On behalf of the fabulous core team, I'm happy to announce that take 3 of Umbraco 4 beta 2 is out.
In the past week we’ve focused on updating the tinymce3 implementation (the richtext editor), maturing the LiveEditing as well as various usability improvements in the template section.
Most notable is that macros are back in tinymce and working better than ever. You can also add more than one tinymce editor to a tab now and we’ve upgraded tinymce to the latest version which means that it works flawlessly with IE8 as well. We’ve also added two new buttons in the template editor to make it easier to understand relationships between content and contentplaceholder controls.
LiveEditing has also matured and is so stable now that we’ve added a new contextmenu item on every
content node that enables liveediting with a single click.
With this take 3 we’re very close in having all features completely implemented and this means we’ll soon be able to release the Release Candidate. It’s a matter of one or two takes more.
There are still areas that doesn’t visually look as good as we want them to, but in this take we’ve been
focusing on getting the functionality in place and move improved icons, styling and copywriting to the next take.
Download at Codeplex and keep the feedback coming in the forums (if in doubt what's going on), in the issue tracker (if you're sure something is not as it should be) or in the comments. The more feedback, the faster the final release.
Get testing!