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February 6, 2009 - Version 4.0

New:

  • New module: Categories
    • enables additional categorization/taxonomy of documents 
  • New module: Tags 
    • enables tagging any documents (not only blog posts) with tags and displays a tag cloud 
  • New module: Alternative forms 
    • enables creating multiple versions of editing form in BizForms, document types and custom tables 
    • allows you to define custom forms, such as user registration form 
  • New module: Custom tables 
    • enables creating custom tables in case you need to store some data or web content outside of the CMS content repository 
    • it’s useful if you need to work with large number of records in a single table 
  • New module: Banned IPs 
    • allows administrators to limit access from chosen IP addresses 
  • New module: Bad words 
    • allows administrators to forbid nasty words and replace them, report them or disable given user action, such as forum post or blog comment 
  • New module: Avatar gallery 
    • allows administrators to create pre-defined avatars (user images) and let users choose their avatar or upload a new one 
  • New module: Time zones 
    • allows you to display time and date calculated for the given web site or user 
    • it’s useful for global communities so that users can see e.g. forum post time based on their time zone 
  • New module: On-line users 
    • allows you to display users who are currently on-line and kick them if they do not follow the site rules 
  • New module: Message boards 
    • allows you to create message boards and comments for documents 
    • the module supports moderation, subscriptions, rating and other features 
  • New module: Notifications 
    • enables subscribing to content changes 
    • provides a general notification framework that can be used not only for e-mail, but also for any custom notification gateway, such as instant messengers 
  • New module: Friends 
    • allows site members to maintain relationships with other site members and share personal information with them 
  • New module: Report abuse 
    • allows site visitors to report offending content, such as forum posts, blog comments and others 
  • New module: Groups 
    • allows you to create social networking sites with user communities (groups) 
    • allows inviting users to join the group 
    • allows users to create group-specific content and applications, such as wiki-like pages, forums, message boards, media libraries and polls 
  • New module: Media library 
    • enables easy management of media files, such as images, videos or music 
    • the files can be accessed directly without any script and they are not stored in the database, so you can work also with large files 
  • Reviewed module: Forums 
    • many new features including: 
    • quoting 
    • mark as answer 
    • attachments 
    • BB-style editor 
    • customizable forum layouts 
    • locked forums/threads 
    • sticky threads 
    • and many others 
  • Reviewed module: URL rewriting and aliases
    • you can now specify default alias path or URL redirection for every domain alias of the web site, which means that you can display different home page to visitors based on the domain name they use to access the site 
    • many new features including: 
    • support for unlimited URL Aliases for every document 
    • tracking of marketing campaigns when some page is visited using some particular URL 
    • custom extensions of pages and uploaded files 
    • support for macros in URLs 
  • Reviewed module: Membership 
    • improved member management 
    • the user registration form can be easily customized with your own fields without programming 
    • user registration may optionally require e-mail confirmation 
    • administrator can optionally choose that all new user registrations must be approved first 
    • you can now send mass e-mails to multiple users, roles or groups 
    • improved user interface for management of large number of users with filtering and alphabetical sorter 
    • support for mixed mode authentication 
    • you can now use both Forms and Active Directory authentication together 
  • Administration UI: Extended functionality of MyDesk -> My profile. 
  • Administration UI: Asynchronous document deletion and moving. 
  • Administration UI: New information splash screen on logon dialog. 
  • Administration UI: New version of the WYSIWYG editor. 
  • Administration UI: Extended functionality in the web part zone properties. 
  • Administration UI: Extended functionality of System tables. 
  • Administration UI: Overviews where the document type, page template, product and category are used. 
  • Blogs: Bulk Approve/Reject comments functionality in MyDesk and improved comments management in Tools. 
  • Blogs: Support for blog moderators. 
  • Blogs: Support for blog post subscriptions. 
  • Blogs: Added support for tagging, categories and content rating 
  • Blogs: On-site editing is now supported for site members without access to CMS Desk 
  • Blogs: You can now ping other blogs and get trackbacks to your posts 
  • Controls: New format of inline controls macro now supports named parameters. 
  • Controls: New controls - context menu, error messages, datasources, filter, BBEditor, ... 
  • Controls: Minor improvements in localization controls from ExtendedControls. 
  • E-commerce: New web parts - N newest products, product filter 
  • E-commerce: Multiple default tax classes for department. 
  • E-commerce: Document types can be configured as product types which have enhanced functionality. 
  • E-mail engine: Support for custom subject, plain text, from, Cc and Bcc e-mail addresses in e-mail templates. 
  • E-mail engine: Enables more robust sending of e-mails. All e-mails from the system are sent through the e-mail queue and if sending fails, they are kept in the queue and can be sent later. It also allows to archive sent e-mails so that you can easily find out if some e-mail was sent or not. 
  • Event Log: The object changes can now be now logged. 
  • Event log: Easier browsing of events using Previous and Next buttons. 
  • General: New contexts for easier access to the data of current objects. 
  • General: Logon page now checks the CapsLock status. 
  • General: Minor improvements in file import module. 
  • General: All the obsolete methods from previous versions have been removed. 
  • General: Performance optimizations regarding memory consumption, amount of data selected from the database and ViewState. 
  • General: Google site map support 
  • Import/Export: Minor improvements in import/export. 
  • Messaging: Minor improvements in messaging. 
  • Content: New image editor for the attachments. 
  • Content: Content rating support. Allows site visitors to rate news, articles and any other content. 
  • Content: Image editor for the attachments. Allows content editors to resize uploaded images, convert them to another format, trim to chosen size and convert to grayscale. 
  • Newsletters: Performance improvements for large number of subscribers. 
  • Newsletters: Customizable subject in (un)subscribe templates. 
  • Output filter: Minor improvements in output filtering. 
  • Portal engine: On-click AJAX configuration of the web parts. Most web parts now support AJAX on one click. You only need to check the box Use update panel in the web part properties and the web part uses AJAX rather than classic postbacks. 
  • Reporting: Minor improvements in reporting. 
  • Security: New default (generic) roles. 
  • Security: Windows Live ID support. 
  • Settings: Improved management of settings. 
  • Staging: Minor improvements in staging. 
  • System: Administrators can now receive e-mail notification when some error is added to the event log. 
  • User contributions: Minor improvements in user contributions. 
  • Web analytics: Statistics from specific period of time can now be deleted. 
  • Web analytics: User registration statistics can now be logged. 
  • Web farms: Support for restarting of all the servers. 
  • Web parts: Improvement of many existing web parts. 
  • Web parts: News datasource and viewer webparts.

Changes:

  • Administration UI: All pages are now based on master pages.
  • Administration UI: Administration UI now uses CSS classes instead of the SkinIDs. 
  • General: Changes in filesystem and architecture to support separable modules in future versions.

Bug fixes:

  • Administration: Fixes in RTL languages layout.
  • Administration: Minor fixes in administration UI. 
  • BizForms: Image button wasn't set as default button of the form when custom layout was used. 
  • Bizforms: CSS stylesheet didn't work when bizform's layout was edited. 
  • BizForms: CAPTCHA control didn't work when the BizForm is used as a inline control. 
  • BizForms: Notification e-mail wasn't sent if recipients e-mail adresses ended with ';'. 
  • BizForms: 'UseColonBehindLabel' didn't worked on ASPX templates after postback. 
  • BizForms: Incorect links of uploaded files when a bizform from one site was used on another site. 
  • Blogs: URLs in blog comments were incorrect when inserted without 'http://'. 
  • Blogs: Minor fixes in blog comments. 
  • CMSDesk: Context menu wasn't displayed well if content tree was large and scrolled down. 
  • Content: Editable texts in PagePlaceholder with default page template didn't work at Page tab. 
  • Content: Images didn't appear occasionally during heavy load when output cache was on. 
  • Content: Content of PageTemplates properties -> Webparts couldn't be saved. 
  • Content: Moving document to another site caused an error when document name and alias had been changed before. 
  • Content: Document could be archived by user without required permissions. 
  • Content: Some links and image URLs weren't resolved on ASPX sample web sites site when output filter was switched off. 
  • Content: URLs of images from another site were incorrenct when using multiple web sites on a single domain (subfolders). 
  • Content: ID of the document custom data couldn't be used as an alias. 
  • Content: Documents restored after deletion had different NodeGUIDs than the deleted version. 
  • Content: CMSMenu tooltip didn't display special characters properly. 
  • Content: Template 'Text with side column' caused problems to editable regions in IE7. 
  • Controls: Images in submenu items didn't have the "alt" atribute. 
  • Controls: BasicTabControl caused index out of bounds exception with specific configurations. 
  • Documentation: Minor fixes in the documentation. 
  • E-commerce: Order status history wasn't up-to-date when the status was changed by custom payment provider. 
  • E-commerce: Minor fixes in permission checking in administration UI. 
  • E-mails: Minor fixes in resolving template based e-mails. 
  • File import: Minor fixes in the file import. 
  • Form controls: E-commerce form controls didn't work properly with property UseCodeNameForSelection set to true. 
  • Forums: Minor fixes in posts approval. 
  • Forums: 'Subscribe to post' link wasn't displayed when Maximum nesting level was set to 1. 
  • General: Title tag wasn't as a first tag in the head section of the page. 
  • General: Minor fixes in working with the flash files. 
  • General: Field category created in FieldEditor couldn't contain apostrophes. 
  • General: Custom security handler didn't work correctly with windows authentication. 
  • General: 'Exclude documents from search' setting didn't work if the value ended with ';'. 
  • General: Decimal numbers weren't displayed correctly for different cultures. 
  • General: Data from custom fields weren't updated in the application cache. 
  • General: Custom modules didn't appear in CMSDesk -> Tools if 'Display' permission for the module didn't exist. 
  • General: Custom data handler caused issues when working with document types and when retrieving files via GetFile.aspx. 
  • General: Some controls didn't generate valid html code.
  • General: Alias paths weren't unique if documents had names starting with the same long prefix.
  • General: Some controls were missing in VisualStudio toolbox after adding a reference to Kentico CMS API libraries.
  • General: URL rewriting didn't worked properly if extensionless and SSL were used together.
  • General: Pages inherited templates only from published pages which was causing inconsistency in design.
  • General: Default connection string was always used when using GeneralConnection.
  • General: ValidationHelper.GetDouble method didn't reflect current culture settings.
  • General: SignOut button didn't work with cookieless settings.
  • General: User role couldn't change permissions even if the role had the permission to do so.
  • General: PageInfo didn't contain proper DocumentPublishedVersionHistoryID.
  • Import/Export: Only documents of default culture version were imported to the site which had been imported before.
  • Import/Export: Importing data with attachment might cause errors.
  • Import/Export: Too long queries were generated during export, causing errors.
  • Import/Export: Imported/exported site's cultures weren't preselected correctly.
  • Newsletters: CSS stylesheet wasn't applied after uploading an attachment when editing newsletter template.
  • Newsletters: 'Send now to all subscribers' option didn't work when editing dynamic newsletter.
  • Polls: Two different polls couldn't coexist on the same page when the caching was on.
  • Scheduler: SqlDateTime overflow error appeared when date wasn't in allowed interval.
  • Scheduler: Scheduled tasks didn't run when using multiple web sites on a single domain (under subfolders).
  • Staging: Staging could work even if 'Staging service authentication' settings didn't match on source and target servers.
  • Staging: Root element was missing when synchronizing object's subtree.
  • Staging: Automatically created blog months didn't appear in the staging task list.
  • Staging: Synchronization tasks weren't logged correctly when the workflow was on.
  • Web parts: Grid webpart didn't display data of two document types which had fields of the same names.
  • Web parts: Minor fixes in Content slider webpart.
  • Web parts: Minor fixes in Flash webpart.
  • Web parts: Minor fixes in Tree view menu webpart.
  • Web parts: Site map redirected to '#' when javascript action of the menu item was used.
  • Web parts: Document pager webpart didn't have the 'Check permission' property.
  • Web parts: Minor fixes in QueryDataList webpart.
  • Web parts: Minor fixes in Lightbox webpart.
  • Web parts: Minor fixes in Google maps webpart.
  • Workflow: There was an incorrect message when document was submitted to approval.
  • Workflow: Form fields weren't validated when a document was checked-in.
  • Unigrid: Wrong item was deleted when someone else changed item order at the same moment (order status, workflow step, ...).  

August 11, 2008 - Version 3.1a

New:

  • Administration UI: HTML editor is used for editing invoice.
  • Administration UI: Link to an existing document can be created from the context menu.
  • Administration UI: New macro selector control is used to insert all possible macros to the text.
  • Administration UI: Color picker control now includes preview of the selected color.
  • Administration UI: Section summary for the pages of administration UI.
  • Administration UI: Minor improvements in all UI.
  • General: Improved output filter functionality.
  • General: All regular expressions for validation and macro resolving were optimized.
  • General: Performance optimizations for amount of data and memory consumption.
  • General: Configurable selection between standard and session authentication cookies.
  • E-commerce: Product price can be optionally displayed with or without tax.
  • E-commerce: Product option list can be now paged.
  • E-commerce: User account can be created at the same time as customer account from CMSDesk.
  • E-commerce: All currency related values can be now recalculated when changing main currency.
  • E-commerce: Tax class details can be edited when selecting tax classes for specified product.
  • E-commerce: Shopping cart process step indexes can be now optionally hidden or visible.
  • E-commerce: My Account web part tabs can be now displayed either in horizontal or vertical layout.
  • E-commerce: Shipping options are now displayed with their charge in the checkout process.
  • E-commerce: All errors while loading payment provider, payment form or checkout process step are now logged.
  • Event log: Event details can be exported to the file.
  • Event log: Events can be optionally logged to the file now.
  • Modules: Module description field was added.
  • Modules: Module permission description field was added.
  • Modules: New Display permission for all modules. Module is now hidden in tools menu when user is not granted with module display permission.
  • Newsletter: Imported users can be optionally subscribed / unsubscribed to the selected newsletters.
  • Newsletter: Email queue can be now deleted at once.
  • Scheduler: User can see how many times each task was executed.
  • Settings: Settings can be exported to the file.
  • Staging: Reject task is now generated for synchronization with target server when document is rejected.
  • Staging: Update doc task is now generated for synchronization with target server when document is moved up or down in the content tree.
  • System: Testing e-mails can be sent with attachments.
  • Web farms: Web farm synchronization tasks can be now filtered by server.
  • Web farms: Servers can be now disabled to avoid tasks logging for them.
  • Web farms: MachineName field was added to the web farm tasks.
  • Web parts: Improved scrolling text web part.
  • Web parts: Improved current user web part.

Changes:

  • General: XHTML output filter is now turned off by default on all sample web sites.
  • Web parts: Properties NestedRepeaterID and NestedDataListID were replaced by NestedControlsID property.

Bug fixes:

  • Administration UI: RTL languages layout was completely reviewed and fixed.
  • Administration UI: Some pages weren't properly handled for cross-site scripting.
  • Administration UI: Minor fixes for IE7 and FF3.
  • Administration UI: Security fixes for some UI pages
  • BizForms: Incorrect security check was applied in permission dialog.
  • BizForms: Administration of BizForm layout used too strict permissions.
  • Booking module: Event allowed negative capacity.
  • CMSDesk: Select file dialog couldn't upload file on Windows Vista.
  • CMSDesk: Document links with workflow could cause inconsistency in document tree if the document was moved.
  • CMSDesk: Notify when leaving page wasn't applied in some cases.
  • CMSDesk: Spell checker didn't work for words with some culture-specific characters.
  • CMSDesk: Published information in document properties wasn't evaluated properly.
  • CMSDesk: The document wasn't inserted on the correct position when the default order was changed from alphabetical to first.
  • Content: Metadata content wasn't properly encoded to the output HTML.
  • Content: When the image caching was on, original image could be returned instead of the resized image.
  • Content: Cached attachment wasn't removed from the cache if the attachment was updated from API.
  • Content: ASPX editable controls were losing the content with specific workflow operations.
  • Content: Copying of published document didn't include the published attachments.
  • Content: Rollback to the oldest version in version history could lose the version attachments.
  • Content: File field could lose the attachment when copying the culture version from specific language.
  • Content: When the attachment field of the document type was removed, attachments weren't deleted.
  • Content: Allowed extensions for upload fields didn't have the same format in all settings.
  • Content: Uploaded files allowed "+" sign in the filename, which couldn't be correctly processed by IIS7.
  • Content: GetFile script didn't handle the permissions correctly.
  • Controls: Editable image could cause null reference exception in specific scenarios.
  • Controls: Radiobutton list form control didn't apply some settings correctly.
  • Controls: Form control text area didn't validate the field length properly.
  • Controls: Property UseImagePath for editable image control didn't work properly.
  • Controls: Radiobutton list form control couldn't have empty default value.
  • Controls: Change password control didn't handle the Visible property correctly.
  • Documentation: Minor fixes in the documentation.
  • E-commerce: Payment methods and Shipping options weren't displayed properly in their selection.
  • E-commerce: Available amount validation could not work correctly in specific scenarios.
  • E-mails: Some e-mails contained multiple Content-Type headers.
  • E-mails: GetEmailTemplates method threw an exception.
  • File import: Files couldn't be imported to the location covered by workflow process.
  • General: Automatic import of Windows authenticated users wasn't working correctly for non-existing users.
  • General: Changing the code name of the web site could cause problems with live site if the application wasn't restarted.
  • General: Application couldn't properly start in Integrated mode of IIS7.
  • General: Culture of the live site wasn't changed correctly in some cases with full page caching configuration.
  • General: Uzbek cultures weren't defined properly.
  • General: Changing the order of items didn't clear the cached objects properly.
  • General: Localized transformations weren't cached.
  • General: Float number validation and conversion couldn't handle small numbers with exponent.
  • General: Param tag of the object element could cause incorrect HTML code when processed by output filter.
  • Import/Export: Forum posts weren't properly imported from old version package.
  • Import/Export: Custom web part categories couldn't be handled by import process in some specific cases.
  • Import/Export: Some delete tasks couldn't be processed correctly on import.
  • Import/Export: Existing site was deleted if import fails because of the existing site with the same name.
  • Import/Export: Process log couldn't work in specific scenarios.
  • Import/Export: Preselection of objects wasn't working properly when repeated.
  • Import/Export: Next button wasn't disabled in FF3.
  • Import/Export: Document fields with only field length changed weren't updated on import.
  • Newsletter: Some e-mails could use different culture for unsubscription link and for other newsletter content.
  • Newsletter: Newsletter module couldn't handle large amount of e-mails in specific scenarios.
  • Newsletter: Some e-mails were duplicated in specific scenarios.
  • Newsletter: Resend functionality wasn't working properly.
  • Newsletter: Scheduled task for the newsletter wasn't rescheduled if configuration changed.
  • Newsletter: New issue couldn't be placed to the Newsletter archive
  • Newsletter: Generation of the e-mail queue was using too many database queries.
  • Newsletter: Some newsletter pages didn't check all required permissions.
  • Newsletter: Newsletter archive didn't resolve the macros properly.
  • Output filter: Button text containing tag characters could damage the output HTML code.
  • Polls: Multiple polls couldn't work properly on the same page.
  • Polls: Incorrect security check was applied in permission dialog.
  • Portal engine: Some pages could be displayed with wrong page template in heavy load.
  • Portal engine: If the CSS stylesheet of the site wasn't set, the page generated an empty stylesheet tag.
  • Sample web sites: Minor fixes in design and HTML code of the page templates and stylesheets.
  • Scheduler: Some tasks could run two times under specific conditions.
  • SiteManager: Some Administration pages could be accessed from CMSDesk in SiteManager context.
  • SiteManager: User couldn't be deleted when he was allowed to be forum moderator.
  • SiteManager: Site culture couldn't be changed in license editions without multilingual support.
  • SiteManager: Localized transformation name couldn't be entered in transformation properties.
  • SiteManager: Document type editing pages didn't have the same length.
  • Staging: Document task didn't contain product information when the product was created from the new document dialog.
  • URL Rewriting: Some URLs weren't resolved correctly for cookieless configuration.
  • URL Rewriting: Messaging pages weren't properly excluded from URL rewriting and were logged as not existing content pages.
  • URL Rewriting: Page wasn't properly redirected in specific cases with FF browser.
  • Web analytics: Log processing couldn't handle large amount of data at once.
  • Web analytics: Returning visitors were logged only on the second visit.
  • Web farms: Too many web farm tasks or too much web farm task data could kill the application on it's start.
  • Web parts: Clone web part couldn't work with some specific web part settings.
  • Web parts: Content slider wasn't working properly if the delay time was 0.
  • Web parts: Google maps web part couldn't handle API key for both domains with and without www.
  • Web parts: Query repeater web part didn't use the Item separator property correctly.
  • Web parts: User contribution web part couldn't resolve the path properties.
  • Web parts: Language selector didn't display culture names in ASPX page templates.
  • Web parts: Date and time web part couldn't handle some format expressions.
  • Web parts: Contact and ignore list didn't use the Zero rows text property properly.
  • Web parts: Video web part wasn't working properly in FF3.

June 5, 2008 - Version 3.1

New:

  • New module: The new Messaging module allows users to send private messages.
  • CMSDesk: BizForms can now be exported as single objects.
  • Content staging: Content staging supports staging of metadata objects.
  • Web parts: New web part ForumUnsubscription.
  • Web parts: New messaging web parts (Inbox, Outbox, Send message, Contact list, Ignore list).
  • Web parts: New web part Send to friend.
  • Web parts: New web part Random products.
  • Web parts: New web part Top N products by sales.
  • Sample websites: New E-commerce site template presenting the E-commerce module capabilities.
  • Sample websites: Corporate site now contains an example of a printing page.
  • E-commerce: Newly added support for product options.
  • E-commerce: Products can now be filtered by site.
  • E-commerce: Order item price and name can be edited in existing orders.
  • E-commerce: The Organization ID/Tax registration ID can be optionally required.
  • E-commerce: User can now create document product when creating a new document.
  • Import/export: Import/export now supports incremental deployment.
  • Import/export: New, more user friendly user interface.
  • General: Culture CSS class is now included in page body class.
  • General: Kentico CMS now supports shortcut icons for web sites.
  • Web analytics: Web analytics module now supports repeated visits using IP address filtering. Users with disabled cookies can also be logged.
     
Changes:

  • CMSDesk: Both Menu items and standard documents now share the view mode in CMSDesk.
  • Administration interface: More listings with many data records now support data filtering.
  • Import/Export: Export of single object is now asynchronous.
  • Content staging: Document page template is now synchronized together with the document.
  • Web parts: General code review and minor improvements of all existing web parts.
  • Documentation: New E-commerce guide.
  • Documentation: New Users guide.
  • Documentation: New web parts overview.
  • E-commerce: Printer style for invoices now includes header and footer information for all pages.
  • Forums: Improved usability of macros.
  • Setup: Setup process is now asynchronous.
  • Newsletters: Improved usability of macros.
  • Workflow: Improved usability of macros for workflow emails.
  • General: Full page caching now reflects the browser type.
  • General: Kentico CMS can now handle upload and download of large files (up to 2GB) saved in file system.
  • Performance: Major improvements in GetFile script performance and minor optimizations in system processing.
  • Performance: Memory optimizations.

Bug fixes:

  • BizForms: Export of larger amount of BizForm data to MS Excel 2007 didn't work correctly.
  • BizForms: E-mail attachments weren't handled correctly.
  • CMSDesk: File import tool didn't import files with names containing some special characters.
  • CMSDesk: File import tool didn't save mime types correctly.
  • CMSDesk: List view didn't allow deletion of all documents after filtering.
  • CMSDesk: Sorting in the List view didn't work correctly.
  • CMSDesk: My Documents didn't display linked documents correctly.
  • CMSDesk: Settings 'Content Management New document order' didn't work correctly.
  • CMSDesk: Permissions weren't checked correctly when creating a new page.
  • CMSDesk: Update of a linked document damaged the document's name path.
  • CMSDesk: User couldn't create link to an uploaded file with apostroph in it's name.
  • CMSSiteManager: Email templates didn't reflect the site settings.
  • Content staging: Deletion of the linked documents wasn't logged.
  • Content staging: Deletion of document didn't delete Publish task for this document.
  • Controls: CMSTabControl generated wrong where conditions for database queries.
  • Controls: CMSTreeview didn't reflect the Expand/Collapse images property.
  • E-commerce: PayPal and Authorize.NET didn't work for cultures using comma as decimal separator.
  • E-commerce: Currency couldn't handle wrong format strings.
  • E-commerce: ECommerce module didn't synchronize correctly on Web farms.
  • E-commerce: Discount level wasn't applied correctly when displaying price details.
  • E-commerce: Deletion of some objects didn't handle the dependent objects correctly.
  • Booking system: Editing event attendee didn't allow email address change.
  • Booking system: Exported iCalendar file couldn't be opened in MS Outlook 2003.
  • Form user controls: Clear button in Select user form control didn't work correctly.
  • Form user controls: International number and Query selector didn't reflect the Allow empty value property of field.
  • Form user cotnrols: Country selector didn't work correctly.
  • Form engine: If validation upon regular expression failed error message was displayed for all fields using regular expression validation.
  • Form engine: Validation upon regular expression was missing for some form controls.
  • Form engine: Fields of type boolean didn't work correctly with values true/false and 0/1.
  • Form engine: DateTime fields weren't validated properly.
  • Forums: Ad-hoc forum wasn't created when user subscribed before the first thread was inserted.
  • Forums: Forum search displayed previously deleted posts.
  • Forums: Forum base URL wasn't saved when creating a new forum.
  • Forums: Forum breadcrumbs displayed differently in different view modes.
  • Forums: Deletion of forum posts didn't work correctly.
  • Newsletters: Newsletter issues were always shown in archive.
  • Newsletters: Newsletters with large amount of subscribers weren't sent correctly when application restarted or application had multiple instances.
  • Newsletters: Scheduled task wasn't deleted when dynamic newsletter was deleted.
  • Newsletters: Newsletters weren't always sent in site default culture.
  • Newsletters: Anchor links in newsletters weren't resolved correctly.
  • Portal engine: DOCTYPE page definition wasn't applied properly.
  • Portal engine: PageInfo didn't handle the IsPublished property correctly.
  • Web analytics: Campaign logging didn't work for redirected documents.
  • web analytics: Logging file downloads didn't work for files redirected to disk.
  • web analytics: Log processing wasn't thread-safe for multiple application instances.
  • Web analytics: Pie charts displayed only items with value over 5%.
  • Web analytics: The order of days might be wrong at the turn of the months.
  • Web farms: Web farm synchronization tasks weren't deleted properly.
  • Workflow: Copying documents of container type using workflow was failing.
  • Workflow: Workflow email wasn't sent after the Publish step.
  • Workflow: Workflow emails weren't always sent.
  • Workflow: When the published document was rejected, it was still published on the live site.
  • Workflow: In some cases, documents couldn't be restored from the recycle bin after the import process.
  • Workflow: When publishing a document, the message 'Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?' wasn't always shown correctly.
  • Webparts: Web parts didn't reflect the Show for document types property in Design mode view.
  • Webparts: Some viewer web parts didn't hide when the inner control was hidden.
  • Webparts: CMSMenu didn't render correctly when a submenu item had a Menu item image set.
  • Webparts: CMSListMenu didn't render correctly when submenu indicator property was set.
  • Webparts: Static text web part didn't resolve inline macros.
  • Webparts: Related documents didn't work correctly for nonpublished documents.
  • Webparts: Property Top N didn't work correctly when Check permission property was set.
  • Webparts: Properties didn't handle values dependent on culture settings correctly.
  • Webparts: Users couldn't select document type transformation from different site.
  • Webparts: The Item separator property of the Lightbox web part could not be edited.
  • Webparts: The MyAccount web part didn't allow hiding of all its tabs.
  • Webparts: Property Use server time didn't work correctly for DateTime web part.
  • Webparts: The Search results web part didn't reflect the Query string key property.
  • Webparts: The Complete search dialog web part didn't keep the filter information for ASPX templates.
  • Webparts: When the SearchDialog web part was placed after the SearchResults web part on page it didn't work correctly.
  • Webparts: Setting filter for specific culture sometimes caused hiding the New document link for User contributions list web part.
  • Webparts: The User contributions list web part displayed New document link for anonymous user in a special case.
  • Webparts: Web part files weren't created when the web part was cloned.
  • Webparts: Web part CMSMenu didn't reflect the Render image alt property.
  • Webparts: Web part SiteMap didn't reflect the Render link title property.
  • Webparts: The property Generate indentation inside link for TreeMenu web part didn't work correctly.
  • Webparts: The property Submenu indicator image for web part TreeMenu caused incorrect rendering.
  • Webparts: The Paged text web part didn't use the Path selector for Path property.
  • Webparts: The Paged text web part didn't use Site selector for SiteName property.
  • Webparts: The Paged text web part didn't reflect the 'Pager CSS class' property.
  • Webparts: In special cases the Calendar web part threw an exception when other month should have been displayed.
  • Webparts: The Forum tree web part for ad-hoc forums didn't reflect the Expanded tree property.
  • Webparts: The Forum tree web part didn't reflect the Post path property.
  • Webparts: The Similar products by sale web part didn't work correctly if property Document types was set.
  • Webparts: The Document viewer web part didn't reflect the Select top N documents property.
  • Webparts: The Forum search results web part didn't reflect the On site management property.
  • Webparts: The ShoppingCartMiniPreview control wasn't rendered correctly in ASPx templates.
  • Webparts: the Query datalist control didn't reflect the ShowFirstLast property in the ASPX templates.
  • Webparts: The DateTime web part didn't reflect the Date and Time format property correctly in ASPX templates.
  • Webparts: The option Top & Bottom was misssing for Pager position property of Document pager web part.
  • Webparts: In some special cases the Query data grid web part threw exception when Display as link property was used.
  • Webparts: The Edit contribution web part used only Simple path selector instead of Path selector.
  • Webparts: For some web part setting both Stylesheet theme and Skin ID properties caused an error.
  • Webparts: Multiple Tree menu web parts on one single page didn't work correctly.
  • webparts: The SkinID property wasn't applied correctly for web part Logon form.
  • Webparts: The Related documents web part didn't have the Order by and Where condition properties.
  • General: ASPX page templates from older versions didn't have correct page title.
  • General: Settings Combine files with default culture didn't apply correctly.
  • General: The page template header tags weren't used in some cases.
  • General: Users or search engine crawlers could get an error page when the browser didn't set the User-agent property.
  • General: In some cases, the resource strings weren't properly loaded when the application started.
  • General: Multiple linked documents could cause errors when Filter out duplicate documents was enabled in viewer controls.
  • General: GetFile didn't reflect document-level permissions and published from/to properties.
  • General: In some cases users were logged out when browser didn't keep session information in a new frame or window.
  • General: Too many WYSIWYG editors on the page could cause the browser to crash or throw a javascript error.
  • General: Data macros that weren't resolved because of missing data were resolved to their expression instead of an empty string.
  • General: Permissions for network folders weren't checked properly.
  • General: Deletion of some objects didn't delete associated meta files.
  • General: Resolving URL filter damaged AJAX response if the response contained URLs starting with ~/.
  • General: For extensionless configuration the URL rewriter wasn't able to handle URLs with query strings containing a semicolon.
  • General: ASPX extension wasn't correctly applied to the page URL in special cases and extensionless configuration.
     

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 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 {& <path></path> &} 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.

 

 
     
     
   
   
     
 

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