Software update: Umbraco CMS 7.11.0

Umbraco is a content management system for editing and managing dynamic web pages. The whole thing is written in C# and runs on a Microsoft infrastructure. There is a positive and proactive community behind with more than 50,000 registered users and developers who ensure a stable flow of releases. Version 7.11.0 of Umbraco was released on Tuesday and the most important changes that have been made are listed for you below.

Features

• U4-11150 – Tour editor should show only tours for the users language
• U4-11301 – Add datatype guid in back office
• U4-11356 – Add events to the grid so it’s possible to extend it
• U4-11369 – See a list of document types where a composition is used ‘from a composition’
• U4-11408 – Use the umb-toggle for the True/False property editor
• U4-11437 – Add ‘Document Type Alias’ title on mouse hover over ‘Document Type Name’ under content ‘Info’ tab
• U4-11438 – Add OEmbed support for issuu.com
• U4-5683 – Migrate Dictionary tree & editor (Angular & Service APIs)
• U4-7874 – Add more events to the content editor scope

Breaking Changes

• U4-11146 – Remove legacy setting for private package repositories
• U4-8927 – OrderedDowngradeMigrations will not find migrations to downgrade

Issues & Tasks

• U4-10706 – Umbraco.TypedMedia doesn’t work with UDI strings
• U4-10892 – GridValueConverter requires HttpContext
• U4-10899 – Template circular dependency
• U4-10936 – No Doctype Icons – Failed to read the ‘rules’ property from ‘CSSStyleSheet’: Cannot access rules in Chrome 64
• U4-10956 – Saving animation on the save and publish button only displays on initial save/publish. 7.8.0
• U4-11039 – Media Upload Button Disabled Status
• U4-11040 – Remove pointer cursor for labels that don’t focus a field when clicked
• U4-11133 – Ability to hide Unpublish button in content editing screen
• U4-11159 – Spelling mistakes in Getting Started Tour
• U4-11195 – Mapping complex properties slow down some queries
• U4-11215 – Member create dialog is not using icon from member type
• U4-11313 – ContainsAny() method in StringExtensions doesn’t honor the StringComparison parameter
• U4-11321 – Auto-completion sensitive field on the login form
• U4-11329 – GetExternalAuthenticationOptions gets called when AuthType is Null in Umbraco.Web/editors/BackOfficeController.cs
• U4-11332 – Add meta noindex,nofollow to Preview View
• U4-11358 – Health Checks: the warning icon should be orange instead of yellow
• U4-11367 – Can’t delete a tab with no properties on it
• U4-11395 – Optimization: Add Gulp task to compress images in the back office as part of the build process
• U4-11400 – CodeGarden on the installer screen is mentioned as being in June
• U4-11406 – Culture for Macros rendering in the back office
• U4-11412 – When no cancel or confirm handler is defined the umb-confirm directive still shows the button
• U4-11416 – Video tiles in the developer section do not format nicely.
• U4-11417 – Make base AnchestorOrSelf public
• U4-11426 – URL not being populated in the RTE link media picker when searching for content
• U4-11430 – Back office UI localization update (ru-RU)
• U4-7757 – Notification not shown using CancelOperation on unpublishing event
• U4-8516 – Copying page shows wrong CreatedBy
• U4-8961 – Indicate that grid row is clickable
• U4-9066 – Three new Security Health Checks
• U4-9367 – Disable move when items are in the recycle bin and replace with Restore
• U4-9983 – Add health check to check for X-Content-Type-Options=nosniff header