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Sitefinity 15.2 is Here

New Release this November

Sitefinity 15.2 was released in November 2024, and we at the Proven Alliance are thrilled to continue offering customers worldwide a solid CMS system with great additions and fixes.

NEXT.JS Renderer

The official release of the Next.js frontend based on React is finally GA (Generally Available) and includes rendering capabilities on the server and client side.

  • Autogenerated widget designers support for TypeScript
  • WYSIWYG page editor capabilities
  • Support for Auto Reload in Next.js for excel local development experience
  • @progress/sitefinity-nextjs-sdk for tooling and integration with Sitefinity services
  • A full suite of ready to use widgets and form components
  • Full list of Next.js samples repo to help developers with a solid starting point.

Extensible Content Editing UI

Now you can use your preferred JavaScript framework (Angular, React or Vue) to enhance the platform's content editing experience.

  • Adding custom tools to your Rich Text Editor
  • Ability to replace content input fields with your own custom built applications written in Angular, React or Vue

SiteSync

  • Enhanced performance in calculating SiteSync Dependencies
  • Review dependencies before syncing an item
  • Better clean up to remove old entries and clear history

Registration Widgets

  • Enhanced user registration process
  • Dashboard warning for password requirements not configured
  • "Require Activation" is now the default
  • Ability to add CAPTCHA protection for additional verification
  • Improved email activation process

Custom Widgets Icon

You can now change the icons of the widgets in the widget selector and display custom icons.

Improved Rendering of Complex Objects in Designer

The table view rendering of complex objects now collapses columns when the object has more properties than can be adequately displayed in the widget designer and offers a more detailed view to edit complex objects with multiple properties.

Improved Navigation of Hierarchical Content Types

Improved navigation between parent-child content types. Clicking the parent item name now opens the item for editing, instead of opening its children.

Performance Optimization

  • Output cache dependencies - persistence improvements to decrease the database load
  • Output cache for authenticated front-end users.
  • MVC Breadcrumb widget - performance improvements to reduce the number of database queries
  • Optimized taxa loading in MVC widgets
  • Refactored MVC widgets to use dynamic modules cache
  • Link parsing - executed on demand

Removed Widgets

  • Twitter Feed Widget
  • NativeChat Widget

Continual Improvements

The complete list of fixes can be found on the Sitefinity blog. All in all, this was a solid release and a welcome addition to the Sitefinity family.