DNN 5.1 Community and Professional Edition Out Now
First announced way back at OpenForce 2007, the first “production-ready” version of DotNetNuke 5 is now available as 5.1 Community Edition and Professional Edition. After an extensive public beta program and painful last minute performance problems, DNN Corp’s Joe Brinkman, with a clear sight of relief, announced that “hundreds of bug fixes and dozens of enhancements and new features” finally saw the light with this 5.1 release. Highly anticipated for years, content versioning and workflow mark the top of the new functionality list. DNN 5.1 also debuts different features sets for Community Edition (CE) and Professional Edition (PE) as previously roadmaped.
Plenty more DotNetNuke news and happenings next:
- Everybody I asked about the inaugural Day of DotNetNuke was beaming with excitement and praise. If you missed it like I did, check out the recap from head organizer Will Strohl himself. And if you have not already done so, listen to DNNVoice episode 9 and 10 for more Day of DNN coverage.
- Speaking of DNN 5.1, the German language pack can be found here and ERD diagrams (Visio, VisioXML and PDF) as well as a SQL spec sheet here.
- Snapsis’ CSS NavMenu and Telerik’s RadMenu are excellent DNN menu solutions for custom DNN skinning projects, but the restrictive license that these commercial providers employ makes it difficult if not impossible to take advantage of them for off-the-shelve or free skins. That void has now finally been filled by Mark Allan of DNNDoneRight.com. Mark has developed a feature-rich, flexible and search engine-friendly DNN menu that lacks nothing compared to its aforementioned rivals. Free download.
- Dylan Barber shares his views on rebuilding a site in DotNetNuke. Good start on the topic.
- Chris Cant blogs about DNN skin token support in a module. Interesting read for skinners and module developers alike.
- Eoghan O’Neill looks at ranking of DNN core modules in terms of popularity. I never thought about it, but hey, why not?
- Cuong Dang lists popular grid design resources for DotNetNuke skinning. No more excuses for table-based skins :)-
- Bruce Chapman releases a DNN 5.1 compatible version of Url Master including some nifty new features and explains how to 301 Redirect .htm or .html pages to DotNetNuke .aspx pages.
- Chris Hammond and Patrick Renner publish DotNetNuke 5 User’s Guide. Wrox just dropped a copy on my doorstep last week, so expect a closer look at the book soon.
- And finally, Vasilis Terzopoulos breathes new life into his blog with a series of advanced skinning related posts. Learn how to target specific DNN pages with CSS selectors, make your skins respond to DNN security roles, and fast forward into the future of user configurable DNN skins.
That wraps it up for this installment of DNN Friday. As always, if you’ve got quality DNN content to share, just let me know. Or, if you simply want to stay in the loop of all things DotNetNuke, subscribe to the blog feed, sign up for email updates, and follow me on Twitter. So long and happy upgrading!
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