A new version of Kooboo CMS has been released at: http://kooboo.codeplex.com

This version contains some important changes include content workflow, content broadcasting and full text search.

Breaking change

1.Add four new system fields: OriginalRepository，OriginalFolder，IsLocalized，Sequence。If you are using SQL Server, SQLCe or MySql, please add the following four fields to the content dynamic tables.

OriginalRepository nvarchar(256) NULL
OriginalFolder nvarchar(256) NULL
IsLocalized bit NULL
Sequence bigint null

2.Due to the stability problem of RavenDb and the conflicts with Lucene.NET, we have removed the support for RavenDb.

New features

Site management:

- Add an EmptySite site template.

- Add enable version control setting in the site setting.

- Change page Title into HtmlTitle and add a new field callled ContentTitle to be used as the title field in the page content.


Content management

- Add Content broadcasting, to be used for content sharing between content repositories.

- Add workflow, used to control content publishing.

- Add full text search engine based on Lucene.NET.(Not supported on medium trust level)

- Add new content editing controltype: RadioList,CheckBoxList.

- Add three new content events: PreAdd,PreUpdate and PreDelete.

- Add role based control on folders.

- Add WHEREIN in the content query API.

- Add support for OrderBy... Then in the content query API.

- The syntax of custom template of Content type has been changed into Razor.


Bug fixed

- Ask users to confirm whether they would like to delete related content repository or not when deleting a website.

- Fixed bug when modifying content type.

- Fixed required validation error on Textarea field.

- Move the IncludeJquery option from page into global settings.

- Move CMS language setting into user profile.

- Fixed bug on WHEREBETWEEN content query API.

Thanks, you seem to add features just at the time I start to look for them :)

One thing I had a problem with though was the 'Sequence' column. I created it as bit NULL as listed here and on CodePlex and started getting an InvalidCastException ('Specified cast is not valid.') when editing content. I looked at a table created after the update and it was created as bigint. The data layer also expects a 'long' value. It's working fine now.