Umbraco 4, Beta 2, Take 2

Friday, November 07, 2008 by Administrator

In the past week we’ve focused on removing serious businesslogic bugs, cross browser compatibility and polishing the UI.

Most remarkable result this week, is a reduction in back office load times of 70% compared
to Umbraco v3!

This means that any issues with backwards compatibility in the APIs are solved, we got full support for WebKit based browsers in the backend (Safari/Chrome), IE6 works again and quirks with Firefox andediting document type properties are solved.

We’ve also “leaned” the javascript library usage in umbraco, so we no longer rely on a lot of different libraries. 

At the same time we’re compressing client script files in our build process to make the umbraco UI much more lightweight – the complete size of client files have gone from 7.8mb to 287kb!

The release is available on codeplex with a full list of changes

14 comment(s) for “Umbraco 4, Beta 2, Take 2”

  1. Gravatar ImageArnold Visser Says:

    The progress in the last months, and certenly the last weeks is amazing!

    Thank you for delivering such a great product to us!

  2. Gravatar ImagePeter Gregory Says:

    Hi Guys great work!!! Be good tho if you didn't compress it on a Mac before you upload to codeplex. The zip file is full of Mac rubbish files... but other than that its great!!

  3. Gravatar ImageAmar Galla Says:

    Great work. Looking forward to trying this out soon.

  4. Gravatar ImageDag Erlandsen Says:

    Wanted to try it, but couldn't find any install instructions in the build or on umbraco.org, and the link to the "How to install" video ( http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/getting-started/installing-umbraco ) gives 404 ..

  5. Gravatar ImageJay Walker Says:

    I noticed that create packages isn't working in the 3233 beta2/take2 release. Do you have an ETA on when create packages will be working?

  6. Gravatar ImageRusty Zarse Says:

    Holy CR_P people, that's incredible! I've been waiting for v4 to reach this state for some time. I am incredibly impressed by what this post says of the codebase. I recently failed o implement SugarCRM because it became too bloated to be useful and is full of significant bugs. Umbraco has never been anything but top quality and now I know why. Thanks for the dedication and excellent work

  7. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:

    Thanks for all the feedback, we can confirm issues with creating items outside content/media areas, which is due to changes in the WebKit support. We'll fix for Fridays take 3 build.

  8. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:

    Issue is fixed and patch is easy to append to Beta 4, take 2:

    1) Open /umbraco/js/xtree.js
    2) Go to line 230 and change
    "if (parent.nodeID != this.nodeID) {"
    to
    "if (parent.nodeID != this.nodeID || parent.nodeType != this.nodeType) {"

  9. Gravatar ImageHans Sørensen Says:

    This is not a great archievement guys. This is a sign telling that something has been completely wrong before.

    But thank God it is now fixed. Looks promising.

  10. Gravatar ImageKarthik Says:

    Demos, documentations , downloads and forums on Umbraco:

    http://www.gplpedia.com/index.php?id=4&did=1

    Also checkout http://www.gplpediaslim.com

  11. Gravatar ImageKarthik Says:

    Demos, documentations , downloads and forums on Umbraco:

    http://www.gplpedia.com/index.php?id=4&did=1

    Also checkout http://www.gplpediaslim.com

  12. Gravatar Imagevictorantos IT contractor UK Says:

    Is it safe to use this version in production? :)

  13. Gravatar ImageDmitry Says:

    Where is the FORUM????? http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_topics25_Umbraco-4-Issues.aspx

  14. Gravatar ImageBachelor Degree Says:

    Yeah, IE6 could be really frustrating for coders.
    Hmmm...

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