Umbraco 4 Released
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We're pleased to say that the guys over at the Umbraco Core Team have released the first production edition of Version 4, and by golly it's a belter. There are many great enhancements in this release which appeal to designers, developers and administrators. But two big changes affect freeumbracotemplates.co.uk, Master Pages and Runway.
Niels and the team have undertaken open heart surgery on the templating engine in version 4. Umbraco now uses ASP.Net Master Pages, rather than the template engine that was found in Umbraco 2 and 3. This has necesitated changes to our existing templates to be compatible.
The second major v4 feature is the new Runway Package. Runway is a real barebones website package, which makes it easy to develop a best-practice Umbraco site. There are also several Runway Packages which can be installed to extend the base Runway package. We've made sure our templates work with the Runway Standard Top Navigation package, but expect to see us incorporate templates for some of the other Runway Packages.
We're not quite there with the version 4 compatible templates, but rest assured we'll post them here as soon as they're built, tested and ready.