DNN Community Edition 4.9.4 Released

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DNN Community Edition 4.9.4 Released

Posted on Fri May 22, 2009 by Tom Kraak
In: DNN Friday, DNN News, OpenForce 09 | 9 Comments

In a somewhat surprising move (at least for me), DNN Corp published yet another “minor stabilization release for the 4.x codebase.” According to Joe Brinkman, CE 4.9.4 fixes a module caching flaw and improves performance of the FormatRemoveSQL method. 2 low priority security issues were corrected as well. Besides maintaining 4.x, DNN Corp also released a public beta of DNN 5.1. Please contribute to the upcoming release by downloading, testing, and discussing the beta as well as logging bugs in the public issue tracker.

More DNN community news next:

Both Day of DNN and OpenForce North America announced speakers and sessions this week. The Day of DNN seems to provide a balanced program, while OpenForce guns for the more experienced DNN administrator and developer this year.
Shaun Walker is “back,” reflecting on the recent changes to the DotNetNuke project, the Corporation, and his involvement in it all.
Frauke Nonnenmacher blogs about module packaging for the terminally broke. Good read.
Sam MacDonald takes a first look at the new DNN admin console module shipping with the 5.1 beta.
Core team member Michael Washington releases aDefHelpDesk, a free and open source help desk module for DNN 4.4 and up.
Adding to his specialty of DNN SEO modules, Bruce Chapman releases Canonical Link Generator and Inline Link Master. For more about Bruce and iFinity Software, listen to an interview I did with him for the latest episode DNNVoice.
If you are a self-paced learner and feel most comfortable in your own 4 walls, then the new DNN DVD training series by Engage Software might be just what you are looking for.
Looks like I’m not the only fan of Ventrian News Articles for blogging on DNN. Core team alumni Patrick Santry wrote a script to help transition from the Blog module project to News Articles.
The Capital DNN user group continues to blaze the trail in regards to quality video capture of monthly meetings. Watch Will Morgenweck on DotNetNuke and social networking.
And speaking of user groups, my local CT DNN user group is hosting none other than Wrox author and Documents project lead Mitchel Sellers on advanced DNN 5 module development.

As you can see, there is lots going on in and around DotNetNuke. I’ve got a week of upgrades ahead of me while continuing to “push every button” of the 5.1 beta. What are you doing with DotNetNuke? Please share in the comments.

Comments

Monday, May 25, 2009 at 11:17 AM Mitchel Sellers says:

Great recap Tom. For me the biggest concern right now is the upgrade to 4.9.4, the caching issue WAS HUGE for my sites, as well as a few high profile clients that have a large number of pages.

Monday, May 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM Tom Kraak says:

So you've actually encountered the caching issue first hand on your sites and / or client sites?

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM Mary says:

What does this mean for 5.1? It's a beta release...I've set up my latest site on 5.1 - are the bugs that were fixed in this 4.9.4 release fixed in 5.1?

thanks!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM Kevin Baum says:

We are having a number of issues with 4.9.4 with several modules not working correctly.
we have not moved to 5.0.1 and are awaiting the s.1 release before we make the jump but with the 4.9.4 issues we may be forced to ....

Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 8:34 AM Tom Kraak says:

@ Kevin - what specific module issues are you having with 4.9.4?

Monday, June 22, 2009 at 8:00 PM Jason says:

For one, the news feed module does not show news feeds. Kinda ironic I think.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 7:59 AM Johan says:

I had a new installed site last week (DNN 4.9.4) being blank in Google again ... so the problem isn't completely sovled?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:22 AM Tom Kraak says:

@ Johan - can I take a look at your site in the Google SERP?

Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 2:53 PM Johan says:

Hi Tom
Here it is: http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=site%3Aitsupportstockholm.se&meta=&rlz=1W1GGLL_en if you check the cache version of the nr one item (www.itsupportstockholm.se/) in this list you see there is no content except headlines .... the following day I adjusted the cache value on the text/html module to 0 and there after the content is showing again ... see the default.aspx page on the dnn site (www.itsupportstockholm.se/Default.aspx) which should be exactly the same but now have content .... /Johan

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