Take the community feedback survey now.

Allan Thraen
Dec 20, 2010
  6740
(3 votes)

Early Christmas present: Announcing public availability of EPiServer CMS 6 R2 Beta

I remember that very special feeling I had as a kid on the longest day of the year….The day of Christmas eve (in Denmark we give presents on the 24th). All day I’d watch all these exciting presents lying under the tree – just waiting for me to unwrap them. And even on “slow” years I knew by experience that at least 50% of the presents for me where good (= toys) and not boring (= clothes or other silliness). It was practically torture all through December waiting for the presents – and even more so on Christmas eve. Cause no presents were opened until dinner had been served and eaten, dishes done, Christmas carols sung and so on. Finally I’d get to open the presents one-by-one. But even if I got one of the toys I wished for my joy didn’t last too long – cause all too soon it was time for bed. Naturally, over the last few years it’s gotten better. I’m more patient now, and I (unfortunately) don’t get as many toys any more. However I know that Christmas is still torture on many kids (and software developers)…

But now you can rejoice because we are giving you an early Christmas present that will hopefully help you pass the time until it’s time for the other presents. As some of you might have noticed, last week we put a beta release of EPiServer CMS 6 Release 2 out for download for EMVPs – and so far we’ve already seen a couple of blog posts and twitter reactions on this. Now the time has come to make it available to everyone registered at EPiServer World – so go ahead – Download it, unwrap your present, and do like me – spend Christmas eve having fun with visitor groups instead of wondering what Santa will bring you.

Read what it’s all about.

Download it.

Report bugs, suggestions and feedback.

From all of us to all of you: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Dec 20, 2010

Comments

Please login to comment.
Latest blogs
Optimizely CMS platform bug in ErrorsController (EPiServer.CMS.Core 12.22.9 fix)

While checking  Application Insights earlier this year, I stumbled upon a strange exception in my Optimizely site. At first, I thought it might be ...

David Drouin-Prince | Nov 9, 2025 |

Avoid Using OnStatusChanged in Optimizely CMS – It Can Impact Database Performance

Beware of Overusing OnStatusChanged in Optimizely CMS Scheduled Jobs Optimizely CMS allows you to create scheduled jobs — a powerful feature often...

David Drouin-Prince | Nov 9, 2025 |

Optimizely CMS - Learning by Doing: EP06 - Create Header, Footer, Menu & Component/View for Blocks

  Episode 6  is Live!! The latest installment of my  Learning by Doing: Build Series  on  Optimizely CMS 12  is now available on YouTube! This vide...

Ratish | Nov 4, 2025 |

Going Headless: 3 Ways to Store Custom Data in Optimizely Graph

Welcome to another installment of my  Going Headless  series. Previously, we covered: Going Headless: Making the Right Architectural Choices Going...

Michał Mitas | Nov 3, 2025

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP - What's New in Optimizely CMS: A Comprehensive Recap of 2025 Updates

Hello and welcome to another instalment of a day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP. On the back of the presentation I gave in the October 2025 happ...

Graham Carr | Nov 3, 2025

Optimizely CMS Mixed Auth - Okta + ASP.NET Identity

Configuring mixed authentication and authorization in Optimizely CMS using Okta and ASP.NET Identity.

Damian Smutek | Oct 27, 2025 |