Before Christmas, we put up RC 1 - our first
build of the "last mile to 5.0" process, so to speak. That was just
under three weeks ago, meaning about 1.5 weeks of "official"
working time for many, but the community have already put in a
brilliant effort and we've got a lot of useful issues resolved.
To get the latest fixes in the hands of people who might not be
following the code repository or using nightlies, we thought we'd
put up an RC 2.
There's a
fairly long list of fixes / changes that were possible in time for
the RC 2. The list is available on our new issue tracker,
YouTrack, which so far is proving very popular; we've had a lot of
really useful reports - please keep them coming. There's even a great pull request in there too, not bad for
the first week in January!
You can
download the build from the CodePlex page
here.
Upgrading from RC 1:
- Backup your existing site (of course!) and for good measure,
keep a copy of your Hive connection string config at
/App_Data/Umbraco/HiveConfig/web.config
- Backup any other config files in /App_Data/Umbraco/Config to
which you've made any changes (Hive, Trees, etc), as well as the
root Web.config file
- Copy over the /Bin, /Areas and /App_Plugins/Core folders and
the root Web.config file from the downloaded zip
- Restore the config files you backed up
If you have been developing packages or plugins, and you
encounter any type-load issues, please flush your temporary ASP.NET
files and let us know on the issue tracker.
We'll continue to work hard to get critical bugs and performance nailed for our first
production release of Umbraco 5.0 in the next few weeks. Thanks
again to all who are helping us get there!