The last 7 years has been a very exciting time for the DotNetNuke team.  This period has been marked by constant change.  Sometimes the changes were positive and helped move the project forward, and other times the changes did not achieve the desired results and thus became a learning opportunity.  During this period we have had almost 80 core team members and project leads, had 5 major releases, hosted the project on 3 different open source websites, had 3 different project forums, and used 3 different source code management systems (hat tip to the reader who can name the websites and SCMs) .  We have also launched a company, created a commercial version of the project, and hosted conferences in North America and Europe.  All in all, it has been a pretty busy time, marked by lots of changes.  There have been 3 constants throughout the life of the project – Shaun Walker has always been the leader of the project, DotNetNuke has always been offered under a BSD open source license (we’ll conveniently ignore Shaun’s brief flirtation with a different license in 2003), and we have always operated a closed repository.  Today I am happy to announce that one of those is changing.

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I am happy to announce that DotNetNuke 5.2.0 has been released.  This release comes after an extensive beta testing period and a corresponding effort by our internal testing team.  As one of our quarterly feature releases, 5.2.0 includes a number of new capabilities.  We have improved some of the module creation and packaging tools, improved our module caching support and added Page Output caching for our Professional customers.  These are just a few of the many changes and fixes in this release as indicated below. As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the ChangeLog.

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Last year at OpenForce, DotNetNuke Corporation was on the verge of closing our first round of funding.  2006, 07 and 08 were challenging years as we struggled to find a business model that would support our company of 6 and allow us to grow.  Shaun, Scott, Nik and I formed DotNetNuke Corp. with the goal of building a company that would allow us to better manage the project and improve DotNetNuke with access to increased resources.  With the investment we received in 2008 we have been able to grow the company to nearly 30 employees and contractors.  As we have brought in additional employees, it has allowed us to further focus our efforts rather than running around trying to do everything ourselves.

One of our first people we hired after OpenForce last year was Cathal Connolly from the core team.  Cathal joined Charles Nurse who already worked for DotNetNuke Corp and brought his deep understanding of DotNetNuke security to the company.  At the same time we began to build out our engineering office in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada – not far from Vancouver.  We quickly hired Sarah Darkis and John Lucarino who both had prior experience working with Shaun and who also had extensive experience working with DotNetNuke and ASP.Net.  This was our engineering team for the better part of the first 9 months in 2009.
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