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Posted by:
Joe Brinkman
3/18/2010 2:13 PM
With any software product you will occasionally have a release that you wish you could take back. Microsoft had Windows Vista, and Tuesday we had DotNetNuke 5.3.0. We had a couple of significant bugs which slipped through the QA process and which resulted in a major impact to customers. Rather than continue to compound the problem we have made the decision to pull the 5.3.0 packages from CodePlex and from DotNetNuke Support Network while we test a 5.3.1 release which we expect to release early next week. 5.3.1 is specifically going to address the following issues: - Email is not delivered to end users and instead a significant number of system emails are being sent to the administrator account instead. This impacts the ability of users to register and to get password reminders and as such is a showstopping bug that will be fixed in 5.3.1.
- Synchronize and SynchronizeFolder in the FileSystemUtils class have a breaking change in the API. Overloads will be added to 5.3.1 to allow existing modules which call this API to continue to function.
- Updated XML module. Although we highlighted the issues with XML module in the release notes, we were working on a fix to this module to be released this week. This will be included with the 5.3.1 package.
Technorati Tags: DotNetNuke, Release
14 comment(s) so far...
Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
i'm not seeing it i only see 5.2.3 with the release date of today for download.
By Donovan Sobrero on
3/18/2010 8:06 PM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Thank you guys for rectifying the error quickly. Best wishes with the 5.3.1 package
By Gerald Ncube on
3/18/2010 8:06 PM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
@Donavan - 5.3.1 just went to QA team today. It has not been released to the public yet. As indicated above, we expect the release to be available at the beginning of next week.
By Joe Brinkman on
3/18/2010 8:07 PM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Joe,
I have experienced issues with the new user profile page. It seems to not show the avatar, and logs the current user out when navigating away from the page.
By Brad Schafer on
3/20/2010 9:04 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Difficult decision I suspect, but better turn halfway then being lost at the end.
Success, we are looking forward to 5.3.1 (glad our strategy is always to wait a couple of weeks before upgrading customer sites).
By XCESS expertise center b.v. on
3/20/2010 9:04 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
I was hoping this would also fix the error where non en-US sites upgrading from a version prior to 5.2.0 can no longer update a number of site settings, including the UserProfile page which gets set wrongly on upgrade. I guess I'll have to wait for 5.4.0 for the fix....
By Roger Selwyn on
3/20/2010 9:04 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
According to Gemini, DNN-11982 custom user registration broken in 5.3 is now being postponed to 5.4. Why? Why is it not being fixed immediately now in 5.3.1?
By CT on
3/20/2010 9:04 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
@Roger - When developing software to a schedule you are often forced to make decisions about what features will be delivered for a particular release. Sometimes, when the feature does not meet your quality expectations you must remove it from the current release and push it out to a subsequent release so that you have plenty of time to make sure you are not delivering a product that you know is not ready. We had to back out some changes in the localization of site settings because the fixes (which are non-trivial and impact many areas within the system) were not stable enough to meet our release dates.
By Joe Brinkman on
3/20/2010 9:08 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
@CT - 5.3.1 is a very quick patch to address very specific problems that are impacting all DotNetNuke users of the platform or which can be quickly resolved and tested. Although the profile/registration issue is a significant issue, the level of effort to fix it and do a full set of regression testing around that issue is more than what we can accomplish in the 3 or 4 days we allocated to 5.3.1. Since we are now on a regular monthly releases schedule, and since 5.4 is due to be released the week of the Visual Studio launch in April (3 weeks away), we felt that holding off on the change to profile/registration was the best course of action as it gives us plenty of time to make the needed changes.
By Joe Brinkman on
3/20/2010 9:18 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Thanks Joe,
I am playing now on a test site with 5.3 and must say it is fun.
Two features I have been looking forward to for years have been added.
The Profile Image and the Taxonomy.
I hope the Dev community understand the great benefits of these features and quickly adopt them.
I definitely look forward to seeing these integrated into the core modules.
Awesome stuff.
By Phil Speth on
3/20/2010 10:38 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Joe the issue Roger talk about could rather easy get a fix without imact on other loclization issues. To correct a bug intoduced before with a little script should give you more value for the brand than the cost to write it..
By Jan Olsmar on
6/28/2010 7:27 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Thanks Joe. Hadn't realised 5.4.0 was only 3 weeks away, has assumed it would be several weeks.
By Roger Selwyn on
6/28/2010 7:26 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
I don't know if this problem will be address in 5.3.1, but since I upgraded my site to 5.3.0, when a user click on his name to edit his profile, the page only refresh and do not display the profile page.
Thanks
By Stephan Bourgeois on
6/28/2010 7:27 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke 5.3.1 Version now entering QA.
Method not found: 'System.String DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.SendNotification
Did something happen to this method in 5.3.1?
Mike.
By Michael Crawford on
6/28/2010 7:27 AM
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