Release History

We are happy to announce that the Sitefinity SDK 5.0 is available for download in your accounts. This version contains a lot of fixes in the sample projects as well as the latest goodies from the new features in 5.0.

What's new in Documentation

• New Getting Started section in the documentation portal
• New topics for Sitefinity Thunder
• New topics for working with Forums and using the Forums API
• New topics for Claims Authentication and Single Sign-on
• New and updated topics for using the Security API
• New topics for the Digital downloads widget
• New topics for mobile devices and responsive design
• New topic for configuring the Change Password widget
• New topics for Performance Optimizations
• API Reference for Sitefinity in Visual Studio 2010

What's Fixed

• All Samples: Fixed duplicate widgets in the toolbox
• All samples: Fixed authentication problems when running samples one after another
• Products Module: Disallowing comments for product items was fixed
• Products Module: Added color property in the widget templates
• Testimonials Module: Fixed Auto-Publish functionality
• Locations Module: Fixed viewing items associated to a tag or category
• Locations Module: Fixed empty State/Region fields for some items
• Jobs Module: Fixed validation problems with Browse and Edit logout button
• Jobs Module: Fixed problems with more than one Jobs widget on a page
• Jobs Module: Fixed validation problems with field length
• Jobs Module: Fixed validation problems with phone number fields
• Book Sample: Unpublished images are no longer shown in the widget
• CoverFlow Sample: The album to get images from can now be set
• Template Importer: Fixed duplication of widgets in imported templates
• News Rotator: Fixed issue with changing widget size
• News Rotator: Fixed issues with advanced view not being displayed in the designer
• Education Starter Kit: Fixed URLs for image libraries created through the API
• Education Starter Kit: Fixed issues with setting up Analytics
• DatePicker Sample: Fixed issues with limitations for dates not being saved
• Real Estate Starter Kit: Fixed sending an email to agents
• Real Estate Starter Kit: Fixed revision history for pages in the starter kit
• Real Estate Starter Kit: Fixed issues with Browse and Edit
• Real Estate Starter Kit: Fixed issues with the slider widget on the home page
• Corporate Starter Kit: Fixed issues with RSS feeds
• Corporate Starter Kit: Fixed issues with localization and deleting content items
• Other minor fixes in all samples