Software update: Umbraco CMS 9.2.0

Version 9.2.0 of Umbraco has been released. 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 with more than 50,000 registered users and developers who ensure a stable flow of releases. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Notable features

• Package telemetry

Acceptance tests

• Replace .first() with localize in acceptance tests

API and API documentation updates

• Update docs for localize.directive.js

block editor

• Block list editor content and settings model properties

Dependencies

• Update to SixLabors.ImageSharp.Web 1.0.4 and remove processing order workarounds

Developer experience

• Create extension methods to easily append to CollectionBuilders
• Rename AddOEmbedProvider() and Obsolete OEmbedProviders()

Localization

• v9: Health Check still references web.config instead of appsettings.json
• Variant state: Add missing fallback texts
• Overlay delete view: Add missing fallback text
• List view: Add missing fallback texts
• Documenttypes Permissions view: Add missing fallback texts and fix styling
• Mediatypes permissions view: Add missing fallback texts
• Create view: Add missing fallback text
• Media Sort view: Add missing fallback text sort view media
• V8 Changed ‘confirm new password’ to ‘confirm new password’
• [v8] Change httpsCheckInvalidUrl to healthCheckInvalidUrl

Members

• Move member properties to Member Content App

refactor

• Change Cache-Control header when cache buster value is present

Test automation

• v9: Update ‘User’ Cypress tests
• Cy create language

UI and UX updates

• Member group picker actions
• fix #9894 . Truncate block editor model title to 100 chars.
• Added notifications toggle to user groups
• Fix the introduction tour getting lost if dashboard is not shown
• Focus lock improvements
• Ensure crop size in shown for slim thumbnails
• Updating fr.xml translation file
• Updates to Media Selection list view to better match Grid View
• Add functionality for resetting to the initial state.
• Fixes userpicker filter
• Content grid: Add missing fallback value
• Variant state: Add missing fallback texts
• Datatype info view: Add missing fallback text
• List: Add missing fallback texts
• List view: Add missing fallback texts
• Documenttypes Permissions view: Add missing fallback texts and fix styling
• Mediatypes permissions view: Add missing fallback texts
• Media Picker: Add missing fallback texts
• Media Sort view: Add missing fallback text sort view media
• Listview Datatype: Change from using delete icon to “Remove” text in layouts
• Remove http-equiv meta tag and update the “enable JS” message a wee bit
• Adds support for simple markdown in property descriptions, and extended property descriptions
• Apply pickDate-config setting to hide calendar in datepicker
• Redirect Dashboard: Wrap Texts in directive
• V8 Changed ‘confirm new password’ to ‘confirm new password’
• Fixes fallback value ignored in Localize directive
• [v8] Change httpsCheckInvalidUrl to healthCheckInvalidUrl
• Update styling or log viewer
• #7902 displaying messages on canceled item creation

V9

• Q9: Add a health check for umbraco application url

Other features

• Add support for media saving messages in dropzone
• Remove the need of Smtp.Host config when using PickupDirectoryLocation
• Merge v8/dev into v9/dev 14/12/2021

Bug fixes

• Weirdness when setting granular permissions for usergroups
• Routing issue with UmbracoAuthorizedApiController, UmbracoAuthorizedJsonController etc
• Optional id route parameter is lost when model binding for UmbracoApiController
• LogViewer Dashboard doesn’t display UmbracoFile Sink -> restrictedToMinimumLevel if set
• URL paths not correct on some file systems
• Fix typo `retrive` to be `retrieve` throughout project
• Allow appsettings.json to set SMTP authentication to string.Empty
• V9/feature/merge v8 22/11/2021
• Ensure Umbraco Razor files are compiled into .Views.dll
• Move member properties to Member Content App (V9 merge regression)
• Adds migration back for v9 for #10450
• Q9: Use current request for emails