Just in time for Christmas a new version of DotNetNuke has been released. On it's 4 year anniversary of the first release, DotNetNuke released version 4.4. "On December 24th, 2002, the code which was to become the DotNetNuke web application framework was first released to the community.  On the fourth anniversary of this date, DotNetNuke version 4.4.0 - a release with significant performance enhancements - has now been made available for download"If you've never used DotNetNuke before, do yourself a favor and try it out, there are no licensing fees to download it, use it, or even modify it. It's open source, free, and a great way to easily start building a website via an intuitive web based UI. Version 4.4 marks the first ASP.NET 2.0 only release, prior to this release DNN was maintaining two sets of code, one for .Net 1.1 and one for .Net 2.0. 4.4 marks significant improvements in performance over previous versions as this version was heavily tested and tweaked in a full scale performance lab.Here's an edited list of changes from the change log available at http://support.dotnetnuke.com/project/ChangeLog.aspx?PROJID=2Component Issue Type SummaryAdmin / Host Functions Bug Page Head tags are not properly processedAdmin / Host Functions Bug Action Menu with Module Specific Permissions is not displayedAdmin / Host Functions Bug Cannot use icon from module directory in action buttonsAdmin / Host Functions Bug ModuleTitle in multi definition modulesAdmin / Host Functions Enhancement Improve Delete Portal FunctionalityAdmin / Host Functions Enhancement Convert Site Wizard to use .NET Framework classesAdmin / Host Functions New Feature Add Page QuotasAdmin / Host Functions New Feature Add User QuotaAdmin / Host Functions New Feature Improve Portal ManagementAdmin / Host Functions New Feature Add a new Delete Expired Portals actionLocalization / ML Bug Pop-up calendar localized date format bugLocalization / ML Bug Popup calendarLocalization / ML Bug Localized images break when using the "ShowMissingKeys" app setting.Localization / ML Bug Collation issue with Event LogLocalization / ML New Feature Force a specific language for first visitorsPerformance Bug Performance: ClientAPICaps.config cachingPerformance Bug Performance: XmlSerializerPerformance Bug Performance : TabCachePerformance Bug Performance ; Menu providersPerformance Bug Performance: XPathDocument vs XmlDocumentPerformance Bug Performance: Reduce Database CallsPerformance Bug Performance: CBO and ReflectionPerformance Enhancement Imporve Startup performancePerformance Enhancement Implement HTTP compressionSecurity Bug Exception when deleting role groups Posted from...