Sitefinity 13.1 further streamlines marketing and development tasks, scales common business and technical challenges, and accelerates teams’ productivity by building on top of Sitefinity 13.0’s features.

Sitefinity CLI streamlines the Sitefinity CMS upgrade process. Automate handling broken references, setting the target framework to the relevant framework version, fixing binding redirects, and upgrading all Sitefinity projects in the solution.

Unified single- and multi-site management

Sitefinity 13.1 unifies single-site and multi-site modes and allows you to seamlessly manage transitions from single-site to multi-site without changes in the end user experience. The number of sites you can create is determined only by your license. The site configurations are directly accessible via the top-left site selector and the Site Properties view. Additionally, you can configure modules per site from the same screen.

Multilingual management changes

Sitefinity CMS 13.1 improves the management of multilingual sites in a number of areas, including increased performance, expanded UI, and enhanced extensibility. We have also eliminated problematic scenarios when switching between single language and multilingual modes, such as:

• Projects in multi-site mode with shared providers and different default languages
• Adding a second language to the system then removing it (switching back to monolingual), then adding it back again (switching again to multilingual)
• Projects that initially worked in monolingual mode, have content created, and later switch to multilingual mode

Single language websites are immediately updated to multilingual when you add languages through basic settings.

Developers will enjoy simplified APIs and improved extensibility when working with multi-lingual and multi-culture content. For upgrading to 13.1, most common scenarios are not expected to require any code updates. For cases when they do, the impacted APIs are clearly marked as Obsolete with guidance about using the new APIs.

New Documents management interface

We redesigned the Documents module, and it now uses the new interface. The module retains most of its previous functionality and also includes a number of new features and improvements such as:

• Ability to search within all folders and libraries
• Improved side navigation menu with quick navigation that allows easy access to folders and files
• Improved reordering experience with a simple drag and drop
• Improved filtering directly from the side menu with an overview of filter results and the ability to add more filter criteria

Feature parity for the Images module

In 13,1, we have completed work on the feature parity for the new Images module, including:

• Ability to replace an image or choose a different file for a particular translation
• Ability to bulk edit image properties, such as alternative text or description
• Ability to bulk assign tags and categories

In the process, we fixed a number of bugs and applied many small UI updates.

Personalization by HubSpot contact property and HubSpot Score

You can now create user segments in Sitefinity CMS that are based on contact properties and lead score from HubSpot.

In addition, HubSpot Popup forms are now supported, provided you have configured the Sitefinity CMS Web Security module to allow HubSpot sources.

Keyboard shortcuts support in the New UI

We have introduced a number of keyboard shortcuts in Content modules and Pages that will improve the user experience of content editors, as well as their efficiency and productivity. The keyboard shortcuts are available only in the new UI.

Sitefinity CLI becomes the recommended upgrade tool

The updated Sitefinity CLI automatically upgrades your Sitefinity project and installs the NuGet packages. Upgrading through the CLI has the following advantages:

• The target framework of the upgraded project is automatically set to the relevant Sitefinity CMS framework version
• Automatic handling of broken or missing references
• Automatic fixes for binding redirects
• All Sitefinity projects in the solution are automatically upgraded without the need to manually go through them
• You can include it as a step in a Continuous integration pipeline.

.NET Core Renderer [CTP]

Continuing the improvement of the .NET Core application, with this release we added more widgets and improved the functionality of the new page editor:

• Introduction of the Image widget
• Introduction of the Call to action (CTA) widget
• Ability to choose an image or video for background
• Copy/paste widget settings in the new editor
• Duplicate of widget in the new editor
• Column and widget labels in the new widget designer
• Implementation of caching for the page API

Page layout service

Using the Page layout service API, you can manage the communication between Single Page Applications (SPAs) and your Sitefinity CMS backend. In this scenario, Sitefinity CMS no longer handles the frontend rendering of your pages and content. Instead, you write a dedicated frontend application that accesses the content and the layout from the backend. The Page layout service API handles the communication between such apps and the Sitefinity CMS backend using standard OData REST API. With Sitefinity 13.1, this service graduated out of beta status to a fully supported feature.