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1.  Release History (Sitecore CMS 6)

1.1.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.6 and DMS

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

April 11, 2014

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 6.6.0 rev. 140410 (6.6.0 Service Pack-2, originally released as 6.6.0 Update-8).

Note: This is a product Service Pack. Sitecore recommends customers to install service packs for any feature release that the customer has installed. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

For instructions on how to download and install this release, please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page.

Highlights

The main highlights of this update are:

System requirements

Issues resolved

December 13, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 6.6.0 rev. 131211 (6.6.0 Update-7).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if the fixes included in this release meet the specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

For instructions on how to download and install this release, please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page.

Highlights

The main highlights of this update are:

Improvements

Breaking changes

Deprecated classes, methods, and properties

Issues resolved

June 6, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 6.6.0 rev. 130529 (6.6.0 Service Pack-1, originally released as 6.6.0 Update-6).

Note: This is the latest release of Sitecore CMS 6.6.0.

This is a Service Pack. Sitecore recommends customers to install service packs for initial release of Sitecore CMS 6.6. This is especially true in production environments. For more information about the recommended versions of Sitecore, see Sitecore Versioning Policy page [updated July 25, 2013].

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy  page.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page  for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights

The main highlights in this update are:

Improvements

Breaking changes

Issues resolved

April 17, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 6.6.0 rev. 130404 (6.6.0 Update-5).

Note : This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meet specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Important: A known issue has been identified in 6.6 Update-5 which affects solutions upgraded to 6.6 Update-5 from 6.6 Update-4 or earlier 6.6 releases. Due to this issue, the upgrade instructions have been updated with a step to execute an aspx page as part of the upgrade process. For solutions that have already been upgraded to 6.6 Update-5, the aspx page should be executed as soon as possible. The issue does not affect clean installations of 6.6 Update-5. Please refer to the known issue for more information.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights

The main highlights in this update are:

Improvements

Breaking changes

Important changes

Issues resolved

February 27, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 6.6.0 rev. 130214 (6.6.0 Update-4).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meet specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights

The main highlights in this update are:

Important changes

Issues resolved

1.2.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.5 and DMS

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

October 18, 2012

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5.0 rev. 121009 (6.5.0 Service Pack-2, originally released as 6.5.0 Update-6) and DMS 2.0.1 rev. 121009.

Note: This is a Service Pack. Sitecore recommends customers to install service packs for initial release of Sitecore CMS 6.5. This is especially true in production environments. For more information about the recommended versions of Sitecore, see Sitecore Versioning Policy page [updated July 26, 2013].

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page  for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights:

Improvements

Issues resolved

August 30, 2012

Today, Sitecore has released Analytic Upgrade Tool rev. 120810 – a new version of the tool for converting OMS databases to DMS databases when upgrading from CMS 6.4.x to CMS 6.5.

Note: If you are in the process of upgrading to CMS 6.5 and DMS and have not yet gone live, we recommend that you use the new version of the Analytics Upgrade Tool. If you have already gone live on CMS 6.5 and DMS, there is no reason to re-convert your old OMS database with the new version of the tool.

Important
: The new version of the tool is only compatible with CMS 6.5 Update-5 or later (DMS 2.0.1).
The instructions for upgrading from OMS 1 to DMS 2 have been updated to reflect the changes.

Issues resolved 
The following issues have been resolved in the Analytics Upgrade Tool:

July 19, 2012

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5.0 rev. 120706 (6.5.0 Service Pack-1, originally released as 6.5.0 Update-5) and DMS 2.0.1 rev. 120706.

Note: This is a Service Pack. Sitecore recommends customers to install service packs for initial release of Sitecore CMS 6.5. This is especially true in production environments. For more information about the recommended versions of Sitecore, see Sitecore Versioning Policy page.


Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

New features

Deprecated methods and properties

Important changes

Improvements

Issues resolved

May 8, 2012

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5.0 rev. 120427 (6.5.0 Update-4) and DMS 2.0.1 rev. 120427.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights of new features, improvements and fixes

The main highlights in this update are:

New Features

Deprecated methods and properties

Important changes

Improvements

Issues resolved

February 16, 2012

Today, Sitecore has released two tools related to the upgrade procedure for OMS 1.x to DMS 2.0:

Note: If you are in the process of upgrading to CMS 6.5 and DMS and have not yet gone live, we recommend that you use the new version of the Analytics Upgrade Tool. If you have already gone live on CMS 6.5 and DMS, there is no reason to re-convert your old OMS database with the new version of the tool, but we do recommend that you use the UpgradeCampaigns.html page to convert the item structure of campaign items.

The instructions for upgrading from OMS 1 to DMS 2 have been updated with steps about using the UpgradeCampaigns.html page and with new download links and PDF documentation for the Analytics Upgrade Tool.

Issues resolved

The following issues have been resolved in the Analytics Upgrade Tool:

January 4, 2012

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5.0 rev. 111230 (6.5.0 Update-3) and DMS 2.0.0 rev. 111230.

Note: This version is not currently the recommended version. Sitecore advises caution when you are deciding whether to leverage a non-recommended version, especially in production environments. However, it is appropriate to use a non-recommended version when your website requires newer features and functionality, or if the later version resolves issues that might affect your site.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

System requirements

New Features

Important changes

Issues resolved                             

November 30, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5.0 rev. 111123 (6.5.0 Update-2) and DMS 2.0.0 rev. 111123.

Note: This version is not currently the recommended version. Sitecore advises caution when you are deciding whether to leverage a non-recommended version, especially in production environments. However, it is appropriate to use a non-recommended version when your website requires newer features and functionality, or if the later version resolves issues that might affect your site.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Important changes

Deprecated functionality

New Features

Improvements

Issues resolved                             

August 25, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5.0 rev. 110818 (6.5.0 Update-1) and DMS 2.0.0 rev. 110818.

Note: You should install the current recommended version of Sitecore in your production environment unless you need a fix for a known issue that is contained in a later version. For more information about the recommended versions of Sitecore, see Sitecore’s Recommended Version Policy.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

System requirements

Important changes

Issues resolved                             

June 8, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5 rev.110602 and DMS 2.0 rev.110602.

Note: You should install the current recommended version of Sitecore in your production environment unless you need a fix for a known issue that is contained in a later version. For more information about the recommended versions of Sitecore, see Sitecore’s Recommended Version Policy.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release

Change log.

System requirements

New features

Deprecated and removed features

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved                             

In addition to the issues resolved in the 6.5 Technical Preview, the following issues has been resolved:

April 20, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.5 rev.110419 and DMS 2.0 rev.110419 technical preview.

Note: You should install the current recommended version of Sitecore in your production environment unless you need a fix for a known issue that is contained in a later version. For more information about the recommended versions of Sitecore, see Sitecore’s Recommended Version Policy.

Change log.

System requirements

New features

Deprecated and removed features

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

1.3.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.4

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

January 25, 2012

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev. 120113 (6.4.1 Service Pack-1, originally released as 6.4.1 Update-6).

Note: This is a product Service Pack. Sitecore encourages customers to install service packs for any feature release that the customer has installed.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.
Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

October 18, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev. 111003 (6.4.1 Update-5).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.
Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

October 3, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev. 110928 (6.4.1 Update-4).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.
Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

New features

Important changes

Deprecated functionality

Improvements

Issues resolved

August 5, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev.110803 (Japanese).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Sitecore 6.4.1 rev.110803 is a re-release of CMS 6.4.1 rev.110720 with updated Japanese translations.
The Updates page for 6.4.1 rev.110720 has been updated so that the download links for the Japanese version now points to 6.4.1 rev.110803.

Change log.

Issues resolved

July 27, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev. 110720 (6.4.1 Update-3).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.


Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Important changes

Issues resolved

June 30, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev.110621 (6.4.1 Update-2).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Please refer to the known issue for more information.
 
Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Change Log.

Improvements

Issues resolved

March 28, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev.110324 (6.4.1 Update-1).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Change log.

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

February 4, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev.110202 (Japanese).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Issues resolved

January 11, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev.101221.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.


Sitecore 6.4.1 is a regular maintenance update. The version number has been changed from 6.4.0 to 6.4.1 because of the database schema changes in the EventQueue table. Please visit the Updates page for instructions describing how to download this version.

Change log.

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

November 26, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.0 rev.101124 (Update-1).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

October 18, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.4.0 rev.101012 (Technical Preview).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.
Please visit the Updates section for instructions describing how to download this version.

Change log.

New features

Deprecated features

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

1.4.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.3

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

January 20, 2011

Released Sitecore CMS 6.3.1 rev.110112 (6.3.1 Service Pack-1, originally released as 6.3.1 Initial Release).

Note: This is a product Service Pack. Sitecore encourages customers to install service packs for any feature release that the customer has installed.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.
 Sitecore 6.3.1 is a regular maintenance update. The version number has been changed from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1 because of the database schema changes in the EventQueue table.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Change log.

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

November 4, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.3.0 rev.101029 (Update-3).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Important changes

Issues resolved

October 11, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.3.0 rev.100928 (Update-2).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this version.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Improvements

Issues resolved

September 06, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.3.0 rev.100830 (Update-1).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

July 19, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.3.0 rev.100716 (Initial Release)
Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

Improvements:

Important changes:

Issues resolved:

1.5.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.2

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

November 11, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.2.0 rev.101105 (6.2.0 Service Pack-1, originally released as 6.2.0 Update-5).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Service Pack. Sitecore encourages customers to install service packs for any feature release that the customer has installed.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New features

Issues resolved

September 07, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.2.0 rev.100831 (Update-4).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this version.

Note:  This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New features

Improvements

Important changes

Issues resolved

 

July 07, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.2.0 rev.100701 (Also known as 6.2.0 Update-3).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note:  This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

Issues resolved:

May 26, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.2.0 rev.100507 (Also known as 6.2.0 Update-2).
Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this version.

Note:  This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

Important changes

Issues resolved

January 20, 2010

Released Sitecore CMS 6.2.0 rev.100104 (Also known as 6.2.0 Update-1).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note:  This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

New Features:

Improvements:

Important changes:

Issues Resolved:

October 21, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.2.0 rev.091012 (Initial release).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note:  This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

Improvements:

Important Changes:

Issues resolved: 

1.6.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.1

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

November 10, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.1.0 rev.091029 (Also known as 6.1.0 Update-3).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

September 4, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.1.0 rev.090821 (also known as 6.1.0 Update-2).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New Features:

Improvements:

Issues resolved: 

August 6, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.1.0 rev.090722 (also known as 6.1.0 Update-1).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Improvements:

Issues resolved:

June 30, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.1.0 rev.090630 (also known as the initial 6.1.0 release).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New features:

Improvements:

Issues resolved:

1.7.  Release History for Sitecore CMS 6.0

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

May 22, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.2 rev.090507 (also known as 6.0.2 Update-1).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 Updates section for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Issues resolved:

IE8 Cosmetic Issues:

April 28, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.2 rev.090416.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 Updates section for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New features:

Improvements:

Issues resolved:

March 24, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.1 rev.090317 (also known as "6.0.1 Update-1").

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 Updates section for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New features:

  1. A new 'defaultProfileItemId' attribute has been added for <domain> definitions in the domains.config.xml. DefaultProfileItemId is typically used when using external security providers where the users in the domain do not automatically have a Profile associated with them.
  2. A new MaxItemNameLength web.config setting was introduced, making it possible to change the maximum length of item names. The default value is 100 characters.

Issues resolved:

  1. Fixed: When using dynamic image scaling, the right and bottom edge of the image would sometimes appear cropped.
  2. Fixed: Improved performance in the User Manager when switching between pages.
  3. Fixed: Links created by using the DropTree fields type were not added to the link database. As a result, such links were not shown in the "Links" pane on the "Navigate" tab in the Content Editor.
  4. Fixed: Virtual items from external databases could not be opened in the Content Editor if the template they were based on did not exist in target database. An unhandled exception would appear.
  5. Fixed: When setting publishVirtualItems to 'true', the virtual items would be published without any versions.
  6. Fixed: When setting publishVirtualItems to 'true', the virtual media items would be published with an empty value in the Media (Blob) field.
  7. Fixed: An exception might appear in the Sitecore log files when the Web client disconnected in process of streaming the media data (e.g. the client was disconnected by closing the browser window).
    Notice: This issue was not completely resolved, and is still reproduced under certain circumstances. See the known issue for more information. [Added March 12, 2010]
  8. Fixed: When the IIS application pool was configured to run using a non-standard user account Identity, a System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException might occur, preventing Sitecore from working.
  9. Fixed: Creating items with Danish symbols "æøå" or other unicode characters in the item name was not possible, even if the unicode characters had been added to the ItemNameValidation setting.
  10. Fixed: Publish worked incorrectly when proxiesEnabled = false, publishVirtualItems = false for master database and proxiesEnabled = true for web database. The virtual items would be removed from the web database during publishing, thereby deleting them from the source database.
  11. Fixed: The SwitchingProfileProvider no longer throws an error when editing users where different user profile properties are stored by several different profile providers.
  12. Fixed: Profile properties from custom profile provider could end up being saved as core profile provider properties, not as custom profile provider properties.
  13. Fixed: Sitecore Packager could silently fail when experiencing an error during installation, only reporting the error in the log file, not in the Installation Wizard.

February 13, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.1 rev.090212 (also known as "Service Release-1").

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 Updates section for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

New features:

  1. It is now possible to organize layouts, sublayouts and renderings into folders, using the new Layout Folder, Rendering Folder and Sublayout Folder branches.
  2. Danish translations are added into Sitecore 6.0.0.

Improvements:

  1. Packager performance is improved when installing packages.
  2. Increased performance when executing Assert statements in the core DLLs.
  3. New XSLT renderings no longer define a $home variable which can result in a slight performance increase. Instead, comments are included in the file with examples of different syntax for defining a $home variable.
  4. SQL Server databases: An index has been added to the Blobs table for the 'master' database to increase performance of retrieving media.

Issues resolved:

  1. Page Editor
    • Lock/Unlock functionality in the Page Editor: The Page Editor now takes the AutomaticLockOnSave setting from the web.config file into account when saving. Automatic unlocking in the Page Editor is controlled by setting security on the /sitecore/system/Settings/Security/Policies/Page Editor/Keep Lock After Save item in the core database.
    • By default, the Page Editor will no longer keep items locked when an Administrator user saves an item. To keep items locked after saving for Admin users, set the KeepLockAfterSaveForAdminUsers setting in the web.config to "true".
    • Switching from Preview to the Page Editor could result in various problems, including inline editing not being available, green content dots disappearing and the Design pane throwing an exception. The problems were related to the user context being reset to extranet\Anonymous.
    • If the user navigated away from a page where he did some changes in an image field in inline editing mode, he would not be asked to save the changes and the changes would be discarded.
    • When starting the Page Editor from the login page, it would be opened for the default site even when the host name of another site was specified in URL.
    • The Page Editor and Preview client would start on the Home item from the current site definition instead of the StartItem. This could in some cases lead to a "document not found" page when a user tried to start the Page Editor or Preview from the login page.
    • The treecrumb in the Page Editor showed hidden items.
    • The Page Editor did not work correctly with extensionless URLs when a 404 error handler such as "/sitecore/404.html" was configured in the IIS Manager.
    • Changes to renderings in the Design pane would not always be saved if a layout only had renderings assigned to a single device.
  2. Security API and related applications
    • Editing users in the User Manager no longer remove roles from the user and assign them again.
    • Nobody could login to Sitecore after user with ^ or | in his password tried to login. Application restart was necessary.
    • Calling sc:UserInfo(string) in an XSLT rendering would return no information or throw an exception for certain user property fields.
    • The password could not be changed for users converted from Sitecore CMS V5.3.
    • An "intranet\Anonymous" user was present even though there was no "intranet" domain defined.
    • The "Full name" column in the User Manager did not show the full name when using the Active Directory security provider.
    • The legend in the Access Viewer has been changed to say "Not specified" instead "Inherited".
    • In the clean installation, the Client Language and Regional ISO Code is now set to "Default" for the "sitecore\Admin" user.
  3. SQLite
    • The SQLite security provider did not allow users from other security providers to be added as members of the default roles.
    • Nested roles were not shown on the "Member Of" tab in the User Manager.
    • Archive and Recycle Bin application would fail.
    • Uploading media items did not work correctly if the ASP.NET account did not have access to the c:\temp folder.
  4. Developer Center
    • When closing a layout with unsaved changes in the Developer Center, an exception could occur if answering "Yes" in the confirmation window about saving changes.
    • The Grid Designer would not always save changes when used from the Content Editor.
    • The Grid Designer now shows a warning if the Path field of the layout is empty instead of throwing an exception.
    • An error could occur when in the Grid Designer when splitting a table vertically.
    • An error could occur when saving a layout after switching between Design and Grid view.
    • When starting the Page Editor inside the Developer Center, the window tab no longer says "WebEdit".
  5. Item Serialization
    • After template with __Standard Values filled with some field values was serialized and removed the Update tree command in the Content Editor might throw an exception.
    • The Serialize Item command in the Content Editor did not work for Media (Blob) field of media items. As a result of this, this field could not be deserialized.
    • Serializing a tree with many levels or very long item names might throw an exception.
  6. Cosmetic Issues
    • The validator bars in the Content Editor were not visible if "Prefetch collapsed sections" was disabled in Application Options and "Standard Fields" was turned off. Also, borders would be missing around fields in with this configuration.
    • Minor UI fixes for the Package Designer. The "New" menu was not closed after creating a new package and some of the date pickers displayed two combobox arrows.
    • Minor UI fixes for Firefox.
    • Various minor UI fixes, such as missing or unnecessary scrollbars.
  7. Changes to the web.config file
    • The default value for the MemoryMonitorHook Threshold setting in the web.config file has been increased to 800MB.
    • The default settings for the MemoryMonitorHook in the web.config file has been changed to avoid decreasing performance on servers where Sitecore reaches the MemoryMonitor.Threshold limit.
    • The LayoutNotFoundUrl setting in the web.config file had an incorrect value.
    • The DictionaryFolder key in the web.config file had an incorrect value.
    • An obsolete fastCache section has been removed from the web.config file.
  8. XSLT Renderings and Sublayouts
    • sc:image control sometimes threw an error if the image field was empty.
    • asp:login control did not work when placed on a sublayout.
    • Controls which do post back would not work correctly when placed on a sublayout with cache settings applied.
    • Paths starting with "~" in ASCX were output literally instead of being transformed relative to the webroot.
    • Using XSLT variables as parameters for Sitecore's XSL Controls did not work.
    • XSL Rendering Caching section was available only when Standard Fields was enabled.
  9. Link Database
    • TreelistEx fields were not included into link database.
    • The "Sample Item" template could not be deleted due to dead links in the link database.
    • Dead links are now removed when running the "Clean up databases" application.
  10. Publishing
    • Publishing items with empty fields would incorrectly use the standard value for the published item if the "Reset blank" checkbox was checked for the field definition.
    • For items containing multiple versions, changes to unversioned and shared fields would not always be published.
    • If an item contained any broken links it could not be published.
  11. Miscellaneous
    • The Database.GetItem() and ItemManager.GetItem() functions may occasionally return null when the site is under heavy load. This can cause problems when searching for existing Sitecore items. [Added July 21, 2009]
    • Using query in field sources did not work.
    • The item cache could return wrong results for sites where filterItems="true".
    • Item count in the Media Library included hidden items.
    • Hidden items were displayed in the right-hand pane of the Media Browser.
    • Setting a background color for the Sitecore Desktop did not work.
    • Changes to the current user's icon in the control panel would not be reflected in User Manager.
    • Decimal values entered into number fields were reported as being invalid when using a culture that does not use "." as decimal symbol.
    • When copying an item without any English versions to another location, an English version would be added.
    • The login page would sometimes show a misleading message on failed logins.
    • The wrong folder would be opened in the File Explorer after clicking the Up button and then double clicking any folder to open it.
    • The Installation Wizard would sometimes skip items when the items to install already existed in the solution.
    • Right clicking the ribbon in the Content Editor no longer show tabs that are restricted using security.
    • The Device Editor did not show folders created from the Node template.
    • An obsolete "Image has validation path" validation rule has been removed from the 'master' database.
    • The Media.StreamPartiallyCachedFiles setting in the web.config file did not work.
    • Specifying an invalid type for "Subitem sorting" would not always log an error in the log file.
    • The log file contained warnings about the 'Logging.AuditsLogged' performance counter not existing on the server.
    • The log file would sometimes contain unnecessary BrokenLinkValidator errors related to TemplateSection.GetField().
    • SqlException "transaction was deadlocked" would sometimes occur when copying or changing a large amount of items.

January 30, 2009

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.090120 (also known as “Update-9”).

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 6 Updates section for instructions describing how to download and install this update.

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meets specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: Web sites which leverage AJAX features could receive JavaScript errors.

December 29, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.081222 (also known as “Update-8”).

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: XSL renderings occasionally failed under high load with many concurrent users and reported “A rendering error occurred: Xsl file could not be processed” in the Sitecore log file.

  2. Fixed: Media items could not be stored in a content infrastructure that was more than three folders deep, because item IDs were used as folder names for media storage on disk, which resulted in file paths that exceeded the maximum allowed by Windows.

  3. Fixed: When switching from Preview to Page Editor, inline editing would no longer be available (and Green Dots would disappear if showing content dots). This is still an issue if Sitecore is running on Vista and the editors use IE7 & IE8.

December 09, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.081203 (also known as “Update-7”).   

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: Installation wizard didn’t install files marked to skip if exists.

  2. Fixed: XSL renderings might fail occasionally under high server load.

  3. Fixed: Creator-Owner role might be ignored when resolving access rights.

October 29, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.081022 (also known as “Update-6”).   

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: Uploading files did not work if the Flash 10 player was installed.

October 17, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.081009 (also known as “Update-5”).   

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: Cross site links were not working as expected. Such links now include the hostname of the target site and are generated relative to the start item of the target site. This functionality can be disabled by setting Rendering.SiteResolving to “false” in the web.config file.

  2. Fixed: a selected Publishing Target of an item was not taken into account when performing Publish operations.

  3. Fixed: The performance of item creation has been significantly improved.

New features:

  1. The FastQueryDescendantsDisabled setting has been added to the web.config file. It may be set to true to disable the ability to use fast query to select items through Ancestors/Descendants axes. This will give a small performance increase of item creation/moving/deletion.

October 9, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.081002 (also known as “Update-4”). 

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: When running Sitecore in virtual environment, the .NET worker process might stop working due to a problem in Microsoft’s .NET implementation.

  2. Fixed: Sitecore required Flash for upload to work. The old upload dialog box will be used if Flash is not installed.

  3. Fixed: Sitecore would display an error message when an Administrator tried to save changes to an item that was locked by another user.

  4. Fixed: Despite setting <setting name="AutomaticLockOnSave" value="true" /> in web.config, items were not locked on edit if Standard Fields were displayed.

  5. Fixed: Despite setting <setting name="AutomaticLockOnSave" value="false" /> in web.config, items were locked after editing if Standard Fields were not displayed.

September 18, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev.080912 (also known as “Update-3”).

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: The Sitecore Client Authoring role had been assigned all access rights for the /sitecore/content item, which gave all content authors more access rights than intended.

  2. Fixed: A runtime error could occur when a user attempted to select a workflow command to move an item from one state to another.

  3. Fixed: Despite restricting access to an item in a specific workflow state, the “Edit” button was still enabled and allowed users to edit the item.

  4. Fixed: The AccessResultCache was not always cleared after an item was moved to another workflow state, which could result in inappropriate access rights assigned to the item.

  5. Fixed: The Page Editor Edit mode attempted to open the contentStartItem of the Shell Web site, rather than the startItem of associated Web site, which caused editing issues in multi-site installations.

  6. Fixed: The ComponentArt grid control used in the User Manager initialized itself multiple times, causing slower than necessary startup performance in sites with many thousands of users.

August 29, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev. 080820 (also known as “Update-2”). 

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved: 

  1. Fixed: stability issues occurred with .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.

  2. Fixed: items in a workflow were not automatically versioned when users edited them in the Page Editor mode.

  3. Fixed: the media cache grew even when the link to a media library entry had the same query string parameters as the previous one.

  4. Fixed: in some cases, deadlocks could occur during the recycling/restoring of items.

  5. Fixed: Sitecore CMS could hang if the ‘Subitems Sorting’ definition in the Type field referred to a non-existent class or .dll file.

  6. The performance of the ItemSerializer was increased.

  7. Fixed: The SQL generated for fast query could not be customized when implementing new data providers.

July 14, 2008

Released Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 Update rev. 080701 (also known as “Update-1”). 

This version is no longer available.

Change log.

Issues resolved:

June 30, 2008

Sitecore CMS 6.0.0 rev.080627 is released.

This version is no longer available.