After more than six months of development we've finally released
JUNO aka Umbraco
version 4.6 - our biggest maintenance release ever. It's a huge
leap forward and if we haven't been so conservative with our
version numbering and if the number 5 wasn't reserved already, it's
a release that certainly deserves a bigger number increment.
The focus in 4.6 is two-fold - making it easier to get started
with Umbraco and make it a pleasure to stay. The first is covered
through a new installer, new starter
kits, a brand new skinning engine and new
default dashboards to guide you after the install.
The latter through loads of TLC; with more than 200 bug
fixes and loads of love and polish,
Umbraco 4.6 is a pleasure to work with and really a testament to
how our "Sustainable Idealism" philosophy allows us to add much
more resources to the core development.
Over the next weeks we'll cover lots of the improvements in
Umbraco 4.6, among others:
- Improved installer experience
- Updated Starter Kits (Simple, Blog, Personal, Business)
and Beautiful, free, customizable skins included
- Default dashboards and new config options for your own
dashboards
- Skinning engine and Skin customization
- Support for Microsoft SQL CE 4.0
- Support for Microsoft Razor Syntax
- Much easier creation and configuration of custom data
types
- Polish of the new logout mechanism (a login modal instead of a
js alert to ensure that you can continue work without loosing
data
Until then, go test Umbraco 4.6 for yourself. It's available
directly in Microsoft
WebMatrix (more on that later), Microsoft
Web Gallery or from Codeplex.