DotNetNuke tutorials, tips and tricks: DotNetNuke 5.1 Released

Its been 18 months in the making, but its finally here! DotNetNuke Community edition version 5.1 is now available for download.

Here is a rundown of the improvements you can expect from this exciting new release:

Major Highlights

Added Content Versioning and simple workflow to the HTML module.
Added Admin Console module to simplify access to administrator and host pages
Added publicly accessbile skin engine lifecycle events
Added audit trails to core system tables
Added built in support for Google Analytics
Added custom sitemap priorities
Enhanced the permission system to use the provider model, allowing for custom permission providers
Enhanced caching to enable access by distributed caching systems
Enhanced installation and upgrade logic to automatically detect .Net 3.5 and to upgrade the web.config as appropriate.
Enhanced the extensions pages to show which modules are used and to show the pages where they are currently in use
Enhanced the Scheduler to show a checklist of available servers in the webfarm where scheduled tasks can be executed.
Enhanced the Scheduler to support multiple instances running on the same server
Fixed issue with removing Superuser role from a user.
Fixed issue with deleting users which was not fully recognized by the rest of the application.
Fixed issue with upgrades which would fail if .Net 3.5 was installed
Fixed issue with skins installed using the batch installer.
Fixed change to GetModulesByDefinition API method which resulted in breaking change from DotNetNuke 4.x
Fixed CloakText API method which was broken in 5.0.1
Fixed issue with stored procedure for Dashboard which would fail with an error if database account did not have permissions to the MSDB database.
Fixed issue where pages added while on a host page will not be associated with a portal.
Fixed issue where the ReturnURL for the SendPassword and Register links on the Login page were broken.
Updated Modules/Providers
The following modules and providers have been updated in the 5.1.0 packages. Please see the specific project pages for notes on what bugs or enhancements were corrected with each release.