DotNetNuke 5.0 RC1
Earlier today, DotNetNuke
hit another milestone with the release of DotNetNuke 5.0.0 RC1. RC1 is
our first stable DotNetNuke 5.0.0 release and represents a feature
complete version of the 5.0 platform. From here on out we will be
focused on fixing bugs and ensuring that any performance issues are
resolved. While it is true that DotNetNuke 5.0 represents a
substantial change from 4.8.x, many of the updates in 5.0 were back
ported to the recent 4.9 release. Below is list of highlights for this
release which were not included in 4.9.0.
Major Highlights
- Added jQuery
support to the core platform. jQuery will now be distributed as part
of the DotNetNuke installation and will be available for use by module
developers.
- Added support for Internet Explorer 8 Web
Slices. Administrators can configure any module to use IE8 Web Slices
including the ability to set time-to-live and expiration values.
- Removed
distinction between admin modules and pages and normal pages. This
allows administrators to easily delegate access to any portion of the
application to any group of users.
- Updated the
installation services to support manifest files for all extension
types. Now skins, containers, providers and modules are all first
class citizens that can be installed and uninstalled.
- Expanded XHTML, WCAG and ADA compliance.
- Refactored
core to improve support for Unit Testing. Refactored several core
classes to use interfaces and added a simple component factory to
provide dependency injection support.
- Added ability to
deny permissions in the permissions grid. This new feature extends the
permission framework to give administrators greater flexibility in
defining permissions.
- Added Widget framework. The new
Widget framework allows you to quickly add JavaScript/html widgets to
your site with very little effort. The framework supports the use of a
simple object tag based representation which means you don’t have to
know JavaScript in order to add the widgets.
- Added new
Object notation for using skin objects in Skins. Skin designers will
no longer need to include separate XML files when creating and
packaging skins. No more funky “[SKINOBJECT]” tags littering your
html. This significantly simplifies the process of creating skins and
further opens up skin development to a broader group of designers. If
you include a simple JavaScript reference in your HTML skin, you can
even get a full WYSIWYG experience when designing your skin.
In addition to these highlights there are literally hundreds of bug fixes in this release.
RC1 is not yet production ready and there may still be some breaking changes between RC1 and the final release.
Taken from Joe Brinkman's blog.