Friday, November 07, 2008 by Per Ploug Hansen

In the past week we’ve focused on removing serious businesslogic bugs, cross browser compatibility and polishing the UI.

Most remarkable result this week, is a reduction in back office load times of 70% compared
to Umbraco v3!

This means that any issues with backwards compatibility in the APIs are solved, we got full support for WebKit based browsers in the backend (Safari/Chrome), IE6 works again and quirks with Firefox andediting document type properties are solved.

We’ve also “leaned” the javascript library usage in umbraco, so we no longer rely on a lot of different libraries. 

At the same time we’re compressing client script files in our build process to make the umbraco UI much more lightweight – the complete size of client files have gone from 7.8mb to 287kb!

The release is available on codeplex with a full list of changes

14 comment(s) for “Umbraco 4, Beta 2, Take 2”

  1. Gravatar ImageArnold Visser Says:

    The progress in the last months, and certenly the last weeks is amazing!

    Thank you for delivering such a great product to us!

  2. Gravatar ImagePeter Gregory Says:

    Hi Guys great work!!! Be good tho if you didn't compress it on a Mac before you upload to codeplex. The zip file is full of Mac rubbish files... but other than that its great!!

  3. Gravatar ImageAmar Galla Says:

    Great work. Looking forward to trying this out soon.

  4. Gravatar ImageDag Erlandsen Says:

    Wanted to try it, but couldn't find any install instructions in the build or on umbraco.org, and the link to the "How to install" video ( http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/getting-started/installing-umbraco ) gives 404 ..

  5. Gravatar ImageJay Walker Says:

    I noticed that create packages isn't working in the 3233 beta2/take2 release. Do you have an ETA on when create packages will be working?

  6. Gravatar ImageRusty Zarse Says:

    Holy CR_P people, that's incredible! I've been waiting for v4 to reach this state for some time. I am incredibly impressed by what this post says of the codebase. I recently failed o implement SugarCRM because it became too bloated to be useful and is full of significant bugs. Umbraco has never been anything but top quality and now I know why. Thanks for the dedication and excellent work

  7. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:

    Thanks for all the feedback, we can confirm issues with creating items outside content/media areas, which is due to changes in the WebKit support. We'll fix for Fridays take 3 build.

  8. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:

    Issue is fixed and patch is easy to append to Beta 4, take 2:

    1) Open /umbraco/js/xtree.js
    2) Go to line 230 and change
    "if (parent.nodeID != this.nodeID) {"
    to
    "if (parent.nodeID != this.nodeID || parent.nodeType != this.nodeType) {"

  9. Gravatar ImageHans Sørensen Says:

    This is not a great archievement guys. This is a sign telling that something has been completely wrong before.

    But thank God it is now fixed. Looks promising.

  10. Gravatar ImageKarthik Says:

    Demos, documentations , downloads and forums on Umbraco:

    http://www.gplpedia.com/index.php?id=4&did=1

    Also checkout http://www.gplpediaslim.com

  11. Gravatar ImageKarthik Says:

    Demos, documentations , downloads and forums on Umbraco:

    http://www.gplpedia.com/index.php?id=4&did=1

    Also checkout http://www.gplpediaslim.com

  12. Gravatar Imagevictorantos IT contractor UK Says:

    Is it safe to use this version in production? :)

  13. Gravatar ImageDmitry Says:

    Where is the FORUM????? http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_topics25_Umbraco-4-Issues.aspx

  14. Gravatar ImageBachelor Degree Says:

    Yeah, IE6 could be really frustrating for coders.
    Hmmm...

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