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DotNetNuke 5.0 Finally Here 

Posted on Wed Dec 24, 2008 by Tom Kraak
In: DNN Friday, DNN News | 4 Comments

In an unexpected move, the DNN team commemorated the projects 6th anniversary with a double header: 4.9.1 and the highly anticipated 5.0 release are available for download now. According to Joe Brinkman, DNN 4.9.1 is first and foremost a stabilization release even though “a few small enhancements including the new [Admin] dashboard” page have been backported from the 5.0 code branch. From here on forward though, all development efforts will be focused on the “next generation” 5.x code base.

DNN 5.0, also known as codename Cambrian, has been in the works for over a year and forms the base for extensive new functionality first announced at OpenForce 2007. Major new features available now include out-of-the-box jQuery support, total decoupling of Admin pages and modules, support of manifest files for a variety of extensions beyond modules such as skins, skin objects, containers, and providers, as well as “deny permissions” and client-side widgets.

I will elaborate on DNN 5 and all of its goodness here on the blog starting in January or you may follow me on Twitter as I’m sure more details on the latest DNN releases will slowly trickle in.

Now on to the rest of the news, which certainly has seen better days on this blog. Let’s rinse and repeat one last time for this year.

And that’s it for the year from me. Thanks for reading, subscribing, and commenting on the Seablick blog in 2008. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!




Comments

Vasilis Monday, December 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM Vasilis says:

My best wishes to everybody!

I think should be mentioned that DNN 5, although out of beta, does not seem to be ready for production. There are some serious issues reported at the official DNN forums especially from those who tried an upgrade. I spent some time with a clean install locally and even that has several issues. So we better wait for the next release before we try DNN 5 for production.

Jason Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 10:26 PM Jason says:

Very helpful article and I have had a chance to try DNN5.0 myself. Works like a charm. Thank all!

Stephen Parlow Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 10:33 PM Stephen Parlow says:

I myself would like to thank mitchelsellers.com blog, which has shared in-depth articles about instaling and configuring the DNN5.0. Since this is the first time for me to install DNN, I found some problems, which are eventually resolved by reading the mitchelsellers.com blog.

Surprisingly, when I try to host this application, I do not need to worry at all with the installation as my current host (http://www.asphostdirectory.com) provides me a direct installation via the control panel. WOW! I am just paying $3.99/month and I get this marvellous service.

I am now more interested in setting up modules within the DNN and hopefully, mitchelsellers.com blog will help me again. Thanks, again Mitchell!

Tom Kraak Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 11:03 PM Tom Kraak says:

Thanks guys.

@ Stephen - let me know what topics you would like to see covered in regards to "setting up modules" and I'll do my best to blog about it.

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