v9.5.0-rc2

Release Notes

This is a Release Candidate. It is not meant to be used in production, it is published to allow testing before the official 9.5.0 release.
We'd like to first thank everyone from the community who has submitted pull requests or reported issues. A grand total 110 commits in 80 pull requests by 21 contributors were processed for this release.

Noteworthy Changes in v9.5.0

Testing special attention

Although any testing is welcome specially in RC releases, we suggest to give special attention to the following areas:

• jQuery was updated in this release, although this is not expected to be a breaking change, please do test your custom solutions with this release.
• This release should fix issues in the MVC module pipeline, testing your own MVC modules with this release would be a good idea specially if you use Dependency Injection.
• Multiple issues that where fixed relate to SSL Offloading, if you run in this kind of environment, your testing would be welcome.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue when logging 404 errors with invalid UrlReferrer. #3341 Thanks @engineering87 and @bdukes
• Fixed an issue where the login page would go into an infinite loop in SSL offloaded environments. #3341 #3350 Thanks @bdukes and @zyhfish
• Fixed an issue where in some cases it was impossible to edit module settings after moving a module to another page #3353 Thanks @aelibyary
• Fixed an issue where PageTags where created in the wrong vocabulary scope. #3359 Thanks @dinesh-jain-aurea
• Fixed an issue where module settings would not save under some conditions. #3360 Thanks @engineering87
• Fixed multiple issues with wrong mapping of Canonical and None mapping types. #3396 Thanks @daguiler
• Fixed an issue that would show an error when trying to delete a localized version of the home page. #3420 Thanks @daguiler
• Fixed an issue where the wrong CDN protocol was used under SSL Offloading environments. #3423 Thanks @zyhfish
• Fixed an issue where opening page settings would sometimes show the settings for another page. #3424 Thanks @berkarslan-xo
• Fixed a display issue of Enabled and Priority in sitemap settings. #3427 Thanks @tingung
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to get the module ID properly when redirect mixed case URLs was enabled. #3438 Thanks @zyhfish
• Changed the update service URL to a new service. #3443 Thanks @mitchelsellers
• Fixed an issue where the wrong portal alias was used when adding new languages. #3445 Thanks @daguilera
• Fixed an issue where the wrong alias would show when editing portal URLs. #3481 Thanks @tingung
• Restored a resource key that was accidentally deleted as part of GDPR. #3482 Thanks @donker
• Fixed an issue where connectors would change name upon disconnection or when adding multiple connectors. #3449 #3451 Thanks @berkarslan-xo
• Fixed an issue where pages in redirect mode would not work under SSL Offloaded environments. #3453 Thanks @zyhfish
• Fixed module find logic in module attribute to not return deleted modules. #3464 Thanks @donker
• Fixed an issue with using dependency injection in MVC modules. #3520 Thanks @dimarobert
• Fixed an issue where the Console and Module Creator modules would not install. #3521 Thanks @daguiler
• Fixed an issue where page tags where not kept when exporting a site and importing it on another instance. #3530 Thanks @tingung

New features

• Added support for SSL offloading values in headers. #3363 Thanks @zyhfish
• Added a new banned icon to indicate unauthorized users. #3487 Thanks @donker
• Added glob pattern support to manifest file cleanup component. #3516 Thanks @valadas

Enhancements

• Ensures just setting the timezone prop in settings does not save to the database until a save is requested. #3037 Thanks @donker
• Improved display of journal links and comments (word wrapping). #3337 Thanks @thabaum
• Improves display of missing language flags. #3384 Thanks @berkaslan-xo
• Moved email and display name above username and password in registration form. #3386 Thanks @thabaum
• Made form messages 100% width for better responsive alignment in modules. #3388 Thanks @thabaum
• Updated several localization texts to better represent current Dnn UI. #3472 Thanks @sleupold
• Bumped jQuery and jQuery related plugins versions. #3475 Thanks @mitchelsellers
• Improved progress bar on translation progress. #3478 Thanks @tingung
• Fixed a typo FreindlyName => FriendlyName. #3484 Thanks @sleupold
• Ensures that a user is read from data store before we use it in mail #3488 Thanks @mitchelsellers
• Improved display of import progress. #3492 Thanks @tingung
• Fixed a typo in Azure folder settings Syhchronization => Synchronization #3493 Thanks @sleupold
• Updated Blueimp uploader to the latest version. #3519 Thanks @donker
• Enhanced robots.txt to better support modern development practices. #3522 Thanks @mikesmeltzer
• Removed Dnn Copyright injection. #3524 Thanks @mikesmeltzer
• Updated the default website template to link to our new dnndocs, Dnn Community and this Github repository #3525 Thanks @david-poindexter
• Changed cache-busting URLs to use a hash. #3528 #3531 Thanks @roman-yagodin @bdukes
• Improved performance in the pages treeview. #3533 #3535 Thanks @nadeem-akhtar-nu
• Improved performance of core messaging. #3540 Thanks @sleupold

Developer Experience / Documentation

• Updated documentation as per the recent branch and build reorganization. #3368 #3415 #3467 Thanks @valadas @donker @sleupold
• Created/Updated security policy on the default develop branch. #3376 Thanks @david-poindexter
• Updated several references to our new dnndocs.com and dnncommunity.org websites. #3385 #3393 #3403 Thanks @thabaum @valadas @donker
• Allows bypassing some build automations like the version number in a local settings file. #3402 #3470 Thanks @donker
• Combined all JavaScript projects from AdminExperience into their own folder. #3408 Thanks @donker
• Fixed NuGet packages specifications. #3412 @mitchelsellers
• Added unit test to folder manager. #3418 Thanks @daguiler
• Automates generate of current version SqlDataProvider file if missing. #3419 Thanks @valadas
• Automates the generation of checksums for the security analyzer. #3421 Thanks @valadas
• Updated Stalebot configuration to accommodate the new issue management system. #3430 Thanks @david-poindexter
• Updated issue templates to auto-apply the 'new' label to new issues before triage and redirect users to forums for general discussions and ideas. #3433 #3436 Thanks @david-poindexter
• Fixed lerna builds of yarn workspaces to allow stating to publish new npm packages again. #3456 #3462 Thanks @mtruledge @donker @valadas
• Prevent tracked versioned files to be committed when they are auto-versioned. #3471 Thanks @valadas
• Added mergeable to enforce assignment of a label and milestone to each PR in order to be able to merge it. This ensure nothing is missed in these release notes. #3502 #3505 #3506 Thanks @david-poindexter
• Removed old deprecated documentation from codebase. #3510 Thanks @Timo-Breumelhof
• Skips some build steps when building locally to speed up builds (NuGet packages, checksums, etc.) #3476 Thanks @donker

List of Contributors

• @donker (Peter Donker)
• @valadas (Daniel Valadas)
• @david-poindexter (David Poindexter)
• @zyhfish (Ben Zyhfish)
• @mitchelsellers (Mitchel Sellers)
• @daguiler (Daniel Aguilera)
• @tingung (Hy Ting Ung)
• @sleupold (Sebastian Leupold)
• @thabaum (Cody Thabaum)
• @bdukes (Brian Dukes)
• @berkaslan-xo (Berk Arslan)
• @mikesmeltzer (Mike Smeltzer)
• @engineering87 (Francesco Del Re)
• @nadeem-akhtar-nu (Nadeem)
• @roman-yagodin (Roman M. Yagodin)
• @Timo-Breumelhof (Timo Breumelhof)
• @mtrutledge (Matt)
• @dimarobert (Robert Dima)
• @aelibyary (Ahmed Elibyary)
• @dinesh-jain-aurea (Dinesh Jain)

A big thanks to all testers including:

• @marietteknap (Mariëtte Knap)
• @OllyHodgson Olly Hodgson

Additional Resources.

Is this your first time installing or upgrading DNN? If so, you can find some help with the installation and upgrade wiki articles. If this is your 100th time upgrading DNN, maybe review the guides and submit a few changes!