What's new in DNN5

So it seems DNN have been busy over the Xmas period - including launching DNN 5 - http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/279/dotnetnuke-491-and-500-released.aspx

Here's the official blog announcement - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2122/DotNetNuke-5-0-0-Released.aspx

And here's the full change release notes (way too much detail) - http://support.dotnetnuke.com/Main.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fproject%2fChangeLog.aspx%3fPROJID%3d2&PROJID=2

So here's the highlight bullet points:

• There's new support for XHTML and CSS in skins - removing lots of the non CSS features (table dependent things) - skins should now be much easier to design - they should be less DNN specific.
  
• jQuery support has been added - along with a widget framework (widgets being a bit like modules only 100% javascript)
  
• Beneath the covers there are more unit tests and more testability - which should lead to long term improvements and stability
  
• IE8 web slice support has been added
• The installer has been improved
  
• Admin pages are now no longer quite so special - they're now just normal pages with admin rights - also "deny" has been added as well as "allow" to all the permissions grids.
  

So.... overall it doesn't seem that big a set of changes... but it is the way forwards.... so time for me to install it (even though I normally wait for a week or two to let key security and other fixes come to light)