New:

• New module: Categories
  • enables additional categorization/taxonomy of documents 
• New module: Tags 
  • enables tagging any documents (not only blog posts) with tags and displays a tag cloud 
• New module: Alternative forms 
  • enables creating multiple versions of editing form in BizForms, document types and custom tables 
  • allows you to define custom forms, such as user registration form 
• New module: Custom tables 
  • enables creating custom tables in case you need to store some data or web content outside of the CMS content repository 
  • it’s useful if you need to work with large number of records in a single table 
• New module: Banned IPs 
  • allows administrators to limit access from chosen IP addresses 
• New module: Bad words 
  • allows administrators to forbid nasty words and replace them, report them or disable given user action, such as forum post or blog comment 
• New module: Avatar gallery 
  • allows administrators to create pre-defined avatars (user images) and let users choose their avatar or upload a new one 
• New module: Time zones 
  • allows you to display time and date calculated for the given web site or user 
  • it’s useful for global communities so that users can see e.g. forum post time based on their time zone 
• New module: On-line users 
  • allows you to display users who are currently on-line and kick them if they do not follow the site rules 
• New module: Message boards 
  • allows you to create message boards and comments for documents 
  • the module supports moderation, subscriptions, rating and other features 
• New module: Notifications 
  • enables subscribing to content changes 
  • provides a general notification framework that can be used not only for e-mail, but also for any custom notification gateway, such as instant messengers 
• New module: Friends 
  • allows site members to maintain relationships with other site members and share personal information with them 
• New module: Report abuse 
  • allows site visitors to report offending content, such as forum posts, blog comments and others 
• New module: Groups 
  • allows you to create social networking sites with user communities (groups) 
  • allows inviting users to join the group 
  • allows users to create group-specific content and applications, such as wiki-like pages, forums, message boards, media libraries and polls 
• New module: Media library 
  • enables easy management of media files, such as images, videos or music 
  • the files can be accessed directly without any script and they are not stored in the database, so you can work also with large files 
• Reviewed module: Forums 
  • many new features including: 
  • quoting 
  • mark as answer 
  • attachments 
  • BB-style editor 
  • customizable forum layouts 
  • locked forums/threads 
  • sticky threads 
  • and many others 
• Reviewed module: URL rewriting and aliases
  • you can now specify default alias path or URL redirection for every domain alias of the web site, which means that you can display different home page to visitors based on the domain name they use to access the site 
  • many new features including: 
  • support for unlimited URL Aliases for every document 
  • tracking of marketing campaigns when some page is visited using some particular URL 
  • custom extensions of pages and uploaded files 
  • support for macros in URLs 
• Reviewed module: Membership 
  • improved member management 
  • the user registration form can be easily customized with your own fields without programming 
  • user registration may optionally require e-mail confirmation 
  • administrator can optionally choose that all new user registrations must be approved first 
  • you can now send mass e-mails to multiple users, roles or groups 
  • improved user interface for management of large number of users with filtering and alphabetical sorter 
  • support for mixed mode authentication 
  • you can now use both Forms and Active Directory authentication together 
• Administration UI: Extended functionality of MyDesk -> My profile. 
• Administration UI: Asynchronous document deletion and moving. 
• Administration UI: New information splash screen on logon dialog. 
• Administration UI: New version of the WYSIWYG editor. 
• Administration UI: Extended functionality in the web part zone properties. 
• Administration UI: Extended functionality of System tables. 
• Administration UI: Overviews where the document type, page template, product and category are used. 
• Blogs: Bulk Approve/Reject comments functionality in MyDesk and improved comments management in Tools. 
• Blogs: Support for blog moderators. 
• Blogs: Support for blog post subscriptions. 
• Blogs: Added support for tagging, categories and content rating 
• Blogs: On-site editing is now supported for site members without access to CMS Desk 
• Blogs: You can now ping other blogs and get trackbacks to your posts 
• Controls: New format of inline controls macro now supports named parameters. 
• Controls: New controls - context menu, error messages, datasources, filter, BBEditor, ... 
• Controls: Minor improvements in localization controls from ExtendedControls. 
• E-commerce: New web parts - N newest products, product filter 
• E-commerce: Multiple default tax classes for department. 
• E-commerce: Document types can be configured as product types which have enhanced functionality. 
• E-mail engine: Support for custom subject, plain text, from, Cc and Bcc e-mail addresses in e-mail templates. 
• E-mail engine: Enables more robust sending of e-mails. All e-mails from the system are sent through the e-mail queue and if sending fails, they are kept in the queue and can be sent later. It also allows to archive sent e-mails so that you can easily find out if some e-mail was sent or not. 
• Event Log: The object changes can now be now logged. 
• Event log: Easier browsing of events using Previous and Next buttons. 
• General: New contexts for easier access to the data of current objects. 
• General: Logon page now checks the CapsLock status. 
• General: Minor improvements in file import module. 
• General: All the obsolete methods from previous versions have been removed. 
• General: Performance optimizations regarding memory consumption, amount of data selected from the database and ViewState. 
• General: Google site map support 
• Import/Export: Minor improvements in import/export. 
• Messaging: Minor improvements in messaging. 
• Content: New image editor for the attachments. 
• Content: Content rating support. Allows site visitors to rate news, articles and any other content. 
• Content: Image editor for the attachments. Allows content editors to resize uploaded images, convert them to another format, trim to chosen size and convert to grayscale. 
• Newsletters: Performance improvements for large number of subscribers. 
• Newsletters: Customizable subject in (un)subscribe templates. 
• Output filter: Minor improvements in output filtering. 
• Portal engine: On-click AJAX configuration of the web parts. Most web parts now support AJAX on one click. You only need to check the box Use update panel in the web part properties and the web part uses AJAX rather than classic postbacks. 
• Reporting: Minor improvements in reporting. 
• Security: New default (generic) roles. 
• Security: Windows Live ID support. 
• Settings: Improved management of settings. 
• Staging: Minor improvements in staging. 
• System: Administrators can now receive e-mail notification when some error is added to the event log. 
• User contributions: Minor improvements in user contributions. 
• Web analytics: Statistics from specific period of time can now be deleted. 
• Web analytics: User registration statistics can now be logged. 
• Web farms: Support for restarting of all the servers. 
• Web parts: Improvement of many existing web parts. 
• Web parts: News datasource and viewer webparts.

Changes:

• Administration UI: All pages are now based on master pages.
• Administration UI: Administration UI now uses CSS classes instead of the SkinIDs. 
• General: Changes in filesystem and architecture to support separable modules in future versions.

Bug fixes:

• Administration: Fixes in RTL languages layout.
• Administration: Minor fixes in administration UI. 
• BizForms: Image button wasn't set as default button of the form when custom layout was used. 
• Bizforms: CSS stylesheet didn't work when bizform's layout was edited. 
• BizForms: CAPTCHA control didn't work when the BizForm is used as a inline control. 
• BizForms: Notification e-mail wasn't sent if recipients e-mail adresses ended with ';'. 
• BizForms: 'UseColonBehindLabel' didn't worked on ASPX templates after postback. 
• BizForms: Incorect links of uploaded files when a bizform from one site was used on another site. 
• Blogs: URLs in blog comments were incorrect when inserted without 'http://'. 
• Blogs: Minor fixes in blog comments. 
• CMSDesk: Context menu wasn't displayed well if content tree was large and scrolled down. 
• Content: Editable texts in PagePlaceholder with default page template didn't work at Page tab. 
• Content: Images didn't appear occasionally during heavy load when output cache was on. 
• Content: Content of PageTemplates properties -> Webparts couldn't be saved. 
• Content: Moving document to another site caused an error when document name and alias had been changed before. 
• Content: Document could be archived by user without required permissions. 
• Content: Some links and image URLs weren't resolved on ASPX sample web sites site when output filter was switched off. 
• Content: URLs of images from another site were incorrenct when using multiple web sites on a single domain (subfolders). 
• Content: ID of the document custom data couldn't be used as an alias. 
• Content: Documents restored after deletion had different NodeGUIDs than the deleted version. 
• Content: CMSMenu tooltip didn't display special characters properly. 
• Content: Template 'Text with side column' caused problems to editable regions in IE7. 
• Controls: Images in submenu items didn't have the "alt" atribute. 
• Controls: BasicTabControl caused index out of bounds exception with specific configurations. 
• Documentation: Minor fixes in the documentation. 
• E-commerce: Order status history wasn't up-to-date when the status was changed by custom payment provider. 
• E-commerce: Minor fixes in permission checking in administration UI. 
• E-mails: Minor fixes in resolving template based e-mails. 
• File import: Minor fixes in the file import. 
• Form controls: E-commerce form controls didn't work properly with property UseCodeNameForSelection set to true. 
• Forums: Minor fixes in posts approval. 
• Forums: 'Subscribe to post' link wasn't displayed when Maximum nesting level was set to 1. 
• General: Title tag wasn't as a first tag in the head section of the page. 
• General: Minor fixes in working with the flash files. 
• General: Field category created in FieldEditor couldn't contain apostrophes. 
• General: Custom security handler didn't work correctly with windows authentication. 
• General: 'Exclude documents from search' setting didn't work if the value ended with ';'. 
• General: Decimal numbers weren't displayed correctly for different cultures. 
• General: Data from custom fields weren't updated in the application cache. 
• General: Custom modules didn't appear in CMSDesk -> Tools if 'Display' permission for the module didn't exist. 
• General: Custom data handler caused issues when working with document types and when retrieving files via GetFile.aspx. 
• General: Some controls didn't generate valid html code.
• General: Alias paths weren't unique if documents had names starting with the same long prefix.
• General: Some controls were missing in VisualStudio toolbox after adding a reference to Kentico CMS API libraries.
• General: URL rewriting didn't worked properly if extensionless and SSL were used together.
• General: Pages inherited templates only from published pages which was causing inconsistency in design.
• General: Default connection string was always used when using GeneralConnection.
• General: ValidationHelper.GetDouble method didn't reflect current culture settings.
• General: SignOut button didn't work with cookieless settings.
• General: User role couldn't change permissions even if the role had the permission to do so.
• General: PageInfo didn't contain proper DocumentPublishedVersionHistoryID.
• Import/Export: Only documents of default culture version were imported to the site which had been imported before.
• Import/Export: Importing data with attachment might cause errors.
• Import/Export: Too long queries were generated during export, causing errors.
• Import/Export: Imported/exported site's cultures weren't preselected correctly.
• Newsletters: CSS stylesheet wasn't applied after uploading an attachment when editing newsletter template.
• Newsletters: 'Send now to all subscribers' option didn't work when editing dynamic newsletter.
• Polls: Two different polls couldn't coexist on the same page when the caching was on.
• Scheduler: SqlDateTime overflow error appeared when date wasn't in allowed interval.
• Scheduler: Scheduled tasks didn't run when using multiple web sites on a single domain (under subfolders).
• Staging: Staging could work even if 'Staging service authentication' settings didn't match on source and target servers.
• Staging: Root element was missing when synchronizing object's subtree.
• Staging: Automatically created blog months didn't appear in the staging task list.
• Staging: Synchronization tasks weren't logged correctly when the workflow was on.
• Web parts: Grid webpart didn't display data of two document types which had fields of the same names.
• Web parts: Minor fixes in Content slider webpart.
• Web parts: Minor fixes in Flash webpart.
• Web parts: Minor fixes in Tree view menu webpart.
• Web parts: Site map redirected to '#' when javascript action of the menu item was used.
• Web parts: Document pager webpart didn't have the 'Check permission' property.
• Web parts: Minor fixes in QueryDataList webpart.
• Web parts: Minor fixes in Lightbox webpart.
• Web parts: Minor fixes in Google maps webpart.
• Workflow: There was an incorrect message when document was submitted to approval.
• Workflow: Form fields weren't validated when a document was checked-in.
• Unigrid: Wrong item was deleted when someone else changed item order at the same moment (order status, workflow step, ...).