Sitefinity 4.x Internal Releases for Developers Only

Hello everyone,

The weekly release of Sitefinity has been made available for download on all client accounts. Note that from now on those releases will be developers only. This means that there will be no backward compatibility for those releases if you upgrade your website to any of the internal releases. The purpose of the internal releases will be to keep you updated with any roadblocks in the API that prevents you from extending your Sitefinity project. That is why, the internal releases are marked as "Developers only".

Please find the release notes for 1/21/2011 version 4.0.1110.0 below:

THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

The fixes and new things in this release are:

•     Adding new language version from Page edit results in a wrong back link.
•     Inserting an image or video from your computer and publishing the item in Chrome results in exception.
•     Duplicating a page and changing its parent page results in message "You cannot save your changes, because a page with such URL already exists. Change the page URL and try again".
•     Improved performance on the Pages screen.
•     Mispelled word in the Login Screen.
•     Improvement of the cache.
•     Ability to edit backend templates.
•     Added extended info and logging of handled exceptions in the error log.

Hello everyone,

The weekly release of Sitefinity has been made available for download on all client accounts. The release notes for 1/28/2011 features the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Saving ContentBackendList in Settings>Configurations throws an error "Cannot create an instance of Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Backend.Elements.Config.WidgetElement because it is an abstract class."
• Creating a new event has the default end date 10 years from now.
• Publishing sometimes causes Return code 0 error.
• If you don't select any version on Revision History or select more than 2 and click on the Compare button, js error "clientLabelManager is not defined" is shown instead of a friednly message.
• Misspelled word in Basic Settings>Comments >'What filelds should contain the form for posting comments?
• Misspelled word in  Administrations>Permissions>Search and Indexing - 'Module prodiver:'
• Sitefinity navigation is not working when used in Design Page template.
• Advanced Configuration VirtualPathSettings doesn't work.
• While creting a new child category and selecting a parent you get an empty list of categories.
• Opening a user from the LdapUsers throws an exception.
• Creating a template from scratch and then changing its base to master page throws a "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: g" exception.
• Accessing Pages>Navigation>Preview results in You are not authorized to access this page.
• Using navigation with all pages throws 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' exception.
• Certain code into content box for example <p style="width:12px> &nbsp </p> will break SF.
• Clicking "All blogs" on Edit blog posts screen results in "There is no configuration for data provider with the name of "OpenAccessDataProvider/,OpenAccessDataProvider"..."
• Editing a backend template results in "The selected theme could not be found: Basic" exception.
• Editing a backend template and adding some control on the top results in "Sequence contains more than one matching element" exception.
• Page layout hides content from layout controls added to the page.
• Replace an image button is added.
• Link "revision history" is hidden at the frontend and backend templates.
• Included a warning message that the upgrade is started while upgrading from the Project Manager
• When adding another language version of a page which is a child of a split page and selecting "Create and go to add content" automatically redirects you to "Start from scratch edit screen"
• Language selector control does not have "lang" attribute.
• Summary of news widgets is cut off.
• Navigating to Design-> Page Templates and clicking on page templates results in "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.
• CommentsBox has CssClass incorrectly set on the hyper link / public properties.
• Labels in the LoginForm cannot be changed.

Hello everyone,

The weekly release of Sitefinity is now available for downloading from your accounts. The release notes for the internal build 1141 features the following improvements and bug fixes:

New:

• Add "Restore to default template" functionality

Fixes:

• Minor changes to the labels in Videos & Document sections, Upload Buttons
• Adding or removing users doesn't update the users counter in the filters "By Roles" and "Roles"
• The order of CSS files loading is reversed. Now the loading order is - RadControls, Themes, Widget CSS files.
• Workflow statuses cannot be changed for items uploaded through front-end widgets
• Navigation to group pages without child pages results in server error
• Pages templates - Changing template's title drops its base template
• The default SitefinityWebApp.csproj includes the Workflow files that were removed from the project. References are now fixed
• Creating child category adds "(not translated)" to the category name in Mono-Lingual mode
• Changes to Navigation Controls are not applied after changes of Navigation Type
• Can't access Backend Templates after upgrade from official (1098) to latest internal (1131)
• Content Modules - publish an item using More actions > Publish produces "commandName is not defined" error
• Dropping Style Sheet Manager control on a Sitefinity page causes an error - "Object does not match target type"
• Preview page with one content block throws a server error
• Editing a template produces unnecessary button - "Settings"

The internal weekly release is available for download. Here is what is included in this release:

Pages

• On the public pages changed the ordering of the CSS links in the head tag to be to:

1. Rad controls files,
2. themes files,
3. Files added via CSS widget

• Fixed issue template loosing relationship to base template when it is renamed
• Added "Restore to default template" functionality
• Fixed server error when accessing a Group Page that has no Child pages. Standard Error pages show now
• Fixed error appearing on preview of a page with one content block

Widgets

• Fixed problem with Navigation type not updated

Content

• Fixed error "commandName is not defined" showing when the user clicks on More actions menu and Publish

Administration

• Editing "Default Backend Template" in Backend Pages results in error "Sequence contains more than one matching element"

Users and Permissions

• Fixed issue with filter by roles count and roles not updated when users are deleted/created
• Pages, Content – added proper message when user with no permissions to delete tries to delete locked item/page

Approval Worklow

• Fixed issue with user not able to edit the status of image/video/document when these have been uploaded through the editor of the page

 Sitefinity Project

• Removed the workflow folder reference in the SitefinityWebApp.csproj, included the Configuration folder

Hi all,

There is a new internal release - 4.0.1238.0 - the bits are already available in your account.

THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

Hi all,

Sitefinity 4.1.1367.0 Internal build is released and ready to be downloaded from your account. It fixes number of issues reporeted from you since 4.1. version.

NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

What's included in this release:

Upgrade related

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

Pages

• Reordering of pages is not updated in backend and Navigation Widget (PITS)
• Templates: Updating a template is not reflected on the page until the page is republished (PITS)
• In option This page redirects to another page changes made to Open this link in a new window checkbox are not properly applied (PITS)
• Changing group page to normal page causes error
• Title & Properties: Checking Allow multiple URLS causes error (PITS)
• Title & Properties: Saving changes to title and properties of a group page produces no result (PITS)
• Title & Properties>Advanced Options: properties under Caching options are shown twice (PITS)

Permissions

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

Content

• News: Summary longer than 255 characters is trimmed without a warning
• Events: Subsequent edits of Location and Contact information cannot be made
• Shared Content Block: Deleting the ID property in widget Advanced mode causes error

Images, Videos, Documents and Files

• Image Widget: Reordering of images in album is not applied in Thumbnail view (PITS)
• Adding second provider causes errors when uploading files

Widgets

• Navigation Widget: In option Custom selection of pages entering a page URL and clicking on the Add button results in error (PITS)
• Editor> Image Manager and Image Widget: the selection of image is lost upon clicking on 'Insert the image', image link show as src="#Link.Not.Resolved#?Status=Master" (PITS, PITS)

Other

• User Profiles: Custom fields added to a profile type cannot be selected to be displayed/edited in the Profile widget template (PITS)
• Login page: Title updated to show 4.1 and not 4.0 (PITS)
• Multilingual Support> Content Block: Inserting a link to documents shows option to link to the files in the default culture only

Hi all,

Sitefinity 4.1.1405.0 Internal build is released and ready to be downloaded from your accounts.

NOTE: UPGRADES FROM THIS RELEASE TO THE NEXT OFFICIAL RELEASE WILL BE SUPPORTED.

What's included in this release:

• Content Block> Document Manager: Attaching a file which contains "+" in its name causes error (PITS)
• Page> Layout Editor: Editing a column class adds an empty space in the beginning of the class value (PITS)
• Pages>Content Block>Table: Clicking on “Style Builder” causes error (PITS)
• Pages> Content Block: Anchor tag to the href attribute cannot be added to a link inserted to a Sitefinity page (PITS)
• Widgets> Download list:  Paging is not applied correctly
• Widgets: Problem with server side event binding of RadGrid (PITS)
• Widgets> In IE9 inserting a field in widget template results in error (PITS)
• Permissions: Widget permissions are not applied (PITS)
• User Profiles: Deleting admin user currently logged results in error
• Multilingual Support: When site culture is set to Turkish in IIS, users cannot login

Regards,
Sitefinity Team

Hi,

Please find the release notes for Internal Build 4.1.1426.0 below:

THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

What’s New

• Files> File Manager: Added configuration option for setting the upload file size to Settings> Advanced>System> FilesModule (PITs)
• Images, Videos, Documents and Files: Performance optimizations in the upload of large files
• Page Title is set with the Content Item title automatically (SEO). This can be changed from the Page configuration. Possible Values are - Replace, Append, Do Nothing. This option is useful in case you want your page title to be dynamic, and based on the content item which is currently displayed on that page

What’s Fixed

• Pages: HTML included in the <head> tag (except title, keywords, description) is not saved (PITs)
• Pages: Parent page containing child pages can be deleted (PITs)
• Pages>Revision history: Clicking on “Back to revision history” takes user to Pages and not to Revision history screen
• Pages> Permissions: Users cannot be granted view permissions for selected pages only (PITs)
• Pages> Permissions:  Users granted permissions to edit only selected pages cannot access the backend section Pages (PITs)
• Pages>Permissions: Upon creating a child page backend user who is not administrator sees message "You are not allowed to modify this page" (PITs)
• Design> Page Templates:  Upon click on "Back to Templates" user sees incorrect popup message:  “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? …” (PITs)
• Navigation Widget:  Selecting display option “All sibling pages of currently opened page” shows all child pages and not the siblings
• Content: Filtering by category and tag in the backend doesn’t produce correct results (PITs)
• Content:  When an item’s publication is scheduled, stopped from scheduling, and then scheduled again, an exception is thrown (PITs)
• Users>Profile types:  Attempt to create a custom profile and associate a Date and time field  to it results in error upon Save
• Configurations: Some of the config files are saved every time the application is initialized even if there are no changes in them
• Settings> Pages: Output Cache Settings are obsolete and should not show
• Multilingual Support: When the domains are set as somedomain.lang1 and somedomain.lang2,  attempt to select a language in the language selector widget results in error
• Licensing: User can’t republish a page once the page limitation in the license is reached

Hello all,

There will not be an internal build this week. 

Hello all,

Sitefinity team has just released an internal build - 4.1.1585.0 - which contains the first preview of the Migration Module.

THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

We have posted the Release notes and general information on this release in the Sitefinity 4.x: Migrating from 3.x to 4.x thread. The post can be read here.

Hello,

We have just rolled out a new internal build - 4.2.1679.0. 

THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

Release Notes

This Internal build improves the migration for Pages, Libraries and News. As a result of popular demand, Sitefinity 3.x .NET3.5 is now supported. There are number of bug fixes and improvements in Sitefinity as well.

Full list of changes:

What's New in the Migration Module

Pages
- Assemblies for Sitefinity 3.x .NET3.5
- Migrating Pages keeping their original and additional URLs with their extensions
- Migrating Pages and keeping their advanced settings from 3.7 - Caching options, head tags, Indexing options, SSL, ViewState
- Migrated Pages now appear published (used to be drafts before)

Metafields
- MetaData migration – Migrating 3.x metadata - metafields and values.Definitions of 4.x are updated, so the 3.x fields are visible in 4.x backend. Currently  implemented for blog posts, news & libraries.

Improvements in the Migration Module

Libraries
- Libraries migration improvements – bug fixes, better handling for image links and urls in content items.

Other
- Dates handling improvements
- The user is now notified when some of the selected modules for migration has been disabled in 3.7
- The user is now notified that the migration module does not support migration of multilingual projects if the 4.x is not configured to contain the same languages.
- Added "Test Connection” and “Check items count in module to migrate” functions
- The migration log is now visible in an auto-scroll window
- Stability fixes

Sitefinity Fixes and Improvements
- Pages: Different Pages extensions can be added via API
- Feeds: Blogs (but not blog posts) in feeds do not have links
- Feeds: Content Ordering in the inbound pipes fixes
- Feeds: Creating a feed results in "String was not recognized as valid DateTime" error
- Feeds: Exception might be thrown in some cases when accessing RSS feed
- Workflow: batch operations fixes
- Libraries: BlogStorageChoiceField does not hide disabled choices
- Libraries: Blog streaming fixes
- Libraries: LibrarySelector.js - JavaScript fixes
- Performance: Improvements to HtmlParser
- Performance: Improvements in the Licensing Checks
- Content Lifecycle fixes

Hi all,

Sitefinity 4.3.1926.0 Internal build is released and ready for download in your accounts. It introduces many new features in the Migration Module.

THIS IS A DEVELOPERS VERSION ONLY, BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR YOUR DATABASE WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED WITH FUTURE VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T UPGRADE YOUR PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE WITH THIS RELEASE. USE ONLY TO TEST THE LATEST FUNCTIONALITY AND REMOVE ROADBLOCKING BUGS SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WRITING YOUR CODE. THUS IT IS SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY. 
 

What’s Fixed

• Images: Uploading an image reduces the size and quality of the file

What’s New in "Migration Module 3.7 to 4.x"

• Users are migrated with their original passwords
• Introduced a new membership provider in 4.x that supports the default 3.7 authentication

• The following membership settings are migrated:  “hashAlgorithType”, “passwordFormat” and “requiresUniqueEmail”

• Generic content: Implemented migration. Shared Generic Content in 3.7 is migrated as Content Block Widget associated to a shared Content Block Item in 4.x.

• Image: Implemented migration of the widget and its association to image library
• List Display control:  Enabled migration of the widget and selected list items setting
• Bloggers list: Implemented migration
• Image gallery, Download list, News view, Blog posts, Events view: Implemented migration of the widgets and their common settings - paging, items per page, and comments.
• Specific settings are migrated for the widgets below:  
  • Image gallery: selected library, gallery template mode
  • Download list: selected library
  • News view: selected categories
  • Blog posts: selected blogs
• Navigation: Implemented migration of Site Menu, Site Panelbar, Site Tabstrip, Site Treeview, Dynamic hyper link, and Hyperlink modes
• Search box: Implemented migration of the widget, result page and word indexing mode
• Search results: Implemented migration
• News archive & Blog archive: Migrated as Archive widget in Sitefinity 4.x.

Content

• Blogs, Lists: Enabled migration of blogs and lists owners

Known Issues

• Migration of user profiles is not supported yet