Last week, DotNetNuke Corp announced the availability of DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.1. This edition is the latest release of its web content management and application development framework for business-critical websites and web applications built on Microsoft .NET. The DotNetNuke Professional Edition is built on the same open source core as the free DotNetNuke Community Edition but includes several exclusive features and is fully supported and documented. The annual DotNetNuke Professional Edition subscription costs $1,999 per instance.
New features added to both the community and professional editions of DotNetNuke 5.1 include:
- Added Management Console to simplify access to admin functions
- Auditing for core tables to increase security
- Content Approval and Versioning
- Stop banners displaying and clickthrough count incrementing when indexed by crawlers
- Skin Event Handling
- Google Analytics Support
- Custom XML Sitemap Ranks
Besides the new features and normal bug fixes, DotNetNuke 5.1 also offers additional improvements over DotNetNuke 5.0 including:
- Upgrade to include FCKEditor 2.6.4 (WYSIWYG improvements)
- Update Scheduler to support multiple IIS Applications on same server
- Extended Permissions
- Indication of Module Usage on Module Definitions pages
- Web Server UI enhancements
- Upgrade to .NET 3.5
The DotNetNuke Professional Edition includes features that are not available in the Community Edition including:
- Support for advanced Google Analytics functionality, such as visitor type, landing page, role, or referrer segmentation
- Advanced content approval that allows administrators to create custom workflows with an unlimited number of states and reviewers
- Page, module and folder level extended permissions that provide more granular security rights
- A distributed caching provider for more efficient resource usage in web farms
- File integrity checking that reviews files in the installation and reports any inconsistencies that may impact website reliability
- Network-based health monitoring that pings the website periodically to identify failures and notify the site owner and that ensures the site stays in web server memory for faster user accessibility
- A vulnerability database that cross references each customer’s product version to easily identify potential