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  Release History for Sitecore CMS 7.0

Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.

As part of our commitment to continually improving our software and listening to our customer’s feedback, Sitecore regularly releases new versions of our CMS product. Each release undergoes careful quality assurance procedures to minimize the number of issues.

April 10, 2014

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 140408 (7.0 Service Pack-1, originally released as 7.0 Update-5).

Note: This is a product Service Pack. Sitecore recommends customers to install service packs for any feature release that the customer has installed. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

For instructions on how to download and install this release, please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 7 downloads page.

Highlights
The main highlights of this update are:

System requirements

Issues resolved

January 22, 2014

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 140120 (7.0 Update-4).

Note: This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meet the specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

For instructions on how to download and install this release, please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 7 downloads page.

Highlights

The main highlights of this update are:

Improvements

Important changes

Deprecated classes, methods, and properties

Issues resolved

December 3, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 131127 (7.0 Update-3).

Note : This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if the fixes included in this release meet the specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

For instructions on how to download and install this release, please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 7 downloads page.

Highlights

The main highlights of this update are:

Improvements

Important changes

Deprecated classes, methods, and properties

Issues resolved

September 23, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 130918 (7.0 Update-2).

Note : This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if the fixes included in this release meet the specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

For instructions on how to download and install this release, please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 7 downloads page.

Highlights

The main highlight of this update is:

Improvements

Issues resolved

August 13, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 130810 (7.0 Update-1).

Note : This is a product Update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if the fixes included in this release meet specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 7 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights

The main highlights in this update are:

Note: This update contains a number of breaking changes in the Sitecore.ContentSearch namespaces. Please review the breaking changes before you upgrade to this update.

System requirements

Improvements

Breaking changes

Deprecated classes, methods, and properties

Important changes

Issues resolved

May 21, 2013

Released Sitecore CMS and DMS 7.0 rev. 130424 (7.0 Initial Release).

Note: This is a Feature Release. Sitecore recommends upgrading to this release when the fixes included in this release meet specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit by waiting until Sitecore releases a Service Pack for this series before upgrading. This is especially true in production environments.

Note: Starting with Sitecore 7.0, Sitecore will only use 2 levels in the version number (e.g. 7.0). Previous versions continue to use 3 levels in the version number (e.g. 6.6.0).

To learn more about Sitecore’s versioning system, see the Sitecore Versioning Policy page.

Important: A known issue has been identified in 6.6 Update-5 and 7.0 Initial Release which affects solutions upgraded to the CMS 7.0 Initial Release from 6.6 Update-4 or earlier 6.6 releases. Due to this issue, the upgrade instructions contain a step to execute an aspx page as part of the upgrade process. The issue does not affect clean installations of 7.0 or solutions upgraded from 6.6 Update-5 or later. Please refer to the known issue for more information.

Please visit the appropriate Sitecore CMS 7 downloads page for instructions describing how to download and install this release.

Highlights

The CMS 7.0 rev. 130424 initial release includes all the fixes from 6.6 Update-5.

The main highlights in this release are:

System requirements

Upgrade considerations

New and updated documentation

New features

Deprecated and removed features

Breaking changes

Important changes

Improvements

Issues resolved