Looking for detailed new features list / bug fixes / improvements for CS2008.

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Rocket City Web Posted: Thu, Apr 24 2008 5:36 PM

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I'm having trouble finding a detailed description of new features / improvements / fixes in CS2008.  For starters, I would really like to understand exactly what the new Groups feature does.  Thanks for any help finding out more details about the new features.

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Ken Robertson replied on Fri, Apr 25 2008 12:08 PM

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The blogs on this site have a collection of information on groups and the new functionality.  Will try to link to a few quickly:

CS 2008 Announcement:  http://dev.communityserver.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/04/15/community-server-2008-now-available.aspx

Ben has been posting a series of posts, more technical focused:  http://getben.com/archive/2008/04/15/community-server-2008-notes-changes-and-new-features.aspx

Jose notes some changes:  http://dev.communityserver.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/10/16/upcoming-changes-to-community-server-2008.aspx

Rob talks about Hawaii (CS2008's codename):  http://telligent.com/blog/archive/introducing-hawaii.aspx

TelliCast episode with Jose about CS2008:  http://telligent.com/blog/archive/what-s-new-in-cs2008.aspx

Probably a bunch more spread throughout the site, but that should give you the gist of it. :)

If you are looking for more info on a particular feature, just ask.

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Rocket City Web replied on Fri, Apr 25 2008 3:43 PM

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Jose mentioned performance improvements, can you elaborate on this please?

I am really trying to make a decision on whether to move forward with CS 2008.  I have done such a large amount of customization, it is very time consuming and painful to upgrade; I am looking for incentive.  Performance gets my attention!

I am also wondering if a private message alert has now been added (or a conversation alert, I guess).  Minor item but it has been requested so many times.

 thanks for the links!

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dpenton replied on Fri, Apr 25 2008 5:51 PM

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 Rocket City Web,

For performance updates, I'll list them out here, to the best of my memory (hitting the highlights let's say )

1. there were a number of refactoring with the core components in Community Server that favored object not being created if they were not going to be used.
2. There were perfomance tweaks in several stored procedures as well, which includes some adjustment to the paging methodology we use in Community Server.  Instead of pulling in all records (ID only) and paging from that, we are pulling in only up to the page we are targeting.  This was done for calls to get users and some of the thread set calls.
3. There were micro optimizations to not box data on some string call
4. Within the development of the new Messaging system, we examined the indexes carefully to ensure they fit for the characteristics we were expecting
5. There were updates to existing systems, such as the Url and Referrer tables

Thanks,
David L. Penton