Major Highlights

• Implemented a new way of managing client resources which dramatically improves the performance of the product
• Implemented a device capability API that allows module and skin developers to build mobile solutions
• Implemented a site redirection API that allows mobile visitors to be shown a custom experience
• Implemented a Site Groups API that empowers organizations to implement single sign on in multitenant environments
• Removed the whitespace filter, this was used for stripping whitespaces from the generated page content following a Regular Expression.
• In a previous release, the DotNetNuke.Entities.Content.Common.ContentExtensions namespace was renamed to DotNetNuke.Entities.Content.ContentExtensions. In this release, the namespace was changed to its original name
• Fixed the order of the pages in the Control Panel when adding new pages
• Improved usability in the Edit Extensions Page
• Telerik resource files were updated to version 915 release
• Updated the Portals Module and Site Settings to consistently display site instead of portal
• The community modules have been removed from the installation package and will be available through the Extensions Catalog

Security Fixes

• Browsers support the ability to remember common strings such as usernames/addresses etc. Code was added to ensure this does not occur when dealing with a password
• The messaging component was added in DotNetNuke 5.5.0 and allows for inter-user communication. Text entered into it was failing to validate for certain XSS issues and has now been updated to resolve the issue

Updated Modules/Providers

Modules

• HTML version 6.1.0

Providers

• none