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Dot Net Nuke Corp. released it’s latest version of their framework. Version 5.4.4 is a maintenance release resolve’s two significant breaking changes that appeared in 5.4.3. Those fixes are:

• Fixed issue with ExecuteSql method overloads to be able to handle ExecuteSQL(string, nothing) again.
• Fixed issue with Indirect Reference to DotNetNuke Library errors.

The release of 5.5 Alpha was a surprise to me. I have seen it progress in Gemini, I was just blissfully unaware of it progress. The focus of 5.5 is localization. I know, your going to say that DNN has localization. Well, in part that’s true. This is not the static strings localization, nope, we’re talking content localization.

You can read that DNN Blog on the topic here.

There is a blog entry here that “rants” about how beta software is treated and perceived by end-users. What wasn’t mentioned was the upgrade cycle.

Never, never assume that a beta piece of software is going to be upgradable. And when I say upgradable, I mean the next beta build release. This would especially hold true  with an RTM. Almost never would you want tot upgrade a beta to a production code, unless the manufacturer has explicitly said this is acceptable.