Sitecore Development / Kim Hornung

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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!

Monday, November 05, 2012

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  • The Rich Text Editor has been updated to a newer version of the Telerik components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!