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:
· Administration UI: HTML editor is used for editing invoice.
· Administration UI: Link to an existing document can be created from the context menu.
· Administration UI: New macro selector control is used to insert all possible macros to the text.
· Administration UI: Color picker control now includes preview of the selected color.
· Administration UI: Section summary for the pages of administration UI.
· Administration UI: Minor improvements in all UI.
· General: Improved output filter functionality.
· General: All regular expressions for validation and macro resolving were optimized.
· General: Performance optimizations for amount of data and memory consumption.
· General: Configurable selection between standard and session authentication cookies.
· Ecommerce: Product price can be optionally displayed with or without tax.
· Ecommerce: Product option list can be now paged.
· Ecommerce: User account can be created at the same time as customer account from CMSDesk.
· Ecommerce: All currency related values can be now recalculated when changing main currency.
· Ecommerce: Tax class details can be edited when selecting tax classes for specified product.
· Ecommerce: Shopping cart process step indexes can be now optionally hidden or visible.
· Ecommerce: My Account web part tabs can be now displayed either in horizontal or vertical layout.
· Ecommerce: Shipping options are now displayed with their charge in the checkout process.
· Ecommerce: All errors while loading payment provider, payment form or checkout process step are now logged.
· Event log: Event details can be exported to the file.
· Event log: Events can be optionally logged to the file now.
· Modules: Module description field was added.
· Modules: Module permission description field was added.
· Modules: New Display permission for all modules. Module is now hidden in tools menu when user is not granted with module display permission.
· Newsletter: Imported users can be optionally subscribed / unsubscribed to the selected newsletters.
· Newsletter: Email queue can be now deleted at once.
· Scheduler: User can see how many times each task was executed.
· Settings: Settings can be exported to the file.
· Staging: Reject task is now generated for synchronization with target server when document is rejected.
· Staging: Update doc task is now generated for synchronization with target server when document is moved up or down in the content tree.
· System: Testing e-mails can be sent with attachments.
· Web farms: Web farm synchronization tasks can be now filtered by server.
· Web farms: Servers can be now disabled to avoid tasks logging for them.
· Web farms: MachineName field was added to the web farm tasks.
· Web parts: Improved scrolling text web part.
· Web parts: Improved current user web part.
Changes:
· General: XHTML output filter is now turned off by default on all sample web sites.
· Web parts: Properties NestedRepeaterID and NestedDataListID were replaced by NestedControlsID property.
Bug fixes:
· Administration UI: RTL languages layout was completely reviewed and fixed.
· Administration UI: Some pages weren't properly handled for cross-site scripting.
· Administration UI: Minor fixes for IE7 and FF3.
· Administration UI: Security fixes for some UI pages
· BizForms: Incorrect security check was applied in permission dialog.
· BizForms: Administration of BizForm layout used too strict permissions.
· Booking module: Event allowed negative capacity.
· CMSDesk: Select file dialog couldn't upload file on Windows Vista.
· CMSDesk: Document links with workflow could cause inconsistency in document tree if the document was moved.
· CMSDesk: Notify when leaving page wasn't applied in some cases.
· CMSDesk: Spell checker didn't work for words with some culture-specific characters.
· CMSDesk: Published information in document properties wasn't evaluated properly.
· CMSDesk: The document wasn't inserted on the correct position when the default order was changed from alphabetical to first.
· Content: Metadata content wasn't properly encoded to the output HTML.
· Content: When the image caching was on, original image could be returned instead of the resized image.
· Content: Cached attachment wasn't removed from the cache if the attachment was updated from API.
· Content: ASPX editable controls were losing the content with specific workflow operations.
· Content: Copying of published document didn't include the published attachments.
· Content: Rollback to the oldest version in version history could lose the version attachments.
· Content: File field could lose the attachment when copying the culture version from specific language.
· Content: When the attachment field of the document type was removed, attachments weren't deleted.
· Content: Allowed extensions for upload fields didn't have the same format in all settings.
· Content: Uploaded files allowed "+" sign in the filename, which couldn't be correctly processed by IIS7.
· Content: GetFile script didn't handle the permissions correctly.
· Controls: Editable image could cause null reference exception in specific scenarios.
· Controls: Radiobutton list form control didn't apply some settings correctly.
· Controls: Form control text area didn't validate the field length properly.
· Controls: Property UseImagePath for editable image control didn't work properly.
· Controls: Radiobutton list form control couldn't have empty default value.
· Controls: Change password control didn't handle the Visible property correctly.
· Documentation: Minor fixes in the documentation.
· ECommerce: Payment methods and Shipping options weren't displayed properly in their selection.
· ECommerce: Available amount validation could not work correctly in specific scenarios.
· E-mails: Some e-mails contained multiple Content-Type headers.
· E-mails: GetEmailTemplates method threw an exception.
· File import: Files couldn't be imported to the location covered by workflow process.
· General: Automatic import of Windows authenticated users wasn't working correctly for non-existing users.
· General: Changing the code name of the web site could cause problems with live site if the application wasn't restarted.
· General: Application couldn't properly start in Integrated mode of IIS7.
· General: Culture of the live site wasn't changed correctly in some cases with full page caching configuration.
· General: Uzbek cultures weren't defined properly.
· General: Changing the order of items didn't clear the cached objects properly.
· General: Localized transformations weren't cached.
· General: Float number validation and conversion couldn't handle small numbers with exponent.
· General: Param tag of the object element could cause incorrect HTML code when processed by output filter.
· Import/Export: Forum posts weren't properly imported from old version package.
· Import/Export: Custom web part categories couldn't be handled by import process in some specific cases.
· Import/Export: Some delete tasks couldn't be processed correctly on import.
· Import/Export: Existing site was deleted if import fails because of the existing site with the same name.
· Import/Export: Process log couldn't work in specific scenarios.
· Import/Export: Preselection of objects wasn't working properly when repeated.
· Import/Export: Next button wasn't disabled in FF3.
· Import/Export: Document fields with only field length changed weren't updated on import.
· Newsletter: Some e-mails could use different culture for unsubscription link and for other newsletter content.
· Newsletter: Newsletter module couldn't handle large amount of e-mails in specific scenarios.
· Newsletter: Some e-mails were duplicated in specific scenarios.
· Newsletter: Resend functionality wasn't working properly.
· Newsletter: Scheduled task for the newsletter wasn't rescheduled if configuration changed.
· Newsletter: New issue couldn't be placed to the Newsletter archive
· Newsletter: Generation of the e-mail queue was using too many database queries.
· Newsletter: Some newsletter pages didn't check all required permissions.
· Newsletter: Newsletter archive didn't resolve the macros properly.
· Output filter: Button text containing tag characters could damage the output HTML code.
· Polls: Multiple polls couldn't work properly on the same page.
· Polls: Incorrect security check was applied in permission dialog.
· Portal engine: Some pages could be displayed with wrong page template in heavy load.
· Portal engine: If the CSS stylesheet of the site wasn't set, the page generated an empty stylesheet tag.
· Sample web sites: Minor fixes in design and HTML code of the page templates and stylesheets.
· Scheduler: Some tasks could run two times under specific conditions.
· SiteManager: Some Administration pages could be accessed from CMSDesk in SiteManager context.
· SiteManager: User couldn't be deleted when he was allowed to be forum moderator.
· SiteManager: Site culture couldn't be changed in license editions without multilingual support.
· SiteManager: Localized transformation name couldn't be entered in transformation properties.
· SiteManager: Document type editing pages didn't have the same length.
· Staging: Document task didn't contain product information when the product was created from the new document dialog.
· URL Rewriting: Some URLs weren't resolved correctly for cookieless configuration.
· URL Rewriting: Messaging pages weren't properly excluded from URL rewriting and were logged as not existing content pages.
· URL Rewriting: Page wasn't properly redirected in specific cases with FF browser.
· Web analytics: Log processing couldn't handle large amount of data at once.
· Web analytics: Returning visitors were logged only on the second visit.
· Web farms: Too many web farm tasks or too much web farm task data could kill the application on it's start.
· Web parts: Clone web part couldn't work with some specific web part settings.
· Web parts: Content slider wasn't working properly if the delay time was 0.
· Web parts: Google maps web part couldn't handle API key for both domains with and without www.
· Web parts: Query repeater web part didn't use the Item separator property correctly.
· Web parts: User contribution web part couldn't resolve the path properties.
· Web parts: Language selector didn't display culture names in ASPX page templates.
· Web parts: Date and time web part couldn't handle some format expressions.
· Web parts: Contact and ignore list didn't use the Zero rows text property properly.
· Web parts: Video web part wasn't working properly in FF3.