Sitefinity CMS 11.0 release notes

The new content editing and management experience is switched on by default for all new projects. For existing projects, the administrators can switch on the experience, as well as enable individual users to switch between the new and classic interface. The following list summarizes key improvements the new interface:

• A new rich text editing experience based on the Kendo UI Editor
  
• A reinvented HTML source editing with syntax highlighting
  
• Easier and faster taxonomy and category selection for content items
  
• Reinvented content list management including sorting, filtering, and search
  
• Smart content item locking
  
• Improved experience for adding items in related media and related data fields
  
• Reinvented digital asset selectors (images, videos, documents)
  
• Easier navigation between content items
  
• Embedding social media elements in content
  
• Reinvented multilingual content management
  
• Support for revision history
  
• Connectivity with Translation Management Systems
  
• Individual users can switch on and off the new content editing experience
  
• Extensible formatting for content item fields
  
• Reinvented Lists management
• Insert dynamic links in Rich text editor to content or page from the CMS
• Enhanced date and time pickers
  

For more information, see New content editing experience.

• Web security module
  The new Web security module adds another layer of protection for your site. It uses HTTP response headers to configure web clients (browsers) and turn on their build-in security features. Once set the headers can prevent from cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking, code injection, stealing/modifying data in transit, content sniffing. Site administrators can control which headers are enabled through configuration settings.

  For more information, see Web security module.

• Data encryption
  Another improvement that we have available for this release is an option to store credentials in advanced settings in encrypted format.

  For more information, see Encrypt sensitive data in configurations.

The new Sitefinity VSIX helps you to easily scaffold your Sitefinity project. The tool is focused on the creation of MVC widgets and templates that is the optimal choice for development in Sitefinity. It supports adding MVC package to you project, MVC template, Grid Templates and MVC widgets.

The extension is compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 and you can download it from Visual Studio Marketplace Sitefinity VSIX or from GitHub repositories Sitefinity-VSIX and Sitefinity-CLI.

For more information, see Sitefinity VSIX.

New testing process of code samples in documentation:

• All snippets in documentation articles are now uploaded into Gists on GitHubGist.
• All Gists with code files are now compiled against the latest build to ensure that there are no breaking changes and compilation errors.
• Obsolete and deprecated code samples have been updated. 

• MVC Framework (Feather)

  MVC widgets are default option in pages toolbox
• By default, MVC content widgets now automatically display a single content item in Detail view.The ContentViewDisplayMode property enables you to modify this behavior and configure whether single content items are displayed in Detail or in List view.

Developer Tools updates

• .NET 4.7.1 and C# 7 support.
  
• Progress Telerik UI  for ASP.NET AJAX  R1- 2018.1.117.40 
  
• Progress Kendo UI R1 SP1 - 2018.1.221
  
• Progress Telerik UI for WPF, R1 SP1 - 2018.1.122.45
  
• jQueryUI - v1.12.1
  
• Service Stack - v.5.0.2
  Since v.5.0.0 Service Stack no longer provides .Signed packages.
  The NuGet packages Service Stack provides are now signed by default - naming notes.
• Newtonsoft.Json- version 10.0.3
  
• NEST - version 5.5.0
  
• Lucene.Net - version 3.0.3
  Removed Lucene 2.9
• Lucene.Net.Contrib - 3.0.3
  
• GeoIP database upgraded with latest changes since April 2018
  
• NuGet support for Visual Studio 2017.
  Visual Studio 2012 is no longer supported.

• Deprecated DropBox provider
• Deprecated Sitefinity Thunder
• Visual Studio 2012 is no longer supported with Nuget Packages installation.