Earlier today Georgi Chokov announced the release of Sitefinity 3.7 on the official Sitefinity blogs. The primary focus of this release was the inclusion of the Q2 release of RadControls. However, after reading the release notes, I was delighted to see how many items the team snuck into this minor release. Download this release and check out the upgrade notes.
Here are the release notes:
Release Highlights
Wiki module
- Wiki Module for managing Wikis is now part of the Standard and Community versions. You can find its documentation in the User Manual.
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2009
- The latest RadControls are now shipped with Sitefinity
2 new site templates
- Community Summer and Company Inspiration
Group Operations
- Group Operations for Generic Content based modules (Move/Delete content items)
New Social Bookmark buttons
- Twitter is added to the social toolbar
Domain to Page Mapping
- Map a domain to a specific page.
What’s Fixed
Images and Documents
- Performance optimizations in Libraries - Lazy loading of items for lower memory consumption
- Thumbnail resize algorithm improved, there are no borders now
Newsletters
- Emails with special characters in FirstName, LastName can now receive newsletters
- Newsletter sending hangs
- "Unsubscribe" link in a newsletter improvements
Polls
- Color picker issue with more than 8 questions is now fixed. Using the RadControls color picker now
Localization
- Javascript errors fixed if the localization resources contain special characters
- Language Dropdown when localization is set to QueryString is now working properly
- Special characters in the ALT tag of images in RadEditor produces unreadable fonts
- redirectToHomePage option fixed when used the localization is enabled
- View and Create permissions for different language versions
Sitefinity controls
- "Collection was modified" error in ContentView based controls
- EventsView - Expandable List mode - formatting icons fixes
- EventsView - Expandable List mode - javascript issues fixes
- Dynamic Hyper Link control - fixed an error when you set navigate URL address with http
- Site Menu - LastExpandLevel property now works correctly
- Spam Protector improvements
- Forums Controls could now be customized through the resource files
- Password recovery control "Your attempt to retrieve your password was not successful. Please try again" issue
Other fixes
- Link Manager dialog now shows the correct language version
- Sitefinity Template parses improvements
- News RSS feeds respect the Publication Date now
- Pages External URL validators updated to accept # character
- Social Bookmarks - fixes in the services urls
Known Issues
Wiki
- Localization and additional providers are not supported
- WikiView cannot work with custom configured query string keys
Images and Documents
- Upload of large files in zip files issues
- Localization is not supported
Sitefinity controls
- Filter Expresion property is not implemented for CategoryTree control
