Releasing 2sxc 8.4 for DNN with content-blocks, quick-edit and more
2sxc 8.4 brings many new features and fixes various long-term issues. Here's a quick overview.
Core new features
- Content-Blocks and App-Blocks inside Content Items (inner content)
- Quick-Insert to add modules / content-blocks in view-mode
- AngularJS is now not included in edit-mode any more, allowing developers to use any angularjs version they want
- More performance improvements - pages and api-calls can now render render in about 0.1 - 0.2 seconds
- Fixed Azure compatibility issues related to the newer edition of SQL Azure
Also important internal fixes/improvements
- all import/export dialogs are now JS based (no more web-forms on that)
- completely refactored module-rendering so that all webforms dependencies are gone :)
- installer was majorly refactored with more logging and some fixes making it much faster / more reliable
- Fixed search issues not indexing app-modules
- Moved module-level data web-api call to use web-api
- minor face-lift regarding icons/logos
Some general bugfixes which may have affected you
- module-titles are updated again
- tiny-mce (wysiwyg) lists now don't format the text any more
- app-export errors
Daniel Mettler grew up in the jungles of Indonesia and is founder and CEO of 2sic internet solutions in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, an 20-head web specialist with over 800 DNN projects since 1999. He is also chief architect of 2sxc (see github), an open source module for creating attractive content and DNN Apps.