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Kentico CMS 4.1 Released
8/17/2009 - Kentico CMS 4.1 Released

Version 4.1 comes with enterprise-class Search engine and several usability improvements.

We have just released Kentico CMS 4.1 for ASP.NET. The new version comes with several improvements:

New Smart Search Engine
The Smart Search Engine allows you to quickly incorporate full-text search into your web site. It's based on the Lucene.NET search engine and it provides excellent performance and search results. The main features include:

* displaying search results based on the relevancy (search result ranking)
* displaying document preview in the search results
* customizable search filters and custom search queries
* customizable search scope - you can specify site section, document types and fields that should be searched

The new Smart Engine can be used side-by-side with existing SQL-based search engine.

New Dialogs for Inserting Images
Kentico CMS 4.1 greatly improves usability by introducing new dialogs for inserting images, music, video, YouTube and creating links. All file types can now be easily uploaded and inserted into the text. Main features include:

* Easily select an existing file or upload a new file
* The server automatically generates a resized version of the image if you change its size in the Insert image dialog
* easily upload and insert image into the text without uploading it first and then selecting it
* Insert image into the text and display a larger view on click or on mouse-over
* Specify the maximum size of the images and the system automatically resizes them on upload

New Concept of Document Attachments
Until now, the images and other files related to some page were stored separately in some folder or under the given page. The new concept of document attachments allows you to upload multiple files as a part of the document. It means versioning, workflow and permissions are also applied to the attached files. It makes the management of content much easier and more reliable, because if you delete or archive some page, the related files are also deleted/archived and they are no longer available on the site.

Improvements in Multi-lingual Content Management
The new version comes with several improvements in management of multi-lingual content:

* The workflow schema can be chosen based on the content language. So there can be a different workflow schema for U.S. and French office.
* The administrators can grant users with permissions for particular language version of the site.
* The content editors and translators can easily see an overview of content that is not translated or its translation is older than the default language version.

Improved Performance
Kentico CMS 4.1 comes with several performance improvements. The full-page caching engine now provides double performance in comparison to version 4.0.

Download and Upgrade

* Download Kentico CMS 4.1: http://www.kentico.com/Download.aspx
* If you already use Kentico CMS, you can find the upgrade procedure here: http://www.kentico.com/Download/Upgrades.aspx
* You can find the complete version history here: http://www.kentico.com/Download/Version_History.aspx


The new version also fixes all reported bugs and contains all hot-fixes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.15. If you already applied some hotfix on your 4.0 installation, you can still use the standard upgrade procedure without problems.