Sitefinity CMS 11.1 release notes

• Out-of-the-box generation of Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google AMP) per content type. The AMP pages are based on templates, located on the file system, that could be easily extended and deployed. Sitefinity CMS provides preview and validation of AMP pages to ensure the generated markup complies with the AMP requirements.
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• Improvements in the search indexes enable you to modify an existing search index by adding newly created content types. You do not need to recreate search indexes or re-index anymore.
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• Improvements in OpenGraph and SEO properties.
  Out-of-the-box custom field types for OpenGraph properties. OpenGraph support for pages.
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  Out-of-the-box custom field types for SEO properties.
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• Improve website performance in multilingual mode. Optimize persistence for multilingual at scale. Your multilingual website will be automatically tuned to perform better no matter of the number of languages. 
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• Parallel editing of multilingual content
  Editor teams can modify and work on translations of the same content simultaneously since content items are locked individually for each language. In addition, language editors can modify any text fields, including related content items and related media, in the language they are working in.
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• Provide out-of-the-box open redirects protection. Out-of-the-box mechanism for preventing non-validated redirects and forwards. You can now define a whitelist of trusted external locations that your Sitefinity CMS website is allowed to redirect to. 
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• Improved UI for managing security headers. Easily extend the list of trusted content sources (Content-Security-Policy). More user-friendly configuration for the referrer information (Referrer-Policy) and Strict-Transport-Security.
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• Contextual onboarding and help tips for the new content editing experience.
  When working in the new content editing experience, users can now benefit from the onboarding and help tips, displayed in the context of the task they want to complete. Users are guided where and how to complete key activities, related to creating, editing, and managing content. Each user can dismiss onboarding tips or skip the onboarding sequences altogether. In addition, Help tips direct users to relevant and related content that can further advance them in their tasks in the specific context. Onboarding preferences are persisted per user.
• Enhanced review and approval workflow. You can define workflows up to 3 levels deep for any set of pages or content types, tied to a specific site or language. An editor can add a summary note when submitting for review. Notifications are improved across the board (submissions, approvals, and rejections). Reviewers with skip privileges can now reject content as well. 
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• RTL support in the new content editor
  When working with multilingual content that requires alternative text alignment, such as Arabic cultures, the editor automatically aligns your content to the right of the content editing area. In addition, content editors can mix RTL and LTR languages in the same phrase, with custom alignment.
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• Content location search in the new content editing experience
  In case content is displayed in more than one page or linked to from other items, content editors can easily identify and locate where else specific content item is used or referenced on the site.
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• Distributed Cache (using Redis, MemCached, SQL Server, AWS DynamoDB) significantly improves the performance of your Sitefinity CMS website in NLB configurations. Using distributed cache decreases startup time of any of the Sitefinity CMS servers. Thus, organizations can scale up faster with additional web servers decreasing the warm-up time. Learn more... 
  

  All Sitefinity CMS servers in network load balancing (NLB) now share the same ETag. As a result, performance is optimized and content is served faster.
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• Support for Bootstrap 4. All the benefits of Bootstrap 4 are now available to Sitefinity CMS frontend developers. In addition, Bootstrap 4 resource package includes accessibility improvements, such as better keyboard and screen readers support. Frontend assets build infrastructure uses npm scripts instead of Grunt. Image sprites are replaced with Font Awesome solid SVG icon sprites. Bootstrap 3 is still supported.
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• The System status widget on Sitefinity CMS dashboard displays critical system errors related to NLB setup and Site Sync, thus enabling IT Administrators (Admin roles) to quickly detect and troubleshoot issues.
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• The Open ID connect improvements enable IT Administrators to map external authentication provider claims such as email, first name, and last name to user profiles in Sitefinity CMS.
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  This enables support for Azure AD and Azure AD B2B. The email address can now be set as optional via the RequireEmailClaim property. The setting is applicable only for authentication with external providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Azure AD.
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• The geolocation database is updated to the latest version (GeoLite2 City). Developers can now leverage and customize the geolocation functionality.
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• Personalization by query string uses URL parameters of the request to effectively deliver specific content to visitors, based on sources of page visits and campaigns.
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• Analyze the impact of your website content by tracking content touchpoints in Sitefinity CMS. Understand which content items have the biggest impact on conversion rates and focus and optimize your marketing efforts.
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• Get more relevant search results by utilizing the improved Azure search. Now the search results are ordered based on @score parameter.  
• Control whether content age is considered when Lucene search @score is calculated.
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• Enhanced control of your website crawling process by search engines. Public user comments are now screened and a rel="nofollow" attribute is appended for specific outgoing links that are not part of the website domain.
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• Ability to enable and disable OpenGraph properties on widget level, enabling control over the order of loading OpenGraph properties.
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• Ability to enable and disable SEO meta title and meta description on widget level, enabling control over the order of loading SEO properties.
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