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!