Developer Meeting: September 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET

Status Updates

5.2.1 released on August 22, 2024

• 41 Pull Requests (2540 Total)
• 90 Commits (5705 Total)
• 5 Contributors (57 Total)
• 2 New Contributors

Contributors: @sbwalker, @leigh-pointer, @thabaum, @ijaz-saeed, @pollux

5.2.1 Release Highlights

A variety of performance improvements were implemented in the 5.2.1 release, including caching of user objects as well as query optimization for searching using the default search provider. A user experience enhancement was added to the File Manager which allows administrators to extract ZIP packages into a folder, and the ActionDialog was improved to support more scenarios in static rendering.

Blog Module

The official 5.2.0 version of the Blog module was released on Nuget. This was a major release with many enhancements including the ability to maintain all prior versions of blog posts, the ability to manage workflow states of Draft and Published, support for a primary banner image for each blog post, manage categories and tags, manage meta tags for SEO, allow content to be indexed by the new Oqtane search engine, and the ability to add Blog Widgets to any page to display alternate views of blog posts such as most recent, most popular, related blogs, etc...

Site Outage

A site outage occurred at the beginning of September for https://www.oqtane.org. The outage was not related to the Oqtane framework, it was related to Microsoft Azure configuration issues which were introduced by Microft Azure Support during the resolution of a support ticket. Basically a spending limit was added to the subscription which resulted in all services getting an "Admin disabled" status that required escalation to determine how to remove spending limit and restore services.

Oqtane Marketplace

The Markertplace will be receiving some enhancements this month to provide support for dedicated pages for each product. This will provide additional exposure opportunities for vendors to describe their products and will improve SEO characteristics. Products will also be searchable through the new Search provider and will be published with the SiteMap.

Black Belt Blazor

On September 5, 2024 from 12:00-1:00 ET we will be hosting a webinar titled "Black Belt Blazor" In this session we will provide a deep dive into some of the more challenging aspects of Blazor including state management, JavaScript integration, pre-rendering and "double loading", dealing with render mode boundaries, static rendering interactivity, optimizing component ViewState, etc... This presentation will be primarily focused on Blazor but is inspired by lessons learned while developing Oqtane.

TrailBlazor Conference

On October 3, 2024 we will be partnering with C# Corner to host a free virtual conference titled "TrailBlazor". The conference will be focused on Blazor, .NET MAUI (Blazor Hybrid), and Oqtane. The conference will include many notable speakers, including members of the Blazor & .NET MAUI product teams from Microsoft as well as many other respected leaders within the .NET community. More information is available at https://trailblazor.net.

Roadmap

The next monthly maintenance release of Oqtane will be version 5.2.2 and it is expected to be released during the month of September.

The next Oqtane Developer Meeting will be on October 2, 2024.