8.7.0 - Blocks, Publish, Settings

This is a major minor release of uSync, that brings support for Umbraco 8.7 block editors, but also lots of new features that fully backwards compatible with Umbraco 8.x installations.

What's new

Lots of features have been added in this release, aimed mainly at making the UI cleaner and it easier to setup and publish content.

Block Support

Full support for the new Umbraco Block Editor - meaning media and content inside a block editor will be deployed between sites when its referenced.

Improved Dashboard

A better server management dashboard for controlling your servers.

Streamlined setup

Making it easier to get a server setup.

Scheduled Publishing

Set what time you want something to publish on the server you send it to.

Language Publishing

If you are running a multlingal site you can choose to just publish some of the languages to another installation

Cleaner publish UI

All the complex stuff has been put behind an 'advanced options' button, so its less likely to confuse editors.

Push System files 🤯(experimental 🧪)

The ability to push system files between sites.

Installing

The recommended way to install uSync.Complete is via Nuget as part of your websites visual studio project:

PM>install-package uSync.Complete -version 8.7.0

Note

uSync 8.7.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards. However, we recommend you update your Umbraco installations to latest versions where possible, because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.4.x

v8.6.3 - uSync sync version sync.

This patch updates uSync.Complete to use the latest version of uSync/uSync.Content Edition (8.6.5) - it also includes a couple of small fixes.
all our big feature updates are coming with v8.7 - see what's coming)

Fixes:

• #35 fix an issue with relative paths within syncpack files that also include view/css files.
• #54 fixes an issue when uSync app_data folders are inside a short folder name in windows, which can sometimes cause issues when calculating relative folder names.
• #58 breaking change in content edition breaks member/user serizliers when content edition is upgraded.

Feature

• Add toggle to include Dictionary Items in a sync pack. (#57)

Installing

The recommended way to install uSync.Complete is via Nuget as part of your websites visual studio project:

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.6.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards. However, we recommend you update your Umbraco installations to latest versions where possible, because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.4.x

v8.6.2 - Patch Release

Release Notes

This is a base patch release to ensure that uSync.Complete installs with the latest version of uSync (v8.6.3) - there are no updates to the code past v8.6.1.1 - but we wanted to ensure that new installations got the benefit of the patches in uSync 8.6.3 (see release notes for info).

• #34 Update uSync Dependencies to latest (8.6.3)
• #29 fix when using app_data and long file names, temp storage can fail (from 8.6.1.1)

Installing

The recommended way to install uSync.Complete is via Nuget as part of your websites visual studio project:

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.6.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards. However, we recommend you update your Umbraco installations to latest versions where possible, because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.4.x

v8.6.1.1 - AppData & Long username patch

This is a single patch release to fix a 'rare' issue with AppDataPath, Long usernames and roaming profiles. you don't need to apply this update unless you experience this issues:

Fixes:

• #29 Using AppDataTemp and Long usernames with domains can cause issues.

For full details of the v8.6 release of uSync.Complete see the blog post

Installing

The recommended way to install uSync.Complete is via Nuget as part of your websites visual studio project:

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.6.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards, we just recommend you update Umbraco because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.4.x

v8.6.1 - Path Release

This is a patch release to help us debug some potential issues with publishing (not yet confirmed).

We have some reports of strange behaviour when publishing items on Azure. We haven't been able to recreate these issues yet, but this release adds a lot more debug level logging around the management of the zip folders and temporary files. Hopefully this will help us identify any issues. It is possible this is not a uSync issue, but we are increasing logging to help us identify and possible issues.

You do not need to update to this version of the package unless you have specific azure issues and need us to look into the logs.

v8.6.0 - Network mode

This is a feature release of uSync, containing new features and fixes.

Features:

• Publisher Button is now on by default
• Allow configured message on push/pull screens
• Publisher icon is now the truck
• Network Mode for simpler shared server config (single config)
• Support for syncing public access permissions on nodes
• Inline media/file upload syncing support

For more details see the 8.6 release blog post

v8.5.1 - Patch Release

This is a patch release for uSync.Complete containing fixes. (also maintains uSync.Complete and uSync version compatability)

Fixes

• #22 Push Fails, when global ContactResolvers set camelCase on all JSON serialization
• Fix for agency licencing with certain domain setups.

See Also

• All uSync 8.5.1 release fixes and updates are included:
• we have released a new docs site for all our products https://docs.jumoo.co.uk/

Installing

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.5.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards, we just recommend you update Umbraco because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.3.x

v8.5.0 - Timeout Protection + lots more

This is a Minor release of uSync.Complete to v8.5.0 - it contains fixes, enhancements and will work with all version of Umbraco 8.x^*

Updates

• Publisher now splits out the individual steps into individual requests at a time, reducing the time of any single request, (azure timeout prevention)
• you can now override core server settings in the web.config making it easier to transform your settings (see docs)
• Improved debugging logging across the code, with verbose logging options for the HMAC security elements to aid with connection issues.
• Full Static Publisher support: we will be releasing the static publisher package (and code) so you can publish to files, FTP or SFTP locations,
• You can now Sync Languages in the Server Sync Page.
• Post report trimming: Removes files that haven't changed after the report stage - making the import faster.
• Better error dialogs - so you can check the errors, and send bug reports if required.
• baseUrl setting means you can change the URL of the requests, (if you have funky load balancing).
• Static publisher (uSync.Publisher.Static) lets you push a static version of your site to a folder, ftp server or sftp server.

Fixes:

• Fix: Export menus fail on templates and partial views
• Fix: Bouncing truck bounces

See Also

• All uSync 8.5 release fixes and updates are included:
• we have released a new docs site for all our products https://docs.jumoo.co.uk/

Installing

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.5.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards, we just recommend you update Umbraco because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.3.x

v8.4.3 - Media, Check-boxes and stuff.

Release Updates

This is a patch update for uSync.Complete. It contains fixes to make sure media attributes (such as width/height etc) are updated during a push/pull.

• Fix: Ensure the auto-calculated properties (width, height, extension) are calculated when media is copied
• Fix: Error when you push an empty media folder
• Fix: Healthchecks fail if the receive folder is empty.
• UI Update: Add a dirty content warning when publishing from the 'button menu'
• UI Update: Change options to checkboxes and align.
• UI Update: Check access button returns after 2 seconds (so you can check again)
• uSync: Update to use uSync 8.4.3

Installing

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.4.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards, we just recommend you update Umbraco because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.3.x

8.4.2 - Media Files Fix

Release Notes

This is a patch update for uSync.Complete, it contains a few UI fixes (spelling!) and one fix for an issue where media files may not be copied between sites when publishing.

• #19 Fix so that the media file portion of the sync uses the 'publisher' handlers to ensure files get copied.
• Fix a type in the "nothing has changed" text
• update to uSync 8.4.1 to get better DocTypeGrid Support

Installing

PM>install-package uSync.Complete

Note

uSync 8.4.x will work with all version of Umbraco v8.0 upwards, we just recommend you update Umbraco because there are a lot of performance and cache fixes in version past 8.3.x