Community Server 2.1 Now Available!

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rhoward Posted: Wed, Aug 9 2006 6:21 PM

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We’re please to announce the immediate availability of Community Server version 2.1!

If you are running ASP.NET version 1.1:

• Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Windows Install (MSI) for ASP.NET 1.1
• Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Web Install for ASP.NET 1.1

If you are running ASP.NET version 2.0:

• Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Windows Install (MSI) for ASP.NET 2.0
• Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Web Install for ASP.NET 2.0

In addition to bug fixes Community Server 2.1 contains some great new features and enhancements, some of which are listed below:

Improvements to existing Features

• New blogs skins – some professionally design blog skins to help make your blog stand-out.
• Improved Editor – simple to use WYSIWYG editor.
• Improved blog authoring experience – simplified workflow for creating, editing, and saving posts.
• Improved comment editing/management tools for blogs – designed to help you edit and manage a large number of comments quickly.
• Better SPAM Protection – changes to the built-in spam rules to more effectively deal with spam.
• New reports – new reports for a variety of statistics maintained by the Community Server database.
• Per-post answer status –allows users to track answer status on a per-post level for forum posts.
• Better fixed-width support – design changes to enable better support for fixed width sites.

New Features

• Tags – ability to add free form tags to content and then use tag clouds and other tools to filter content. 
• Content Mirroring – ability to configure a blog to be subscribed to one or more external RSS sources bringing that content into the site for visitors and making the content searchable.
• Post Relevance sorting – allows site owners to use new post relevance algorithm (optional) for blog aggregation page. This feature allows popular content to stay “above the fold” longer.
• Invitations – ability to configure site so that only invited users can join the community.
• Badges – members of the site each receive a community badge that can easily be displayed in a variety of locations, such as external blogs.
• Feedburner / external RSS support – easily use tools, such as Feedburner, for sharing your RSS feeds on blogs.
• Runs in Medium Trust – better support for hosting organizations that want to run ASP.NET applications in a reduced trust level.

We are also going to include the source code for both the File Gallery and the Reader in the SDK with the CS 2.1 release as well.

To help celebrate this release all commercial Editions and add-ons for Community Server (sold by Telligent) will be available starting August 10th at a 20% discount (for a limited time). Of course you can use the 100% free Express Edition too -- visit www.communityserver.org to learn more.

Please visit our store to take advantage of these offers:
https://store.telligentsystems.com/FamilyProducts.aspx?id=1

Thanks and enjoy Community Server 2.1!

P.S., the SDK will be released shortly too.

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Presstopia replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 6:39 PM

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Thanks - great stuff!!

Any changes from CS2.1 RC1 to the release version?
 

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davelee replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 6:40 PM

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rhoward:

We are also going to include the source code for both the File Gallery and the Reader in the SDK with the CS 2.1 release as well.

THAT is great news!

Great work, guys... Thanks!

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ajmaonline replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 6:41 PM

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Awesome! Thanks guys. Let's get the word out on this and digg it: http://digg.com/software/Community_Server_2_1_Now_Available

 Digg It !!

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Logik! replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 7:25 PM

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I love you guys and hate you guys at the same time!! 

I *just* bit the bullet today and upgraded at work to RC1 because I'm going to be out of the office all next week, and I figured that you wouldn't be ready to release it before Friday evening!!!

Just my luck!      Of  course, considering how easy the upgrade process is, it'll take just a few minutes to upgrade in the morning.   The fun part is that I can now upgrade my main site!

Logik!

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Nazul replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 7:27 PM

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Are the add-ons (like Email Gateway) updated also?

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Kingsley Tagbo replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 7:53 PM

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Great job folks!

 This sounds like the release to trump all releases!

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Ken Robertson replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 7:57 PM

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Nazul:

Are the add-ons (like Email Gateway) updated also?

Yes, we're working on posting those right now.  

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spdl replied on Wed, Aug 9 2006 8:11 PM

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Why do I get the notification message 3 times??

ralph 

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Vern H. Gill replied on Thu, Aug 10 2006 9:52 AM

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Any breaking changes from 2.0 to 2.1?

Have been busy trying to build a new 2.0 site to replace the 1.2 site, and now this comes along. Can I just drop this in and upgrade my db?

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chriskelly replied on Thu, Aug 10 2006 11:46 AM

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Any update to the windows auth? Or I can just upgrade normaly?

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daveburke replied on Thu, Aug 10 2006 4:03 PM

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Hey, Vern!

There's no CS 1.2.  Ya mean CS 1.1?  subText?  Anyways, sorry on not being about to drop one version into another.  Ben Tiedt wrote an excellent piece on this, but it's a bit technical.

http://getben.com/archive/2006/08/08/Updating-CS2.0-Themes-for-CS2.1.aspx

The good news is that this is the focus of CS 2.2 so that you won't have to do any re-stylin' from version to version after 2.2 comes out.

Dave