Umbraco 5 has entered BETA phase on 11 November 2011! This means it's 85% completed and that we're getting closer to a feature complete Umbraco 5 version. The Beta tag means that many of the exisiting features from Umbraco 4 are now available in Umbraco 5 Beta, but there still may be some V4 features missing - but don't worry as these will appear as the Beta phase moves closer to launch day! You can follow the progress here...

Trip down memory lane with Umbraco founder Niels Hartvig - Umbraco BE Festival 2011 Keynote

Just Completed

• Release
  Prepare for release
• Hive
  Fix Hive Entity Uri mappings with Ids/Config/Providers
• Release
  Prepare for release
• Editor Experience
  Create 'info' msg for when creating new items that aren't saved yet
• Editor Experience
  Dynamically populate the 'Default template' drop down in the doc type editor based on the checked 'Allowed templates' in the list
• Membership System
  User type editor
• Release
  Prepare for release
• Installation
  After Alpha, need to get the custom connection string working in the installer
• Editor Experience
  Get 'Create matching template' working when creating new document type
• Codebase Updates
  Merge Cms + Cms.Web projects
• Codebase Updates
  Create mapper for File IO models
• TinyMCE
  Define and parse macro syntax inside TinyMCE
• TinyMCE
  TinyMCE - Links dialog / internal links
• Editor Experience
  Show msg when no doc types are available when creating content
• Editor Experience
  Get tree icon overlays working (i.e. saved, protected, etc...)
• Editor Experience
  maintain expanded doc type properties when doc type is saved
• Codebase Updates
  Create ActionFilters to execute a Task to allow developers to handle the execution and modify the Model before it is sent to the View
• Codebase Updates
  Get hostnames working in routes
• Editor Experience
  JS to automatically update the document type property alias based on the document type property name (like in v4), to be equal to what it will save when posted back with extension method ToUmbracoAlias()
• TinyMCE
  TinyMCE - Macro insert dialog
• Editor Experience
  Hostnames context menu + editor
• Editor Experience
  Create 'info' msg for when creating new items that aren't saved yet
• Hive
  Fix Hive relations
• Hive
  Fix NH Cascades and any code Shannon has written to "bandaid" fix
• Editor Experience
  Get 'Copy' dialog working
• Editor Experience
  Get 'Move' dialog working
• Editor Experience
  Recycle bin working /w context menu empty bin
• Codebase Updates
  Examine - Get Type Mappers working
• Hive
  Update Hive provider model to be 'tighter', easier/clearer for devs to implement and to ensure all methods make sense for all Hive providers.
• Membership System
  Permissions
• Release
  Prepare for release
• Editor Experience
  Languages Tree
• Editor Experience
  Languages Editor
• Misc
  Url Providers
• Codebase Updates
  Change all Automapper mappings to use new mapping engine
• Editor Experience
  Rollback context menu + editor
• Editor Experience
  Tree persistence between apps
• Membership System
  User permissions editor
• Editor Experience
  Permissions context menu + editor
• Editor Experience
  Rollback context menu + editor
• Editor Experience
  Add tooltip of property alias to the properties in ContentEditorController (and description)
• Release
  Prepare for release & beta testing
• Codebase Updates
  Add DemandBuilder to Plugins
• Hive
  Add permission to media file proxy
• Editor Experience
  Nested template/layouts

In Progress

• TinyMCE
  TinyMCE - Image/Media item insert dialog
• Codebase Updates
  Browser testing and ensure all of the current CSS is working across all browsers
• XSLT/Search
  Create Examine v2 Hive Provider
• Performance
  Run perf tests, research + refine
• Codebase Updates
  Examine - index EVERYTHING, entity schemas, etc...

Coming Soon

• Codebase Updates
  Create task to ensure no duplicate names in media/content tree at the same level
• Hive
  Update Hive IO provider to queue all writes so they are all done on Commit.
• Hive
  Update Hive IO provider to have an internal lookup cache so it doesn't read from the file system unnecessarily
• TinyMCE
  TinyMCE - Styles
• Hive
  Change Hive ProviderGovernor's Commit so it's bottom-up calling the providers
• Membership System
  Hive membership provider wrapper
• Codebase Updates
  Add Generic arguments to AddOrUpdate In Hive
• Editor Experience
  Tree/App deep linking
• Node
  Need to map Authors (Created By, Updated By) to the db using relations
• Release
  Documentation writing
• No category assigned atm
  Remove hard coded ~/Plugin to use config
• Editor Experience
  Persisting the 'Publish-At' 'Unpublish-At' data
• Codebase Updates
  Getting 'Publish-At' Unpublish-At' working so that id does the publishgin
• Codebase Updates
  Multiple Examine values - real values + tokenized values
• Editor Experience
  Updated User editor to have different forms authentication options
• Editor Experience
  Create new notification for when a user's session will timeout so they can renew it
• Localization
  Go through prettifying & localizing exceptions
• Packages
  "Add checkbox to 'Install on upload"" for the local package manager"
• Codebase Updates
  Put threadsafe dictionary caching on Type.GetType(string) as we use it very frequently in Hive
• Property Editors
  "File upload prop editor: store ""previous path"" in view so that if uploading a new file, previous file can be deleted"
• Editor Experience
  Dictionary tree
• Editor Experience
  Dictionary editor
• Installation
  Finish installer so that it matches v4
• Localization
  Need to ensure all names as strings throughout the codebase can be localized and display the correct localized version to the UI
• Performance
  Write script to load content from v4 using Courier NH entities, and save them into v5 (for perf testing). Obtain new test db's from community.
• Performance
  Write integration tests to test front-end perf + profiling of v5 with different sized datasets
• Misc
  Add current version flag to config or somewhere, we need to be able to query for version
• Codebase Updates
  Update Serialization type to TypedAttributeValueCollection instead of AttributeType so that there can be many serialization types per property editor, not just one
• DocTypes, DataTypes, etc
  Inherited doc types
• Editor Experience
  Public access context menu + editor
• Membership System
  Integrate public access with membership provider in the routes/action filters for front-end
• Release
  Prepare for release
• Performance
  Run perf tests, research + refine
• Editor Experience
  Template editor updates - inserting fields, macros, etc...
• Packages
  Public Nuget package repo
• Packages
  Public package editor
• Node
  Updated NodeName property editor to support Url Aliases
• Task System
  Allow tasks to run async
• Editor Experience
  Integrate dictionary functionality into Content like in v4
• Hive
  Hunt down remaining unclosed nhibernate session
• Hive
  Change Hive config to deep config mgr
• Release
  Prepare for release
• Performance
  Run perf tests, research + refine
• Codebase Updates
  XmlDoc - also generate in build via NDoc
• Codebase Updates
  Embedded view fallback to local & update Id to be readable
• No category assigned atm
  Create packager to create packages like in v4 to include content, macros, etc...
• Styling
  Style the jquery UI components such as the calendar, autocomplete in search field, etc...
• Styling
  When multiple alert bubbles are displayed there is a static number of pixels seperating them, but this needs to be dynamic since the bubbles can grow.
• Release
  Prepare for release & testing
• Release
  Documentation writing
• Editor Experience
  Notifications context menu + editor + notification functionality
• Installation
  Create a 'No installer' installer
• Editor Experience
  doc type tab deletion = ajax
• Codebase Updates
  Create code-first API to create classes for doc types, etc...
• Editor Experience
  Canvas editing
• Editor Experience
  Skinning
• Property Editors
  Add an extension point to the NodeName property-editor so that url-aliases can be autogenerated based on a pattern without creating a tree structure e.g. /%year%/%month%/%title% for blogging etc.
• Hive providers
  "Default IO provider: implement simple revisioning based on renaming previous file (requires ""previous location"" property adding to File). Also implement pseudo-transactions using this (move from temp to real path on Commit)"