Sitecore releases 7.1 Update-2 (rev. 140324)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore today has released 7.1 Update-2 (rev. 140324).

Sitecore 7.1 Update-2 is a regular maintenance update which contains a few improvements and addresses a number of issues.

The main highlights of this update:

• Security vulnerability fixes to make Sitecore more secure.
• Support for running the Sitecore user interfaces in Internet Explorer 11.
• The new Media.MediaLinkServerUrl web.config setting lets you specify the server URL to use for media links

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 CMS and DMS 7.2 (Initial Release)

I am happy to announce that Sitecore yesterday released CMS and DMS 7.2 rev. 140228.

This is the intial release of CMS and DMS 7.2.

The major features and highlights in this release:

• Publishing improvements, including new features, performance improvements, user experience improvements, better configurability, and bug fixes.
• SPEAK UI framework improvements: a number of new components are available in the business component library. In addition, a number of issues have been fixed in the SPEAK UI dialogs, the underlying SPEAK UI framework, and the business component library.
• Item Bucket improvements, including user experience improvements, better configurability, and bug fixes.
• Sitecore.ContentSearch improvements, including new features, better configurability, and bug fixes.
• Multivariate testing is now configured per language.
• The Engagement Analytics logic for detecting whether a visitor is a robot has been reworked and improved.
• Support for Internet Explorer 11.
• Sitecore MVC now supports Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 5.1.

You can read more about the technical details of the publishing changes on Alex Shyba's blog at www.sitecore.net/reinnovations-blog

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!