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Security Scare Prompts Release of DNN 4.8.3 

It’s been an interesting week to say the least. A week in which “always glad to help” took on a whole new meaning. I deliberately won’t go into further details about the security scare that rocked the DNN community in the last few days as you’ve probably wasted too much time and popcorn on it already. The bottom line is that there is no need to lose sleep over the issue from now until DNN 4.8.3 is scheduled to be released early next week. Let’s see if we actually got some work done besides dealing with greed and deceit:

• Mitchel Sellers was finally promoted to Team Lead on the Documents project. I can’t think of a better developer to drive the module forward. Congrats Mitch!
• Bruce Chapman highlights 7 Features DotNetNuke developers must implement in their DotNetNuke Modules to be considered search engine optimized. Bruce is slowly but surely becoming the “must go to” authority when it comes to SEO friendly DNN module development and there is nobody that appreciates his efforts more than I do.
• Phil Haack is back on .NET Rocks! As a newly appointed Microsoft employee, Phil talks about his role as a manager of the ASP.NET Model View Controller project and hints on MVC features such as “hackable” URLs and more control over the (X)HTML emitted by ASP.NET. That’s music in the ears of SEOs working on Microsoft’s web platform. Phil also mentioned that a new release of Subtext is indeed imminent.
• Out of the box, DNN currently provides only minimal support for multi-language websites, but that does not mean it can’t be done. Here is a comprehensive guide for building DNN multi-lingual portals that you don’t want to miss. Well done DV!

As with any software product, this wasn’t DNN’s first security vulnerability and it won’t be its last. However, the DotNetNuke Security Task Force years ago outlined policies and guidelines that clearly address how to deal with security related bugs. Let’s stick to them!

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