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• The Rich Text Editor has been updated to a newer version of the Telerik components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