A New Version of DotNetNuke

Just in time for Christmas a new version of DotNetNuke has been released. On it’s 4 year anniversary of the first release, DotNetNuke released version 4.4.

“On December 24th, 2002, the code which was to become the DotNetNuke web application framework was first released to the community. On the fourth anniversary of this date, DotNetNuke version 4.4.0 - a release with significant performance enhancements - has now been made available for download”

If you’ve never used DotNetNuke before, do yourself a favor and try it out, there are no licensing fees to download it, use it, or even modify it. It’s open source, free, and a great way to easily start building a website via an intuitive web based UI.

Version 4.4 marks the first ASP.NET 2.0 only release, prior to this release DNN was maintaining two sets of code, one for .Net 1.1 and one for .Net 2.0. 4.4 marks significant improvements in performance over previous versions as this version was heavily tested and tweaked in a full scale performance lab.

Here’s an edited list of changes from the change log available at https://support.dotnetnuke.com/project/ChangeLog.aspx?PROJID=2

Component Issue Type Summary Admin / Host Functions Bug Page Head tags are not properly processed Admin / Host Functions Bug Action Menu with Module Specific Permissions is not displayed Admin / Host Functions Bug Cannot use icon from module directory in action buttons Admin / Host Functions Bug ModuleTitle in multi definition modules Admin / Host Functions Enhancement Improve Delete Portal Functionality Admin / Host Functions Enhancement Convert Site Wizard to use .NET Framework classes Admin / Host Functions New Feature Add Page Quotas Admin / Host Functions New Feature Add User Quota Admin / Host Functions New Feature Improve Portal Management Admin / Host Functions New Feature Add a new Delete Expired Portals action Localization / ML Bug Pop-up calendar localized date format bug Localization / ML Bug Popup calendar Localization / ML Bug Localized images break when using the “ShowMissingKeys” app setting. Localization / ML Bug Collation issue with Event Log Localization / ML New Feature Force a specific language for first visitors Performance Bug Performance: ClientAPICaps.config caching Performance Bug Performance: XmlSerializer Performance Bug Performance : TabCache Performance Bug Performance ; Menu providers Performance Bug Performance: XPathDocument vs XmlDocument Performance Bug Performance: Reduce Database Calls Performance Bug Performance: CBO and Reflection Performance Enhancement Imporve Startup performance Performance Enhancement Implement HTTP compression Security Bug Exception when deleting role groups