DotNetNuke 5.6.2 Beta is Released

Over the past year the DotNetNuke team has been working hard to improve the pace of our releases and to provide the community with the opportunity to participate in beta testing in order to provide feedback prior to a release.  As of this morning DotNetNuke 5.6.2 beta packages are now available for download from our Beta Downloads page.  We have made a number of fixes to the platform and incorporated a couple dozen performance enhancements.  5.6.2 further stabilizes the 5.6 platform and should be a solid foundation for your DotNetNuke site.  Please keep in mind that this is just a beta and is not intended for production use.  Upgrades to the final 5.6.2 release are not supported.  We still have a few additional issues that we expect to be resolved prior to our Mid-March release but welcome any feedback.

Major Highlights

• Fixed issue where "My Folder" was not available in the URL control and the Telerik HTML Editor
• Fixed issue where HTML Editor dialogs were not displaying correctly in alternate languages
• Fixed issue with Regex for email validation
• Fixed race condition in the core scheduler
• Fixed issue where editing Host page settings would result in broken host menu
• Fixed issue where "Apply to All Modules" setting was not propogating settings correctly.
• Fixed issue where browser language detection was not working for child portals
• Fixed issues where ASPX pages in subfolders were returning an error
• Fixed issue where the Host Users list was not showing the correct users
• Fixed issue where SendMail API was throwing validation error on valid email address.
• Fixed issue where adding runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" to web.config would result in some file types not being accessible
• Enhanced Host>SQL module to log module usage
• Enhanced user manager to allow users to be restored or hard-deleted
• Enhanced the way modules are identified in HTML for easier CSS control
• Added the ability to disable the Auto-PortalAlias feature
• Added numerous performance enhancements

Updated Modules/Providers

The following modules and providers have been updated in the 5.6.2 packages. Please see the specific project pages for notes on what bugs or enhancements were corrected with each release.

Modules

• Blog 04.01.00
• Documents 04.01.01
• Forum 05.00.01
• RazorHost 01.00.01