Overview
With a few configuration changes, you can now install Umbraco without having to click through the installer. This new feature goes under the name unattended installs and was developed, in part, to help make the installation experience for our Umbraco Cloud products easier and faster. It certainly has use cases for on premises installations as well and it’s great to see the excitement around this feature.
To enable unattended installs you need to:
When you boot the site we'll check if the database is empty (has no tables) and if it is, the database schema and default data will be created.
You will not be able to login to Umbraco since no password has been set for the default user, you either need to have an external login provider configured or set the password programmatically.
You can read more about how this works in the Unattended Install documentation.
This opens up for adding unattended upgrades in a future release (currently targeted for Umbraco 8.12), which means you can run upgrades on production sites without having to log in to the backoffice - Massive win!
The A11Y accessibility team is continuously adding valuable updates to make Umbraco more accessible to everyone using the backoffice. This time around Jan Skovgaard has added 5 improvements and fixes - H5YR Jan 🙌
A new property action has been added for the MNTP property editor. This allows editors to remove all picked items in one go.
This is a great bit of functionality courtesy of Kenneth Jacobsen. He has cheekily promised to add this for other pickers if this was accepted - We look forward to it 😃 H5YR!
With Umbraco 8.11 you now have the ability to change the logo on the backoffice login screen. This has been done in some cases in the past for various reasons but was only possible by overriding the CSS. It is now supported via a new setting in the UmbracoSettings config file: loginLogoImage
Thanks for adding a more standardised way of achieving this - Great work Patrick DeMooij 🙌
There are a ton more fixes and improvements in large part thanks to community efforts and Hacktoberfest 2020 (see below).
There is a new bugfix that has been added since the release candidate relating to using the “Allow varying by culture” feature on a composition. This had the very much unintended effect of deleting field content and has now been fixed - Thanks to SouthCentralCode for reporting the issue.
There are also considerable performance enhancements made to Examine when indexing nodes with Public Access restrictions. The performance issues were due to a memory leak and have now been addressed. Huge thanks to Martin Rhodes for raising the issue that led to the discovery of this.
Of the 50 bug fixes and feature additions in 8.11.0, 40 of them have been contributed by the community created by 23 unique contributors. We have included 23 contributions that came in during this year’s Hacktoberfest.
We’re welcoming 5 brand new contributors who have made their first pull request for Umbraco-CMS, they’re marked with stars below. Welcome to the contributor club fhatrifork, Büşra, vidyesh-phases, Martin and Maikel! 🏅
Speaking of Hacktoberfest, we’ve posted a comment for each Hacktoberfest contributor on their Hacktoberfest PRs last October. We’re now ready to ask for your t-shirt 👕 size or your preference on foregoing a reward to let us plant a tree 🌳 on your behalf instead. Check your email for a notification from GitHub on your PRs created in October!
Many thanks to all of the contributors to Umbraco 8.11, let’s give them a big #H5YR 🙌:
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⭐ = First pull request to any Umbraco repository
🌟 = First pull request to Umbraco CMS
There is one change identified as breaking in the 8.11 release. The app setting Umbraco.Core.RuntimeState.InstallEmptyDatabase that used to default to false is now obsolete and no longer used at all. Since this was a non-documented configuration we don't think this will affect anyone.
We’ve also updated NPoco to a newer version, updated from version 3.9.4 to 4.0.2, this should not incur any breaking changes but you might want to be aware of the update if you are using NPoco in your custom code.
Update: We have identified breaking changes in the new NPoco version. These changes were unfortunately undocumented, we do however apologise for not catching them earlier. A patch for 8.11 (8.11.1) has been released with a rollback of the NPoco upgrade.
As always, from today, all new v8 Umbraco Cloud projects will be running 8.11. For all our Umbraco Cloud customers with existing projects, this upgrade is only 2 minutes away:
We’ve wrapped it all up for you, so all you have to do now is follow these steps:
As always, installation and release notes can be found on Our: https://our.umbraco.com/contribute/releases/8110
Update: A patch has been released to address a breaking change: https://our.umbraco.com/download/releases/8111
This release is also available from Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/UmbracoCms/8.11.1
The release train is off to a flying start in 2021. First up is the next minor release for the CMS, Umbraco 8.11. This release wraps up all the fantastic contributions from Hacktoberfest, along with some fixes and a new feature. We’d love your help in testing out the release candidate, take it for a spin and let us know if you find anything.