Saturday, February 23, 2008 by Niels Hartvig

Our long awaited product - Courier - for handling umbraco deployment is getting more and more mature and is finally close for beta release.

Instead of having one major product, Courier will be spitted into two products; "Courier for Content" and "Courier for Development" with the first one coming in a beta release next month. Both products will revolutionize umbraco deployment and makes it possible to transfer content and functionality between servers just by dragging and dropping - it's really Drag. Drop. Deploy.

It has taken an incredible long time and almost three years of R&D with a ton of failed attempts to solve the deployment issue in a stable and intuitive matter, but now we've nailed it and it's actually fun to deploy.

The Courier for Content does what it says - it lets you transfer umbraco nodes related to content (including Media) from one place to another - usually being between Dev/Stage/Prod environments, but the perspective is even bigger. With Courier for Content you can plan new editions of sites behind a firewall and publish the whole section in one transaction with a single drag'n'drop operation. It's hard to describe in words (especially with my limited vocabulary ;-)) so I can't wait to get some screenshots/video uploaded.

Courier for Development will follow in Q2.

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9 comment(s) for “Courier for content - Drag. Drop. Deploy”

  1. Kenneth Solberg Says:

    Count me in ;-)

  2. Peter Gregory Says:

    Sounds awesome.

  3. apt-get Says:

    will it be open source?

  4. Hartvig Says:

    @apt-get: No. These commercial add-on products finance the development of the core of the open source product.

    When we create add-on products we're very cautious not excluding functionality from the core product that we think is an essential part of a web cms. This is why our work on the new editor, etc is included, but why we're justifying creating products like stats, courier and also Forms coming later.

    Best,
    Niels...

  5. Warren Buckley Says:

    Hi Niels,
    This seems EXCELLENT! As when I have done any umbraco development before I have been used to developing on a live site using a dev domain for eg

    dev.mydomain.co.uk and then just add a new host header in IIS when the site was ready.

    However its not possible to do this in some cases as you need a development version to build new features/content after the site has gone live.

    Well cant wait to see this and get my hands on this.

    Warren

  6. Ismail Mayat Says:

    Niels,

    This sounds mint! Any ideas yet on cost?

    Regards

    Ismail

  7. Daniel Bjørnbakk Says:

    Great news Niels!

    I'm looking forward to this releas :)

  8. Chris Koiak Says:

    Any news on when the beta for Courier Content or Developer will be released? I've been visiting the site daily in anticipation!

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