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1/27/2011 9:46 AM
 
Lars Tungen


Joined: 10/4/2003
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The DotNetNuke 5.x series have been a complete disaster. Every single release of DNN 5 have had serious issues, including the very latest release. In my opinion, version 4.9.5 is the only release suited for production. I wish the development team would stop adding new horrible features and bloat. Instead they should focus on stability, security and performance. I can't see where this demand for new features comes from. The community forums are filled with failed upgrade reports and other error reports. Is it PE customers who insist on these new features? Ship them with PE only and keep the CE slick and stable.
 
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1/27/2011 8:02 PM
 
Marc (ម៉ាក) Vanhemelryck (វ៉ាន់ហេមិលរីក)


Joined: 9/22/2006
Posts: 262
Lars Tungen wrote:
I wish the development team would stop adding new horrible features and bloat. Instead they should focus on stability, security and performance.

 I cannot really agree on that one. DNN 5 is all about adding multi-language. If you don't need the new features, nobody forces you to upgrade. The "Critical Updates Available" is confusing, but that's all it is. New CE users will fall for that.

I wish the development team would implement the new features right from the first time, but that doesn't work in the real world.

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1/28/2011 3:18 AM
 
Lars Tungen


Joined: 10/4/2003
Posts: 108
Marc (ម៉ាក) Vanhemelryck (វ៉ាន់ហេមិលរីក) wrote:
Lars Tungen wrote:
I wish the development team would stop adding new horrible features and bloat. Instead they should focus on stability, security and performance.

 I cannot really agree on that one. DNN 5 is all about adding multi-language. If you don't need the new features, nobody forces you to upgrade. The "Critical Updates Available" is confusing, but that's all it is. New CE users will fall for that.

I wish the development team would implement the new features right from the first time, but that doesn't work in the real world.

DNN 5.x is about a lot more than multilanguage. It's also about bugfixes (core and modules), new .Net framework versions, API compatibility and more. And then you have the marketing of the 5.x. I don't see how new users can avoid installing the 5.x. You will need to be pretty involved in the community to now that the latest stable version is 4.9.5, and then be able to get it properly from Codeplex. For existing users there are several "forces" at play for the 5.x upgrade. Some core modules upgraded almost imideatly to the 5.x codebase (2-3 years ago?) . Like the forms and list and the reports module. If you want bugfixes for these modules you will need to upgrade your site. And I can't see any benefit of many sites being stuck with a version that many developers (core, core modules, bloggers, ++) left many years ago. 
 
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Marc (ម៉ាក) Vanhemelryck (វ៉ាន់ហេមិលរីក)


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Didn't I mention I wanted to keep my production site on 5.4.4 ? There are more stable versions in DNN 5 and less stable ones. Or maybe 5.4.4 was only a more stable one for my configuration, with the extensions and controls I use in my sites. I don't know. 5.5.0 came up with a very new solution for ML but a lot of new issues. I should be running 5.5 and 5.6 in my test setting at home, not on a real-time web server.
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1/28/2011 4:23 AM
 
Lars Tungen


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Marc (ម៉ាក) Vanhemelryck (វ៉ាន់ហេមិលរីក) wrote:
Didn't I mention I wanted to keep my production site on 5.4.4 ? There are more stable versions in DNN 5 and less stable ones. Or maybe 5.4.4 was only a more stable one for my configuration, with the extensions and controls I use in my sites. I don't know. 5.5.0 came up with a very new solution for ML but a lot of new issues. I should be running 5.5 and 5.6 in my test setting at home, not on a real-time web server.

 
Unfortunenately all DNN 5.x versions except 5.6.1 have serious security problems. The "Critical Upgrades" is justified in my opinion. An open door where any user can add or remove running code on the site is critical. 
 
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