Hi! First I want to say I'm extremely new to Umbraco and only did a test install a few days ago using the Web Platform Installer.
But I was looking into it not to long ago where the information I found said it was discontinued. So I didn't go any further then. Recently I found that only the 5.x version was discontinued but development continued with 4.x.
Now I'm going to do a new manual installation but I find that there are two versions. 4.11.4 and 6.0.0.
I understand that it did a jump from 4.x to 6.x because the 5.x was discontinued. But how much difference is it from 4.11.4 to 6.0.0? Are the 6.0.0 version complete and ready? Will it replace the 4.x versions, and how soon? Should I go for 6.0.0 now, or go for 4.11.4 and wait a bit before moving to 6.x?
Umbraco is certainly NOT discontinued - as you have figured out the development of v5 was discontinued in june 2012 because it unfortunately suffered from some serious performance issue that could not be fixed in a reasonable amount of time.
Therefore development of v4 continued with the aim of taking the best concepts and ideas to put in to new versions of Umbraco. Since Umbraco 4.10 MVC has been implemented and MVC was one of the new things in Umbraco 5.
Furthermore the codebase is being cleaned up and many bugs have been fixed.
Umbraco 6 has just been released and the focus for v6 is some much nicer internal and external API's.
The idea is to have a much more agile development process where everything is not build from scratch but where each major release has focus on a certain area. So in short v6 is about the API's and v7 is all about the UI of the backoffice, which indeed also needs an overhaul :)
So in short the Umbraco project is a live and is really healthy and exciting things are coming in 2013.
v6 is fresh and stable so I think you should go for it - However not all of the popular packages have been upgraded to be compatible with v6 yet but hopefully they will soon follow if the creators have not abandoned them - But I guess that most of the really popular packages have been upgraded to support v6.
What is this 6.0.0 and should I go for it?
Hi! First I want to say I'm extremely new to Umbraco and only did a test install a few days ago using the Web Platform Installer.
But I was looking into it not to long ago where the information I found said it was discontinued. So I didn't go any further then. Recently I found that only the 5.x version was discontinued but development continued with 4.x.
Now I'm going to do a new manual installation but I find that there are two versions. 4.11.4 and 6.0.0.
I understand that it did a jump from 4.x to 6.x because the 5.x was discontinued. But how much difference is it from 4.11.4 to 6.0.0? Are the 6.0.0 version complete and ready? Will it replace the 4.x versions, and how soon? Should I go for 6.0.0 now, or go for 4.11.4 and wait a bit before moving to 6.x?
Hi Espen and welcome to our :)
Umbraco is certainly NOT discontinued - as you have figured out the development of v5 was discontinued in june 2012 because it unfortunately suffered from some serious performance issue that could not be fixed in a reasonable amount of time.
Therefore development of v4 continued with the aim of taking the best concepts and ideas to put in to new versions of Umbraco. Since Umbraco 4.10 MVC has been implemented and MVC was one of the new things in Umbraco 5.
Furthermore the codebase is being cleaned up and many bugs have been fixed.
Umbraco 6 has just been released and the focus for v6 is some much nicer internal and external API's.
You can see what is in pipeline on this roadmap: http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/roadmap
The idea is to have a much more agile development process where everything is not build from scratch but where each major release has focus on a certain area. So in short v6 is about the API's and v7 is all about the UI of the backoffice, which indeed also needs an overhaul :)
So in short the Umbraco project is a live and is really healthy and exciting things are coming in 2013.
v6 is fresh and stable so I think you should go for it - However not all of the popular packages have been upgraded to be compatible with v6 yet but hopefully they will soon follow if the creators have not abandoned them - But I guess that most of the really popular packages have been upgraded to support v6.
Hope this clarifies things a bit.
/Jan
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