Sitecore releases CMS and DMS 7.0 Initial Release

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 130424.

This is the intial release of CMS and DMS 7.0.

The main highlights in this release are:

• Support for storage of large numbers of content items in item buckets.
• Content tagging and content faceting.
• A new Sitecore.ContentSearch namespace that contains new indexing and search APIs.
• New search screens for content authors in the Content Editor, Page Editor, and in many dialog boxes.
• Data sources improvements.
• Support for running Sitecore on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the new features, improvements and fixes in this release.
• The downloads and updates page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the release.

Happy coding!

Sitecore releases 6.6.0 Update-5 (rev. 130404)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 6.6.0 Update-5 (rev. 130404).

Sitecore 6.6.0 Update-5 is a regular maintenance update which contains a number of improvements and addresses a number of issues.

The main highlights in this update are:

• Support for running the Sitecore user interfaces in Internet Explorer 10.
• User Manager improvements and fixes.
• A number of potential security vulnerability issues have been resolved.
• A number of performance counter issues have been resolved.
• A number of Engagement Analytics issues have been resolved, including filtering robots in the Executive Insight Dashboard.

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the improvements and fixes in this update
• The update page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the update.

Happy coding!

Sitecore releases 6.6.0 Update-4 (rev. 130214)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 6.6.0 Update-4 (rev. 130214).

Sitecore 6.6.0 Update-4 is a regular maintenance update which addresses a number of issues.

The main highlights in this update are:

• Resolves an important issue in 6.6 Update-3 related to attaching/detaching media to versioned media
• A number of Engagement Analytics and Engagement Automation fixes
• IIS Integrated pipeline mode fixes
• Resolves a number of situations where the "Do you want to save the changes to the item?" dialog box appeared, despite the user not having modified the item
• Resolves a number of issues related to security permissions and uploading
• Rich Text Editor fixes

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the improvements and fixes in this update
• The update page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the update.

Happy coding!

Sitecore releases 6.6.0 Update-3 (rev. 130111)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 6.6.0 Update-3 (rev. 130111).

Sitecore 6.6.0 Update-3 is a regular maintenance update with contains several improvements and addresses a number of issues.

The main highlights in this update are:

• The Executive Dashboard features two new reports: "Channel Performance" and "Campaign Performance".
• Ability to view known users in engagement plan states in the Supervisor and the Monitor.
• Virtual user fixes and improvements.
• Item cloning fixes.
• Performance improvements for full publish operations in multi-instance setups and for item access on sites with complex security configuration.

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the improvements and fixes in this update
• The update page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the update.

Happy coding!

Sitecore releases 6.6.0 Update-2 (rev. 121203)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 6.6.0 Update-2 (rev. 121203).

Sitecore 6.6.0 Update-2 is a regular maintenance update with contains several improvements and addresses a large number of issues.

The main highlights in this update are:

• A large number of multibrowser issues have been resolved.
• The Page Editor now supports more link types than internal links in "General Link" fields.
• In CMS 6.6, the logging in of virtual users did not work as expected.
• Various issues in the CMS and DMS have been resolved.

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the improvements and fixes in this update
• The update page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the update.

Happy coding!

Sitecore releases 6.6.0 Update-1 (rev. 121015)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 6.6.0 Update-1 (rev. 121015).

Sitecore 6.6.0 Update-1 is a regular maintenance update with addresses a number of issues.

The main highlights in this update are:

• The Sitecore login page now contains a meta tag that prevent robots from indexing its contents
• Page Editor fixes and improvements
• You can no longer delete the wrong content item in the Content Editor by mistake
• Bugfixes related to using engagement automation actions

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the improvements and fixes in this update
• The update page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the update.

Happy coding!

Sitecore releases 6.6.0 Initial Release

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 6.6.0 rev. 120819.

This is the intial release of CMS and DMS 6.6.0.

The main highlights in this release are:

• Improved Executive Insight Dashboard
• Device Simulator
• Page Preview service
• Native MVC support
• Page Editor improvements
• Sitecore is now using Lucene.NET 2.9.4
• Support for SQL Server database mirroring
• The Rich Text Editor has been updated to a newer version of the Telerik components
• Ability to restore individual versions from the Archive and Recycle Bin
• Dictionary enhancements
• The setup.exe now defaults to use .NET 4.0 for application pools, and supports enabling Sitecore MVC
• Issues resolved by 6.5 Update-5 have now been merged to 6.6.

Everything is already available on SDN, including:

• The release notes which describes the improvements and fixes in this update
• The update page which contains download links for the full distribution, as well as instructions for updating existing Sitecore solutions to the update.

Happy coding!