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Note: breaking changes are no longer listed as this overview was unreliable for that. Make sure to read the version specific upgrades notes for guidance.
New Features
Features released in version 7.0.0
Breaking Changes
Breaking changes in version 7.0.0
Issues & Tasks
Issues & Tasks fixed in version 7.0.0
- U4-2778 - FileUploadValueEditor - need to create pre-values like we had in v6 including thumb sizes.
- U4-2850 - Cannot open legacy editors in a standalone window without being loaded within the main app
- U4-3148 - Change PublishById to return the published status and fix the listview to show the result.
Release Notes
Notes for version 7.0.0
Summary
Blog post
Blogs about pre-release versions of v7
Upgrading from Version 6
This is a major version, there are therefore several things you must be aware of before attempting to upgrade a site.
Upgrading from older versions?
- The version-specific upgrade guide be followed in conjunction with the general guide mentioned above
Whats new
- A brand new design of the entire application
- All new client-side layer, built on AngularJS and Twitter Bootstrap
- New Content, Media, Member and datatype editors
- Search driven navigation
- Better media handling and upload support
- List-views for big content collections
- Everything is faster
Besides the main points above, we've been tweaking every possible part of the application CSS, js and images, making this the fastest version ever.
Documentation for developers
With the shift towards AngularJS and with an entirely new way to build editors, property editors (the artists formerly known as datatypes and datatype editors) and to extend the UI, we have a (temporary) home for Umbraco 7 documentation
NOTE: However, please note that all serverside APIs are the same as in Version 6.x - in case we had to make any changes to them in v7, these have also been made to v6.2.0.
Breaking changes
There are several breaking changes, consult the Umbraco 7 upgrade documentation for further infomation
- Old property editors do not work anymore
- Old macro parameter editors do not work anymore
- Legacy API events have been disabled
- Legacy tree events have been disabled
- All configuration files have changed and must be migrated
- All code marked as obsolete since Version 4 has been removed
- There is no ImageCropper Property editor
- The Related Links property editor uses a new data format for xslt
- Complete list of breaking changes on the issue tracker