Software update: Umbraco CMS 9.4.1

Version 9.4.0 of Umbraco was released and shortly afterwards a successor appeared due to an error. 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 since version 9.3.1 looks like this:

Release 9.4.1

Bug fixes

• Background tasks using RecurringHostedServiceBase using “legacy” constructor throw error on startup

Release 9.4.0

Notable features

• Item tracking improvements

Accessibility

• Make the missing image caption functionality in the RTE work

API and API documentation updates

• Added name & color description for umbAvatar
• Fixed issue in umbeditorheader.directive.js example

Dependencies

• Bump follow-redirects from 1.14.7 to 1.14.8 in /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client
• Bump url parse from 1.5.3 to 1.5.7 in /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client
• Updates babel and caniuse-lite
• Bump karma from 6.3.14 to 6.3.16 in /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client

Developer experience

• Make views compatible with Nullable Reference Types
• Fixes issue with OrderByDescending generating invalid SQL
• Update RemoveTreeController to use TController
• Grant access to get all content types so content templates can be moved to content section.
• Constant icon blueprint
• Introduced new “large” overlay size
• Lookup plugin lang / icons folders in a case insensitive way
• v9 – Allow configuring TinyMCE scripting sanitization
• Support async in TreeController
• add null check for case when index is not implementing LuceneDirector…

front end

• Validate that imageUrl param is a relative path

Localization

• Vary localization based on content or blueprint

Performance

• Only select ItemIdFieldName in PublishedContentQuery.Search to improve performance
• Tune Debug logging to improve ContentStore boot performance

UI and UX updates

• refactor setTitle in MediaPicker.Controller.js
• Makes group name wider to fit long group names
• Makes the template column in NC config expandable
• Filter block cards and show empty message
• Updated border radius of notification to match button
• Transition of lazy loaded image
• Added property way of seeing composition
• Align tags vertically in content type property component
• Lookup back office section name in route locationTitle
• Use pointer cursor pointer for keyboard shortcuts overview
• fixes umbraco logo appearance on backoffice login page, issue #11830
• new stick top position for rte toolbar if tabs are present, issue #11870
• Introduced new “large” overlay size
• Localization: Translate “Create dictionary item” to English
• Set current selected master template in tree
• 11921: Update CultureName after language change
• Make GridPropertyEditor dirty if a control is removed

Other features

• Content app for dictionary items
• Allow setting the site name from appsettings
• Added section for promoted packages in the back-office.
• Adding null check to IsCulturePublished on IContent

Bug fixes

• Redirects do not work due to missing null check
• Model.Url(culture) only returns “#” on multi-lingual site
• Container validation (ValidateOnBuild) fails if backoffice controllers are added to IOC container (non standard setup).
• Unable To Import DocType If Parent Folder Already Exists
• ServerRegistrationService.TouchServer uses the DB instead of IServerRoleAccessor to determine IsSchedulingPublisher
• MainDom lock re-acquired by deploy slot after Azure slot swap
• TimeOut Setting not being respected in v9
• Redirect Url Management not working with Contenttypes(Allow vary by culture)
• ContentType IsDirty() is false after changing a value in HistoryCleanup
• Cannot replace default RenderController with Generic controller type
• ContentSavingNotification – Cannot access content that is about to be saved.
• Random GUID in user detail view
• v9 Missing legacy password support for uniquely salted SHA1 hashed passwords
• Fix JsonConfigManipulator causing upgrades to fail when appsettings.json files are not present
• V9: Fix Umbraco:CMS:Global:SqlWriteLockTimeOut setting value ignored
• (umbraCollab) Check media Parent for permissions when setting correct MediaType
• 11777: Remove sorting because we need the correct order
• Don’t hold static UmbracoContext reference
• Check form and querystring when validating `ufprt` in `ValidateUmbracoFormRouteStringAttribute`
• Attempt to make app local icu setup less problematic.
• Fix items found in PVS-Studio analysis
• Temp 11977 – Fixes 11977 Content Name auto-numbering is not incrementing
• Add config to hide back office logo
• Exclude the Umbraco Log files from UmbracoProject template gitignore
• Fix Empty Recycle Bin view not found on Linux
• Prevent DatabaseServerMessenger handle leak
• Add using statements for IDisposables
• Ignore certificate errors for KeepAlive task.
• Settings Dashboard Umbraco.tv References
• Filesystem based MainDomLock & extract interface for MainDomKey generation
• V9: Fix missing site identifier
• Fix namespace shown in C# API docs
• Media entry editor list view children
• V9: Fix history cleanup not making content type dirty
• v9 fix misc issues external member login
• v9: Fix image thumbnails not showing if filename contains non ascii characters
• Fix media tracking of items added via macro parameters in RTE and Grid
• Item tracking fixes and optimizations after RC
• Fixes RecurringHostServices leaking the execution context / ambient scope
• Use an umbra.co link for the TV replacement channel
• Amend breaking change in RecurringHostedServiceBase