It can be used to set up community and corporate web sites or on-line stores.

Here are some key features of "Kentico CMS":

· Easy-to-use editor
· Blogs
· Workflow
· Forums
· International Support
· E-commerce
· Advanced Security
· Event Calendar and Booking System
· Rapid Development
· Newsletter
· Open API a Extensibility
· Image Gallery
· Easy Deployment and Content Staging
· On-line Forms
· Friendly URLs and SEO
· Private Messaging
· Full-text Search
· Polls
· Web Analytics
· Wiki
· Reporting
· Geomapping

Limitations:

· Free edition:
· 1 global administrator user account per installation
· 1 editor per web site
· 1000 documents/pages per web site
· 100 site members per web site
· you are required to put the Powered by Kentico CMS logo in the footer of all pages managed by Kentico CMS
· the support is available only through forums without any guarantee (e-mail and phone support is only available for the users of the paid editions and for evaluators)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

NEW:
· Attachments – New properties were added to store metadata information such as title and description.
· Bi-directional staging – Support for synchronization across multiple servers in both directions.
· Custom tables/Forms – New filters to filter Custom table and Form items.
· Documents – Preview link – Allows to display the latest version of a document outside of CMS Desk.
· Form controls – CAPTCHA controls – More types of CAPTCHA controls for protection.
· General - HTML5 Multimedia Support
· Meta files – New properties were added to store metadata information such as title and description.
· New control: Universal viewer – Renders content of a specified document using transfromations. Provides improved support for displaying of hierarchical data.
· New Kentico Installation Manager - Allows to manage Kentico CMS installations from one place, to apply hotfixes and upgrades and to manage Windows Services of the installations
· New module - Contact management and segmentation. Allows to gather, manage and process information about visitors on one place
· New Silent Install. Allows to install Kentico CMS from command line
· Sample site – New sample Corporate Site web site.
· Services - REST/ODATA Service
· Side by side comparison – Provides comparison of two language versions of a document.
· Single sign-on – Allows switching between CMS Desk of different sites without the need to sign-on.
· Staging – Document permissions are synchronized with a document.
· Transformations – Several new transformation methods.
· UI – Icons in content tree – New icons in the Content tree display status of a document.
· Utilities - Import Toolkit Utility
· Validators – Provides a set of validators to validate documents against validation standards, including XHTML valdiator, CSS validator and link checker.
· Web parts – Admin actions web part – Provides links to administration user interface.
· Web parts – Google and Bing translator web parts – Allow to translate page content using these external services.
· WebDAV – Browse mode – Allows mapping all supported types of content as a network drive.

Changes:
· AD Import Utility – Minor improvements in user interface.
· API Improvements - Better customization with new handlers.
· Bad words – New bad word property to match only whole words in checked text.
· Caching Improvements - Client caching + Output caching in filesystem.
· Controls - More controls and web parts now generate US Section 508 valid markup.
· Custom tables - Records may be managed via Site Manager too
· Date time picker – Rewritten to a new version.
· Debug - New IO and aggregated debug, all debugs can be enabled from settings in the Site Manager.
· Document categories – Site separation (you can share categories across multiple websites or keep them completely separate)
· E-commerce – Text product option (custom text which can be defined for the given product, e.g. label on a T-shirt)
· E-mail engine - Support for AlternativeView when sending HTML + plain text versions of an e-mail
· Events - Support for multi-day events
· Files management – Integration of multi-file uploader into the whole user interface
· Form engine - New Field Editor and support for Form control parameters
· General - Web part containers, queries, CSS style sheets and transformations may be edited or created from CMSDesk
· Image editor – Support for Undo/Redo actions and Cropping tool
· Import/Export – Direct upload of a package from import wizard user interface.
· Membership – Added support for password reset e-mail approval by users.
· Messaging – Support for bulk actions with messages.
· Multivariate testing – Allows you to define any number of elements on a page as variables test the performance of each one.
· New module: Membership – Can be used to define special types of user membership for the website (or globally for all sites in the system).
· Newsletter - Support for double opt-in
· Polls - Separate polls per site
· Portal engine – Support of mixed portal engine and ASPX mode.
· Reporting – Support for hierarchical reports.
· Security – New document type permissions ‘Create anywhere’ and ‘Create’ to better handle permissions for creation of documents.
· Settings – Support for creating hierarchical settings
· Smart search – Ability to define custom search indexes.
· Smart search – Smart search preview in Site Manager.
· System tables - Support for management of views and stored procedures
· Themes - CSS styles for components (transformations, web parts, page templates, etc.).
· Url rewriting – Reduced number of redirects.
· Web analytics – Conversion management.
· Web farms – Server availability checker.
· Web part – Google Analytics – Support for asynchronous scripts.
· Widgets – New set of widgets.
· Windows Azure – Ability to configure application settings in the service configuration file.
· Workflow – The Archive button is displayed in each step of a workflow.
· WYSIWYG editor – FCK editor was replaced by new CK editor

Bug fixes:
· Attachments - Unsorted attachments weren't displayed correctly in the Properties section of CMS Desk in special cases.
· Documents - Cross-site linked documents displayed a page not found error in special cases. If you encounter this problem, you have to add the following appSettings key to the web.config file: .
· Documents - The Document selector form control didn't work correctly when used on linked documents.
· Documents - The DocumentNamePath field wasn't trimmed properly after a document was updated.
· Import/Export - Module folders weren't imported correctly in special cases.
· Import/Export - The Import and Export processes couldn't handle some special characters in the data.
· Intranet Portal - If you wish to use Quick links widgets (Department quick links, Workgroup quick links, Intranet quick links), please open the Site Manager, select Development -> Widgets, find the widget in the Intranet Portal category and replace the default application paths in the Text property with the path of your application.
· Intranet Portal - Role permissions weren't set correctly in special cases for Forum and Media library objects created as part of a department.
· Intranet Portal - The RSS Forum posts page template incorrectly also displayed department forum posts. To fix this issue, please see the instructions at the end of this document.
· Licensing - OpenID authentication wasn't included with the Social networking package.
· Linked documents - Document name path of linked documents wasn't handled correctly in special cases.
· List mode - Duplicate messages were displayed when a node with no child documents was selected.
· Macros - The (handlesinjection) macro parameter was propagated to all macros following after the first occurrence of a macro with this parameter set.
· Macros - The (handlessqlinjection) macro parameter wasn't automatically added to the web part properties resolver.
· Macros - The (notrecursive) macro parameter was propagated to all macros following after the first occurrence of a macro with this parameter.
· Media library - Web farm tasks for creating new media files didn't check the value of the 'CMSWebFarmMaxFileSize' web config key.
· Medium trust - It was impossible to delete a site while using .NET 4.0 in a medium trust environment.
· Membership - CMSRoleProvider didn't work correctly with allowed roles specified in the authorization section of the web.config file.
· Membership - Updating the settings of a user could cause duplicate records when performed under a heavy load.
· Message boards - Original and linked documents didn't share the same message board data.
· Messaging - Actions were not hidden properly when error occurred during sending a message.
· Messaging - It was incorrectly possible to reply/forward a message with an empty message body.
· Mobile support - PDF files weren't opened correctly in the Android mobile browser.
· Newsletters - A newsletter issue template was incorrectly required to create a new dynamic newsletter.
· Notifications - The e-mail notification gateway logged an exception if the notification control couldn't be found.
· Notifications - The notification sender wasn't thread safe.
· On-line forms - File extension validation was skipped if the size of the file was 0 bytes.
· Page templates - Document inheritance was ignored for templates set as master templates.
· Page templates - When selecting document content inheritance levels, incorrect items were displayed in special cases if the path contained linked documents.
· Permissions - The drop-down list for site selection didn't refresh the permission matrix when used via a modal dialog.
· Project management - Ad-hoc (personal) tasks were causing an error during the import procedure.
· Project management - Users and roles couldn't be deleted in special cases due to project or task dependencies.
· Relationships - Relationships not assigned to the current site were displayed in CMS Desk -> Properties.
· Relationships - The path to the related document wasn't stored in a textbox field if the related document was on the right side.
· Reporting - Line graphs caused an exception when displaying data with only one record.
· Resource strings - Users weren't able to edit resource strings if the database contained a record with an empty KeyName field.
· Security - Moving the position of a document was allowed in special case even if the user didn't have the Modify permission.
· Security - The password retrieval feature in the Logon form web part didn't work correctly in special cases.
· SharePoint integration - Web parts didn't display columns with special characters in their name.
· Smart search - Index rebuilding didn't work with specific environment settings.
· Smart search - Special characters entered into the search keywords could cause a parsing exception in special cases.
· Smart search - The maximum search field size was set to a default value without the possibility of changing it. If you wish to change this value, you can now set the CMSSearchMaxFieldLength appSettings key in the web.config file.
· Web parts - The XML Data source web part didn't work correctly with feeds using additional namespaces.
· Web parts and controls - The content of the Editable text web part wasn't validated to reflect maximum length when the Check in action was used.
· Web parts and widgets - Localization macros weren't resolved in the titles of web parts and widgets.
· WebDAV - rebuilding of the source code caused an assembly version conflict.
· Widgets - The widget selector didn't display widgets in sub-categories correctly in special cases.
· Windows authentication - Updating the settings of a user caused duplicate records when performed under a heavy load with windows authentication enabled. You can set the appSetting key CMSUpdateLastLogonForExternalUsers to false to limit unwanted user updates.
· Windows authentication - Windows authentication caused a redirection loop when a site was accessed by a user disabled in the system.
· Workflow - Having the root node under workflow without check-in/check-out caused an error during the saving process.
· Workflow - The check-in operation on the Versions tab of documents didn't work correctly in special cases.
· WYSIWYG editor - The border of the WYSIWYG editor wasn't displayed properly in Firefox 4.
· WYSIWYG editor - The WYSIWYG editor didn't work properly when it was placed in an update panel.
· WYSIWYG editor - UI personalization didn't work correctly for the editor toolbar while using the Turkish culture.
· Yahoo Map - The "Show scale control" and "Show navigation control" properties of the web part didn't work correctly.