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So DotNetNuke 5.1.3 was just released, I’ve already upgraded two of my sites without trouble and will be upgrading more of them here in a few minutes. This appears to be a simple stability release fixing some of the bugs in the previous release(s).
Check out Joe’s post on the release as well
You can get the latest version of DotNetNuke from www.dotnetnuke.com
Here’s a quick overview of what’s changed/fixed (from the Change Log)
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10778 Portal Alias input field does not allow port number in alias
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10675 GetRoleGroupByName Signature Mismatch between Method and Stored Procedure
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10794 Encrypting/Decrypting a URL string doesn't work
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10795 Cannot create a role with a period in the name
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10707 Unable to edit SiteSettings
- Friendly / Standard URLs Bug DNN-10796 URL control create relative URLs which breaks newsletters
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10812 LOGO skin object behavior
- RSS Bug DNN-10742 RSS
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10741 Sitemaps for child portals
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10733 Missing setter in TabInfo
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10811 HTML Module displaying unpublished content
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10746 Bug in Languages module
- Skinning Bug DNN-10660 No manifest file is added to skin zip file
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10661 Cant add child or parent portals if I use languages
- General Bug DNN-10596 Multiple rows is added to WebServers table
- Installation / Upgrade Bug DNN-10665 Install package is deleted even if its not installed.
- Security Bug DNN-10641 Adjust Folder Permission Check in URLControl
- Core Modules Bug DNN-10656 Problem with Console module
- File Manager Bug DNN-10536 Host Filemanager Throws Exception on file delete.
- Installation / Upgrade Bug DNN-10582 cannot install MinimalExtropy 1.0.4 after upgrade from 4.9.x to 5.1.1
- General Bug DNN-10532 GetPortalSettings is broken without httpContext
- General Bug DNN-10657 ProfileProperties are loaded twice and wrong?
- General Bug DNN-10658 TokenReplace: [Membership:CreatedOnDate] doesn't work
- General Bug DNN-10520 UserInfo.Roles is Nothing for unregistered users
- Installation / Upgrade Bug DNN-10771 Parameter Count Does Not Match Parameter Value On First Access of Newly Installed Portal
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10579 html module - buttons missing - inappropriate text
- General Bug DNN-10589 Import Module Definitions
- Skinning Bug DNN-10655 Search Skin Object does not always add skinpath to SRC
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10777 Skin install lockout after installing skin as Host and ADmin
- UI / Usability Bug DNN-10728 List of Premium sites is unusable, not wide enough
- Localization / ML Bug DNN-10762 Can't use absolute file references for resource file
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10717 Upgrade Error: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Packages' with unique index 'IX_Packages'
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10756 Portal delete examines hidden system directories
- Skinning Bug DNN-10703 Error in /admin/printmodule.ascx.vb
- Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN-10730 Orphaned Skin/Container Rows in db After Portal Delete (Manifests as GetAboutTooltip Error on Host > Extensions)
- Admin / Host Functions Enhancement DNN-10805 Add Subject to emails from Event Viewer
- Admin / Host Functions Enhancement DNN-10813 Send LogViewers logs as an attachment
- Localization / ML Enhancement DNN-10597 Add SystemMessage support for Dictionary objects
New Module Versions included
- HTML 05.01.04
- Form and Lists 05.00.03
- Forums 04.05.03
New Providers included
- AspNetMembershipProvider 05.01.03
- DNNMembershipProvider 05.01.03
- FileBasedCachingProvider 05.01.03
You can also check out what is currently on the roadmap for 5.2! http://support.dotnetnuke.com/project/RoadMap.aspx?PROJID=2
OpenForce Conference
Did you know about the DotNetNuke Conference coming up soon? I’ll be speaking there again, I hope to see some of the blog readers out there! This is a must attend conference if you want to learn about DNN and interact with key players in the DNN world, it is a great time, I promise you that!
Post Conference Workshop
Once again Cuong Dang (my coworker) and I will be teaching a post OpenForce workshop there in Las Vegas. This year’s workshop is “Build a custom DotNetNuke site in 1 day” in which we will break the class up into groups, designers and developers, each group implementing specific items in the morning, coming back together in the afternoon to put it all together. Last year’s workshop was a great success and we hope to have an even better time this year! For more info check out our Workshop page.
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Just a quick reminder about the Denver Visual Studio User Group meeting 9/28, I will be presenting about DotNetNuke, basically providing an overview to the group. The meeting starts at 6pm, though there is food and other activity starting at 5pm. For more information check out http://www.denvervisualstudio.net/
We also hope to have the first Denver DotNetNuke User Group meeting in October, hopefully at the presentation on 9/28 we'll have an announcement about when/where the first DNN meeting will be. If you can't attend the visual studio group check back here http://denver.dnnug.com/ for information about the October meeting when it is available.
Please forward this on to anyone else you know who may be interested in a Denver DotNetNuke group, have them register on the website for future notifications.
-Chris
http://denver.dnnug.com/
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So I was doing some testing of the DotNetNuke 5.1.2 release that came out last week, and ran into a little issue, with some investigation I found it wasn’t a DNN issue, but an issue with security on the operating system. Here’s the error message I found
System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot register or retrieve components until ComponentFactory.Container is set
At first I was like WTF is this, can’t say I have ever seen or heard of this error before. I started looking around and came across a forum post that mentioned the same error. Luckily for me the last post in the thread pointed out the issue.
“My problem was that I did not unzip the .VB files due to auto security settings . Right click on .zip file properties and remove restrictions and I was all rocking..
Don't know why I never had run into this before.. odd indeed :). Anyhow. All fine now.. Thanks!”
That wasn’t quite clear as to the resolution, but it was enough to get me going in the right direction. The server the sites are running on is Windows Server 2003, I noticed in the folder of my extracted files that all the VB files were missing, meaning that the OS had failed to extract them. To correct this right click on the ZIP file and choose properties, and look for the UNBLOCK option at the bottom of the properties window.
If you choose that option, then extract the contents of the file you should be able to upgrade DNN successfully. I’m not sure what Windows Update provided this new security, but I imagine that is the cause as I’ve tested this on two servers and never seen the issue before today.
Hopefully this post helps resolve the issue for anyone else who runs into it.