSTabControl, CMSSiteMap, CMSBreadcrumbs and CMSListMenu controls now allow you to supply custom DataSource. They also allow you to get/set their rendered HTML code.
- Data engine: It's now possible to write your own data provider.
- E-commerce: Wishlist support has been added.
- E-commerce: The payment options are now dependent on shipping options.
- E-commerce: The order list now displays the orders in different colors based on their status and the order can be moved to the previous/next status using the action buttons.
- E-commerce: The tax may be optionally zero if Tax ID is entered.
- E-commerce: It's now possible to edit user departments in the User properties dialog.
- E-commerce: Support for discount level has been added - every customer can have a global discount on all products.
- E-commerce: Support for volume discounts has been added.
- E-commerce: It's now possible to specify taxes based on states, not only on countries.
- E-commerce: It's now possible to specify the shopping cart and wishlist URL in the Site Manager -> Site Settings -> E-commerce section.
- E-commerce: A document type can be configured so that whenever a new document of that type is created, a new product is also automatically created and the data is copied to the product.
- E-commerce: It's now possible to track the number of products in stock that can be ordered and optionally limit orders to number of available items.
- Forums: The moderator can approve a post including its replies (sub-posts).
- Forums: The user may be required to enter a security (CAPTCHA) code when adding a new post to the forum. This feature helps you avoid spam.
- Import/Export: It's not possible to import only new items without overwriting duplicate items.
- Site Management: The site deletion is now asynchronous to avoid timeouts when deleting a large web site.
- Newsletters: You can now import and export subscribers.
- Newsletters: You can specify the CSS styles for every newsletter template, separately from the template body.
- Newsletters: Improved user interface of the newsletter issue editor.
- Newsletters: More robust e-mail sending. The newsletter has been successfully tested with 1000 subscribers.
- Performance: Improved performance of file retrieval and optimization of some queries.
- Search: Improved performance
- Search: The search page now uses URL parameters instead of postback so that it's possible to use the Back browser button on the linked pages.
- Security event handler: Added new method OnFilterDataSetByPermissions.
Changes:
- CMS Desk: When a new document is created, its CSS stylesheet is set to "inherit" by default.
- CMS Desk: The CSS stylesheet property has been moved to Properties -> General and it's no longer versioned.
- CMS Desk: The destroy document and destroy version history options are no longer offered to users without Destroy permission.
- CMS Desk: The delete all culture versions option is no longer offered on single-language web sites.
- CMS Desk: The content tree is now displayed in chosen language when using multilingual support.
- Controls examples: The CMSControlsExamples folder content is now available as a part of the Corporate Site sample web site, in the Examples section.
Bug fixes:
June 8, 2007 - Version 2.2
New:
- General: Kentico CMS now fully supports Medium Trust environment and compiled web projects. See Developer's Guide -> Installation and deployment -> Additional configuration tasks -> Configuration for Medium trust environment. You need to save all virtual objects to the file system before compilation using CMSSiteManager -> Administration -> System -> Deployment by clicking the button “Save all virtual objects to disk”.
- General: Page templates of the portal engine now can have custom content for the HEAD element specified.
- General: The CSS stylesheet, page title, description and keywords can now be set for every section of the web site and inherited to underlying documents.
- General: The title format is now configurable in Site Manager -> Settings -> Page title format and allows you to use any common document field in the title (e.g. the document name).
- General: You can now specify which sections of the web site should be accessible only over the HTTPS protocol. The system then automatically redirects the user to the HTTPS protocol if the user tries to access the page over HTTP. You can configure this in the CMS Desk -> Content -> Properties -> Security. You need to have SSL configured correctly on your web server.
- General: Any document type can now behave as page (menu item) - this can be configured in the document type properties.
- General: Most of the web parts now work correctly with Enter key.
- General: The extended characters in aliases (URLs) are now automatically converted to basic latin characters. This doesn't apply to complex scripts, such as Chinese or Arabic.
- General: The users now have two new fields with account creation date and last successful logon.
- General: It's now possible to use URLs based on alias path rather than on the GUID. You can configure this in Site Manager -> Settings -> URLs -> Use permanent URLs (false means use alias path).
- CMS Desk: Spellchecking support was added.
- CMS Desk: You can now upload files in the file selection dialog which simplifies inserting images into the text in the WYSIWYG editor.
- CMS Desk: You can now easily create multiple documents of the same type in the same section of the web site using the "Save and another" button.
- CMS Desk: The list view mode now allows you to delete/destroy multiple documents at once.
- CMS Desk: The editing interface in the Page and Form tab may optionally notify the user when she is trying to leave the page without saving the changes. You can configure this in Site Manager -> Settings -> Content Management -> Confirm content changes.
- CMS Desk: The content tree now displays the + sign only for items with sub-items.
- CMS Desk: The transformations can now be edited directly from the web part properties.
- CMS Site Manager: New diagnosing tools for testing e-mails and file system permissions were added to the Site Manager -> Administration -> System dialog.
- Controls: New Paged text web part now allows to display long text on multiple pages.
- Controls: The navigation controls and web parts now have the RenderImageAlt/Render image alt property that allows you to specify if alt attribute should be rendered for images used in the menu items.
- Controls: The Random document web part now supports the WHERE condition property.
- Controls: The Breadcrumbs control/web part now displays the menu items while respecting particular settings of every item (such as show in navigation).
- Controls: The Breadcrumbs control/web part now supports RTL languages.
- Controls: The image gallery web part now supports moving to the previous, next and chosen image.
- Controls: The CMSEditableRegion control used in the ASPX templates now has a property InheritContent that allows you to inherit the content of the editable regions on sub-pages placed under some page (menu item).
- Controls: New HEAD HTML Code web part allows you to render code into the HEAD element of the page.
- Controls: New web part/control Editable image/CMSEditableImage allows you to specify regions for images similar to editable regions.
- Controls: All properties of web parts now support the localization strings in format key where key is the string key name specified in Site Manager -> Development -> UI Cultures -> Strings.
- Controls: All web parts now have a property Display to roles that allows you to specify which roles should see the given web part.
- Controls: The CMSTreeMenu control/Tree menu web part now supports mouseover style settings.
- BizForms: You can now dynamically specify the values in the From, To, Subject, Display text and Redirect to URL fields using the macro expressions like where firstname is the name of the field that will be merged with the text.
- BizForms: You can now specify the subject of the notification e-mail.
- BizForms: The system now automatically renames the BizForm and its database table if you import a BizForm of the same name with another site.
- BizForms: The country/province selection dialog now stores the values as code names rather than IDs.
- BizForms: It's now possible to export data to Excel 2007.
- Forums: The users can now have their picture and signature and edit them using the My Profile web part.
- Forums: The users can now specify their nickname in the My Profile web part.
- Forums: You can now configure the use of WYSIWYG editor for post editing.
- Forums: The users are now informed when they submit a post to a moderated forum.
- E-mails: The e-mails can be sent over SSL-secured SMTP server - you can set it up in Site Manager -> Settings -> E-mails -> Use SSL.
- Multilingual support: It's now possible to configure automatic use of default language version of the file if it's not translated - this option is now independent on the "Combine with default culture" option that is used for content. It can be configured in Site Manager -> Settings -> Web Site -> Combine files with default culture.
- Newsletter: The subscribers can have custom fields defined in Site Manager -> Development -> System tables.
- Workflow: It's now possible to configure the workflow scope for all document types.
Bug fixes:
- Controls: The CMSTreeMenu and CMSListMenu didn't recognize the selected menu item correctly if the URL path used a different prefix than the alias path.
- Controls: The PageManager didn't check the permissions correctly.
- CMS Desk: The scheduling dialog didn't work correctly with some cultures.
- Workflow: In very specific cases, the user could approve the document without being authorized to do that.
- CMS Desk: The virtual objects (layouts, CSS stylesheets) were not updated in the memory when the user modified them using the check-in/check-out function.
- CMS Desk: The browse tree permission didn't allow editors to browse content unless they had also the edit permission.
- CMS Desk: The WYSIWYG editor didn't work correctly with https URLs.
- CMS Desk: The default values of the custom fields were not applied when creating a new user.
- CMS Desk: The maximum number of tree nodes didn't work correctly with multilingual web sites.
- Controls: The MyProfile web part didn't work correctly on ASPX page templates.
- Controls: The Registration form web part didn't allow for empty value in the "Assign to roles" property.
- Controls: The related documents settings didn't work correctly in some web parts.
- BizForms: The custom query for retrieving drop-down list items couldn't use < and > characters.
Changes:
- Editor: The WYSIWYG editor is now placed in an IFRAME by default. If you experience any issue with design in the editing mode, please make sure you have in your web.config, in the appSettings section.
- Database: All tables now have the Enforce for replication property set to No.
- CMS Desk: The Approve/Publish button now saves the changes made to the text.
- E-commerce: When a customer is disabled, her user account is disabled as well.
May 11, 2007 - Version 2.1e - Service Release
Bug fixes:
- Allowed extensions for uploaded files were not applied correctly.
- The extension of the postback URL was incorrect when using an extension different to .aspx.
- Missing scrollbars in several dialogs.
- Enter did not work as a default submit button in the search dialog.
- The PageInfoProvider didn't work correctly with addresses that were in format xxx.domain.com/xxx.
- The image gallery web part didn't work correctly in ASPX templates.
- The site import wizard didn't check if there's any package to be imported.
- The COM_CurrencyExchangeRate table contained duplicated records after export/import.
- The hashtables with queries and transformations were not updated when a document type was deleted.
- The site map web part/CMSSiteMap control didn't work correctly with URL redirection.
- The custom error message of the "user control" field and drop-down list field wasn't used.
- The values of the user custom fields were deleted when the user account general properties were updated.
- The BizForm property "Send form data to e-mail" couldn't be unchecked.
- The drop-down menu/CSS menu didn't work correctly with mouse-over CSS class.
- The BizForm web part didn't work correctly with custom code in the Code tab.
- The move of the document to another site didn't work correctly.
- The tab menu/CMSTabControl didn't work correctly with URL redirection.
- The passwords in plain text format were not case sensitive.
- The GetFileUrl functions did not resolve the links correctly.
- The SMTP server name now supports an explicit port number in format smtpserver:port.
- Improved quality of resized images and client caching of images.
- Improved and more stable site import process.
- The version history of attachments was not exported/imported.
- Sorting in CMSDataGrid control/Grid web part didn't work correctly.
- The rollback didn't preserve correct links to attached files.
- The import process didn't update the workflow step correctly in the imported documents.
- The BizForm module didn't display a scrollbar in the Data -> Select fields dialog.
- The content staging synchronization didn't work correctly in special cases when the first synchronization task was "Published".
- The content staging synchronization didn't work correctly for attachments in multilingual documents.
- The information on the current workflow step wasn't updated in some cases.
- The Random Document web part didn't work correctly in ASPX templates.
- The search results were not correct for the "all words" option.
- The paths to CSS files in the Forums and E-commerce modules did not work correctly for extension-less URLs.
- The BizForm Data dialog now supports paging.
- The controls displaying relationships might fail in some cases due to invalid query.
- The custom layouts and master page template were not updated in the cache when modified.
- The root document was displayed instead of the default page in some cases, even if the user viewed the live site.
- The import process didn't import the ASPX templates, VB.NET inline user controls correctly.
- The document name path wasn't updated correctly when copying or moving a document in some cases.
- The Shopping Cart content was deleted before the OnFinishOrder method was called.
- The Shopping Cart didn't use the custom method GetPaymentURL.
- The web part properties dialog didn't work correctly when the page alias path contained extended characters.
- The file upload didn't work correctly if the files folder was outside the web site and the web site root didn't have modify permissions assigned.
- The workflow didn't work correctly after it was disabled for the documents. Now the documents finish their workflow process and then they start working as a document without workflow.
- The non-approved content changes appear on the live web site when the document was being edited.
- The ViewState didn't work correctly in ASCX user controls inserted through the "General/User control" web part.
- The upload field in BizForms raised an exception when trying to update an existing record.
- The pager used in repeater and datalist kept invalid URL parameters used on other page/by other users.
- The web part configuration dialog wasn't displayed correctly when the alias path of the page contained extended characters.
- The non-aproved images were not displayed when inserted into the page.
- The images in version history might not be displayed in some cases due to the loss of user session.
Changes:
- The BizForm e-mails can now be sent to multiple e-mail addresses separated with a semicolon (;).
New:
- The transformations can now be configured for different language versions - you only need to define the transformation with name in format transformation_.
- The menu controls can now load related table content if you specify a single document type, which allows you to filter the items using the WHERE expression.
- The CMSListMenu control/CSS List Menu web part now has a new property RenderLinkTitle/Render link title property that allows you to configure the control so that it displays a title for every link for better accessibility.
March 20, 2007 - Version 2.1d - Service Release
Bug fixes:
- The permission "Check-in any document" was not applied.
- It was possible to approve a checked-out document.
- The unsubscribe link in the newsletter module contained invalid URL in case the web site was running in the site root.
- The field name couldn't be renamed.
- E-mails sent from the BizForms module did not support localized strings.
- The SkinID property of the search dialog could cause errors.
- Some of the session variables didn't support out-of-process session storage.
- The newsletter web parts didn't support localization of custom captions.
- The Add new button was displayed in the Detail view.
- The generated search query was invalid for container document types.
- The SQL Import displayed confusing messages when the connection string was not set.
- The deletion of all items in an order in the E-commerce module caused an exception.
- The RoleInfoProvider didn't raise the CustomDataHandler events.
- The shipping, billing and currency can now be localized using the localization strings.
- The layouts, transformations and web parts might be cached even after they were modified.
Changes:
- The FCKeditor shared toolbar can now be placed in a separate frame to avoid issues with design. You can set up the placement in a separate frame using the following web.config parameter:
- Please note: This value is now intended for testing purposes only, it will be fully supported in the next versions.
New:
- The BizForms data view now supports paging.
- All menu controls now support the custom menu item settings, such as styles or custom images. The mouseover action is supported only by CMSMenu control/Drop down menu web part.
- Added browser configuration for correct behavior of the web site when it's accessed by W3C validator.
- The system now logs the restarts of the application and displays the time from the last restart.
- It's now possible to send support requests with system information from the Site Manager -> Support section.
March 1, 2007 - Version 2.1c - Service Release
Bug fixes:
- The workflow notification e-mail was sent with a confusing subject to the person who was authorized to approve the document.
- The subscription in the forum didn't work correctly in the tree view mode - the user was subscribed to the whole forum instead of particular post.
- The Design tab was not displayed for the pages with inherited template.
- The Calendar web part didn't work correctly when placed on an ASPX page template.
- If the page contained multiple forum groups, they were not displayed when the user selected a forum in some forum group.
- The code placed in the Code tab of the web part didn't work correctly on sub-pages.
- The code placed in the Code tab of the web part didn't work for editable regions.
- When the site code name was changed, the system still didn't allow to create a new site using the original code name.
- When the site code name was changed, the images were no longer visible.
- The copying of file documents didn't copy the file.
- Fixed bugs in caching of layouts, transformations and web parts.
- The string resources didn't work correctly if stored in database.
- It wasn't possible to have two BizForms of the same code name on two different sites.
- The postback didn't work with extension-less URLs on Windows Server 2003.
February 22, 2007 - Version 2.1b - Service Release
Bug fixes:
- Important security fix: The administration section didn't control the access rights correctly. It's highly recommended that you upgrade your system to 2.1b!
- The search dialog didn't work in the ASPX templates.
- The Current User web part didn't use the user name label CSS style.
- The CSS list menu rendered invalid code for inactive menu items.
- The product access permissions were fixed in the Content -> Product dialog.
- The image gallery web part didn't work correctly in the ASPX templates.
- The CMSTreeMenu control rendered invalid code in case some menu item image was specified.
- The page template code name uniqueness wasn't checked.
- The check-out function for the page layout didn't work correctly in some cases.
- The e-mails sent by the Newsletter module didn't display the line breaks in some e-mail clients correctly.
- The filtering in Customers and Orders lists didn't work correctly.
- The allowed file extensions that can be uploaded were case sensitive.
- The Relationship name property of web parts wasn't saved and applied.
- The ASPX page template files were not exported during the Export objects wizard.
- The Sign out button wasn't localized.
- Several bugs were fixed in the import/export process.
What's new:
- Partial translations were added: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Czech.
February 7, 2007 - Version 2.1a - Service Release
Bug fixes:
- The file name couldn't be entered for ASPX page templates.
- Document check-out could lead to a database dead-lock if the version history length was too small.
- Several bug fixes in the import/export procedures.
- The left tree menu didn't unfold when some document was opened using an e-mail notification link.
- The file upload didn't work correctly if files were configured to be stored in the file system.
- The ID of the web part added to a new page template wasn't unique.
- Missing scrollbars in the New document type wizard.
- The search engine caused an exception if multiple searches were performed at the same time.
- The cloned template modifications affected also the original template.
- The RSS feeds contained invalid news item URLs if running in the web site root.
- The password format was not set correctly when creating a new user.
- Paging didn't work correctly in the Image gallery web part.
- CMSRepeater and some other controls didn't work with custom ItemTemplate sections and other nested
- onfiguration sections.
- Portal page template inserted under the ASPX page templates didn't work correctly.
- The button Submit to approval might been still displayed after the document was published in some cases.
- After editing a page and pressing check-in the content controls were not locked until you navigated away from the
- age and back again.
- Language selector didn't work correctly.
- The portal engine-related tabs (dialogs) were not hidden for ASPX page templates.
- Several bug fixes in the Content staging module, including synchronization of move/copy operations.
- The visual inheritance didn't work correctly if the document inherited only from the root document in some cases.
- Added documentation of new database tables.
Changes:
- The CMS system resource strings were moved to the CMSResources/CMS.resx file which speeds up the installation, makes the translation easier and saves database storage space.
January 31, 2007 - Version 2.1
What's new:
- Improved performance.
- New Forums module.
- New E-commerce module.
- New Content Staging module.
- Added full support for ASPX page templates and documentation.
- It's now possible to add custom fields to the user profile through the administration interface (Development -> System tables).
- The master page can be edited using a special tab "Master page" that is displayed for the root page. This allows you to edit DOCTYPE, HEAD element content, BODY element attributes and page layout of the master page.
- The document types can be marked as document types with "page template selection" so that the page template must be selected when a new document is being created.
- The Newsletter module now allows you to choose if you want to send confirmation e-mails to users when you subscribe/unsubscribe them through the administration interface.
- The virtual paths, such as "/images/image1.gif", can be used also for the background attribute.
- The logon form now supports sending of forgotten passwords.
- The icons in content tree can now be clicked (for better usability).
- The Drop down menu (CMSMenu control) now supports separators.
- Support for nested repeaters/datalists.
- More robust import/export methods.
- The SQL Import utility now supports import of images.
- The web parts can now be placed directly on the ASPX pages or ASCX controls, outside the portal engine.
- New BizForm web part.
- New JavaScript web part.
- New My Profile web part.
- The Registration form web part now supports registration of users whose account needs to be activated by the administrator.
- New Web Services web parts (Datalist, Grid, Repeater) allow you to display content provided by a web service.
- New Master page tab in the CMS Desk allows you to easily modify the master page, including DOCTYPE, HEAD section and BODY attributes.
- New property Skin ID was added to several web parts.
- It's now possible to change the default culture of the web site through the user interface at any time.
- It's now possible to set content inheritance for every single page.
- It's now possible to create page templates with page template-specific HTML layout.
- The scheduled tasks can now be automatically deleted after they are completed.
- New menu action configuration section has been added to the Properties -> Menu dialog. You can use it to define an inactive menu item.
- New CMSDocumentValue control allows you to display the given value of the current document.
- The transformations can now use a new method IfEmpty to decide if the value (e.g. image field) is empty and display conditional text.
- New example of RSS feed with content from Kentico CMS was added to the Developer's Guide -> Extending modules -> RSS feeds.
Changes:
- The design mode is not applied only to the current page (page template), not on the whole page.
- The PDF documents are now returned with content disposition inline, so that they do not display a download dialog.
Bug fixes:
- The localization was not fully supported in the BizForm form.
- The CMSEditModeButtonAdd control rendered empty element in the live site mode.
- The repeater/datalist/grid controls/web parts didn't work correctly if placed on the page template assigned to a document of other type than "page (menu item)".
- Page templates with empty parent category were not displayed in the page template selection dialog.
- Several dialogs were not displayed correctly in IE 6.0.
- The drop down menu was displayed as vertical when it was approved in the Preview mode.
- The date time picker might not work correctly when the content was in other culture than en-us.
- The "is custom string" box value in the UI Cultures section was not saved correctly.
- The "created by" field of the document was not set when a new document was created.
- The full-page caching didn't work correctly with personalized web sites (authenticated users).
- Document links couldn't be created correctly in the Static HTML web part properties in IE 7.0.
- Extended characters were not displayed correctly in page layouts and transformations.
- The List view mode was displaying only published documents.
- The file selection dialog did not work correctly for other file types than images.
- The output filter did not work correctly in some special cases.
- The e-mail form field didn't validate the e-mail addresses written in uppercase correctly.
- The BizForm module didn't support localization of all form captions.
- The Grid (CMSDataGrid), Datalist (CMSDataList) and Repeater (CMSRepeater) controls didn't work correctly if placed on page template assigned to non-page document type.
- The icons of the custom document types were not exported and imported.
- Storing passwords in hashed format didn't work correctly.
- The BizForm module did not save the uploaded files.
- The design mode of the web parts rendered an incorrect code of the table elements.
- The changes made to the web part container code were not updated on the live web site automatically.
- The session variables are now serializable, so that they can be used within a web farm with SQL Server session store.
- The files placed within a secured area didn't require authentication.
November 29, 2006 - Version 2.0b
What's new:
- IE 7.0 and FF 2.0 are now fully tested with Kentico CMS and supported.
- It's now possible to get the time when the scheduler was last run and restart it manually if necessary.
- New Document pager web part that can be used for displaying a list of documents, one document on every page. t's useful for paging of long articles and paging of "Take a tour" wizards.
- New Random document web part that enables displaying a random document, such as "featured product".
- Improved performance of the tree view in CMS Desk -> Content section.
- Improved performance of output filters and portal engine.
- New system of caching that enables caching of whole pages which improves the performance around ten-times in comparison to web part-level caching. The caching can be set up in document properties -> General.
- The information message about editing/preview mode is no longer displayed if the page is displayed inside the CMS Desk.
- Improved support for editing page layouts directly from the Design mode.
- TAB key is now supported in several code editors (such as page layout or transformation editor) throughout the user interface.
The CSS list menu web part/CMSListMenu control now supports ID prefixes for differentiating several list menus on the same page.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed design in master page template selection in the New site wizard.
- Fixed problems with scheduling engine that appears in some server environments where the server cannot request page from itself (due to firewall or DNS settings). If you experienced problems with crashing ASP.NET process, you need to add the following parameter to the appSettings section of your web.config file: - you can find more details in Site settings.
- Datalist no longer renders a table element in the detail view.
- The web site now contains App_Browsers folder with configuration for search engines, such as Google, so that they can access sub-pages using friendly URLs (it workarounds a bug in ASP.NET 2.0 URL rewriting process).
- The forbidden characters were replaced with underscore (_) instead of configured replacement character in some cases.
- The newsletter module doesn't use the Sender from name when sending a newsletter issue that has been already mailed out.
- The newsletter module may display a scheduling dialog after saving the static newsletter configuration.
- The newsletter module doesn't resolve the e-mail address in element correctly.
- The content tree may display a JavaScript error when the document name contains an apostrophe.
- The global administrator can select links or images from any web site even if he/she is not assigned to the web site.
- UI culture (string translations in BizForms, date/time format, etc.) is now set correctly on the web site based on the current user's preferences.
- More stable import/export module.
- String translation in Development -> UI Cultures -> Strings threw an error saying the string already exists.
- The page template wasn't editable in Design mode if visual inheritance was broken by the Inherit page levels property.
- The documents are now correctly displayed if they are placed directly under the page template with page placeholder that has a default page template specified.
- The web parts can now be correctly moved to newly added web part zones.
- The Breadcrumbs web part contained an extra
element.
- The files referred using their URL based on alias path did not reflect the currently selected content culture.
- The notification e-mail in BizForms module now contains correctly translated field names.
The document creation through API failed for long names/alias paths.
HTML files uploaded to Kentico CMS are now displayed directly in the browser, without displaying a download/open dialog.
Version 2.0a - November 7, 2006
What's new:
- New design of the sample Corporate Site project.
- Improved performance and optimized output filters.
- The folder app_code/ is now automatically exported/imported with web site.
Bug fixes:
- If an invalid default alias path is used, the user is redirected to the root.
- Fixed bugs in the licensing mechanism.
- The connection string is now saved to the web.config file only after the database is successfully created.
- Documents with long names might not be saved.
- Import/export didn't save settings values correctly.
- The registration form raised validation on every postback.
- The web site might not be deleted.
- The URL path was incorrectly updated when alias path was modified.
- The WYSIWYG editor created links with domain, although they were inside the given site, the URL didn't follow the configured extension.
- The Save as new template button updated all pages using the original template.
- The breadcrumbs control displayed incorrect links.
- Several minor bug fixes.
Version 2.0 - October 26, 2006
What's new:
Framework and infrastructure changes:
- All code rewritten to C# 2005, VB.NET version is no longer available, but development in VB.NET will be still supported.
- Visual Studio 2003/ASP.NET 1.1 is no longer supported.
- Improved and enhanced API. All operations are now accessible through the object model.
- Custom event handlers throughout the whole system that allow developers to enhance the code with custom actions when e.g. a new document is created, when a user is authenticated, etc.
- All possible settings (web.config settings, transformations, etc.) are now stored in the database instead of the file system.
- It’s possible to configure the web site so that it doesn’t write into the file system.
New Portal Engine
- It’s now possible to create pages using webparts in the web browser, without having to use Visual Studio.
- Several webparts are now available: navigation, content, membership etc.
Multi-site Management
- It’s now possible to run multiple web sites using a single database and code installation.
- The web sites can have different or shared users, content, structure and settings.
Content Management
- New database structure for storing content.
- Every site is “multilingual” by default, even if it uses only a single language. It means that it’s not necessary to configure multilingual support.
- Multilingual web sites may have different structures – it’s no longer necessary to have all documents in the default language.
- New, easier-to-use user interface with preview functionality (without staging) and simplified editing.
- It’s now possible to sort all content tree items manually using arrows instead of setting Menu item order value.
- All documents (not only pages) now can have their menu item caption, page title, keywords, order and page template.
- All documents can be restored from the recycle bin after being deleted accidentally even without versioning.
- Workflow can be assigned to particular site sections and document types, instead of per-document type basis.
- Global search & replace.
- Improved link management using the permanent links that keep working after the target document has been moved or renamed.
Security
- Added membership provider implementation that enables use of Kentico CMS user management with standard ASP.NET 2.0 membership controls.
- Support for custom authentication (user and role information) from an external source.
- Support for automatic import of user account and roles from Active Directory/NT domain.
- Users can change their profile (e-mail, password, preferred culture) in the My Desk section.
- Customizable user profiles
- New user attributes "is editor" and "is global administrator".
- Local deny permission overrides the global permissions.
- Secured areas can be easily defined through the user interface.
Form Engine
- It’s possible to specify custom form layout for editing forms and BizForms.
- Custom validation (value range, regex) is now supported.
- Custom styles for every control.
- Support for field groups.
Deployment
- It’s possible to export the whole web site or its parts (e.g. document types) into a single file (on the development machine) and restore it on the target (production) server.
- Global search & replace enables easy updating of links.
- Kentico CMS now can run without disk write permissions, although it's not optimal from the usability and performance point of view.
File Management
- All files are now stored in a special folder and retrieved using a dedicated ASPX page.
- It’s possible to store files only in the database.
URL Rewriting
- URL Rewriting now supports extension-less URLs without extra “dummy” files on the disk.
- Custom actions and URL rewriting rules are now supported.
BizForms
- Optional switching to advanced user interface with more options.
- Custom form layout, validation and styles.
Newsletters
- Completely new, more robust interface and API.
- Support for dynamic newsletters (such as last week's articles, etc.).
Forums
- Simplified, more flexible configuration.
- Forums can be optionally opened only for registered users.
- Support for ad-hoc forums.
Scheduling
- New scheduling sub-system enabling scheduling of custom tasks.
Search
- New provider-based model enabling use of custom search engine.
- Customizable search results design.
- Search results can be paged.
CMS Controls
- DataGrid, Repeater and DataList controls now support selection of only top N rows.
- DataGrid, Repeater and DataList controls now support paging.
Changes:
October 8, 2007 - Version 2.3a - Service Release
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