Habitat 1.8.1 (Sitecore 9.2)

[#476] Better handling of System.Buffers reference issue.

More info:
https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/20379/sitecore-9-2-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-system-buffers-or-one-of-its-dep

Habitat 1.8 (Sitecore 9.2)

• [#474] Updated for Sitecore 9.2 installation and build
• [#467] Updated gulp script to use msbuild instead of gulp-msbuild to resolve compatibility issues with Visual Studio 2019
  • Simplified gulp script in the process to only build the full solution, instead of projects individually, which should improve build times
• [#461] Target framework in web.config files now updated to 4.7.1
• Moved nuget references back to sc-packages feed and with it, marketing versions on all packages
• Unicorn upgraded to 4.1.1

Thanks to everyone who contributed directly or indirectly to this release, including:

@robearlam
@jameshirka
@derekcorreia
@kamsar
@af4jm
@cassidydotdk
@hoquem1
@VadzimPapko
@anderslaub

Habitat 1.7 (Sitecore 9.1)

New Features and Updates

• Updated for Sitecore 9.1 (initial) and Sitecore Install Framework 2.0
• Install script uses new XP0-SingleDeveloper SIF configuration
• Install script uses new Prerequisites SIF configuration
• Install script can now optionally skip prerequisites check (-SkipPrerequisites)
• Uninstall script uses new Uninstall-SitecoreConfiguration SIF command
• Target framework updated to 4.7.1
• Package references updated for new 9.1 feed
  • Removed use of NoReference packages
  • Updated version numbers
  • NU1603 added to NoWarn on all projects to avoid nuget restore error with Sitecore.Kernel
• Option to conditionally use local assembly references instead of nuget, including gulp target to enable
  • Facilitates internal Sitecore pre-release builds
• Dependency updates for 9.1
• Minor updates for breaking API changes
• Updated to use new Item.DescendsFrom method
• Updated to use enhanced built-in AllTemplates computed field

Issues Resolved

• Release build now functional (#435)

Known Issues

• [#418] Unicorn sync does not fully rebuild search indexes / deploy SOLR schema. Getting Started directions include instructions to rebuild manually.
• [#420] Facebook login does not trigger login/register goals.
• [#429] Google maps do not display.
• [#394] MediaUrl unit tests are broken in SitecoreExtensions, and are currently disabled.

Habitat 1.6 (Sitecore 9.0 Update-2)

New Features and Updates

• Updated for Sitecore 9.0 Update-2
• XP functionality and code updated for XConnect
• Now includes SIF-based install and uninstall scripts for setting up Habitat Sitecore instance
• Added Helix layers to Layer config
• Now using Sitecore 9 dynamic placeholders
• Added Facebook login using Sitecore 9 Federated Auth support
• Aligned Helix folder ID's with SXA
• Updated all dependencies to latest version, wherever possible
• Switched from packages.config to PackageReference for NuGet references
• Cleaned up assembly references to use NuGet exclusively
• Refactored various services for use of DI to enable unit testing, as needed for 9.0 upgrade
• Fixed issue with theme application on DA language
• Fixed broken links in footer
• Updated Sitecore USA address in footer
• Updated copyright year
• Added additional language regarding nature of and support for Habitat

Known Issues

• [#418] Unicorn sync does not fully rebuild search indexes / deploy SOLR schema. Getting Started directions include instructions to rebuild manually.
• [#420] Facebook login does not trigger login/register goals.
• [#429] Google maps do not display.
• [#394] MediaUrl unit tests are broken in SitecoreExtensions, and are currently disabled.

Habitat 1.5 (Sitecore 8.2 Update-4)

Sitecore 8.2 update 4 support

Habitat 1.4 (Sitecore 8.2 Update-1)

Sitecore 8.2 update 1 support

Change log

• Project.Habitat: Added Japanese language support
• Feature.Demo: Allows fake data to be set on demo pages to fake referrers, geodata and ip addresses
• Feature.Demo: Site now works with MongoDB offline
• Feature.Search: Added type-ahead functionality
• Feature.Metadata: Possible to extend the page metadata from other modules
• Feature.Metadata: Extends the metadata support with custom tags and robots
• Feature.Search: Added facets
• Feature.Search: Added search context to allow the global search box to detech the search results page
• Foundation.Themes: Base theme updated with minor fixes
• Foundation.SitecoreExtensions: Updating ItemExtensions.cs to better handle Linkfields
• Foundation.Testing: Module is no longer deployed
• Foundation.Accounts: Added pipelines for LoggedIn, LoggedOut and Registered for extensibility by other modules
• Foundation.Themes: Added bundler/minifier to build
• Foundation.Multisite: Made it possible to define a placeholder settings root per site
• Foundation.DependencyInjection: Added standard Sitecore dependency injection support
• General: Moved themes sass to Project.Common
• General: Pulled out build tools version to be in config to easier enable VS2017 to work with Habitat.
• General: Added deploy task for gulp
• General: Added Dependency Injection to many modules
• General: Fixed a bunch of CI specific fixes

Habitat 1.3 (Sitecore 8.2 Update-1)

• Now on Sitecore XP version 8.2 Update-1
• Implemented Themes
• Extracted Design Theme into bower package available on http://github.com/sitecore/sitecore.demo.theme
• Refactored Foundation.Theming
• Added Page events to the Demo panel
• Added login teaser to Feature.Accounts module
• Added video component to Feature.Media module
• Refactored Authentication

Habitat 1.2 (Sitecore 8.1 Update-3)

v1.2

• Info panel updates and fixes
• Outcomes added to WFFM
• Icons added for renderings
• Site design fixes
• Content type specific search results
• Fixed height jumbotron
• FAQ feature added
• Map Feature added
• Refactored multisite – sites don’t have to be configured in multiple places
• Sitecore 8.1 update-3

Habitat 1.1.0.378

v1.1 / Theme Update

• New Theme
  • New site style, CSS, layouts, etc.
• Language definition by site
  • the ability to define the supported languages on a per site basis so that different sites can have different languages
• Employee lists
  • a rendering that shows a list of all employees
• Tracking Info Panel engagement plans
  • show when a site visitor is in an engagement plan
• Meta keywords
  • allow keywords to be assigned to content easily
• Handle invalid datasources
  • errors or invalid content is not shown to end users
• Multisite datasource feature
  • added support for query: data source location in the DatasourceConfiguration fields
• Rich Text Editor Configuration
  • Minimal and full configuration available
• Version Information
  • added to habitat package

Habitat 1.0

Initial Preview release

Release Notes

• User Accounts
  • Login
  • Register new user
  • Forgot Password, with email notification
  • User Profile
  • .NET Membership Provider integration
  • xDB Goal and Outcome Tracking
  • xDB User Identification
• Demo tools
  • Mockup page support (Google Search example)
  • xDB Contact and Visit Details Panel
• Corporate identity
  • Editable site logo
  • Legal footer
• Language support
  • Global multi-language support
  • Language switcher
• Media support
  • Media Carousel
  • Image Lightbox
  • Video Lightbox
  • Lightbox Gallery
• HTML/SEO metadata
  • HTML keywords/description
  • HTML meta robots support
  • Browser page and global site title
• HTML/SEO metadata
  • HTML keywords/description
  • HTML meta robots support
  • Browser page and global site title
• Multi-site support
  • Multi site support in all modules
  • Site switcher in global page menu
• Navigation
  • Primary navigation
  • Secondary/Sidebar navigation
  • Breadcrumb
  • Header and footer link menus
  • Site switcher in global page menu
• News
  • News list
  • News article
  • News teaser
  • Latest news teaser
  • Buckets support
  • Global Search Support
• Page Content/General Article support
  • Standard Article page
  • Title, Summary, Body, Image
  • Page Teaser
  • Child List Page
• Person/Employee support
  • Employee details
  • Employee list
  • Quote teaser
• Website search and indexing
  • Simple free text support
  • Global search box
  • Configurable search results
  • Allow for extension through IOC pattern
  • Uses Sitecore Search API
• Social Media Support
  • Twitter Feed integration
  • Links to Social Media pages
  • Open Graph Metadata support
• Teasers/Call-to-action support
  • Jumbotron teaser
  • Accordeon Teaser
  • Multiple variants of content teasers
• Page Asset configuration
  • Configuration of page assets (Javascript/CSS)
  • Global, page or rendering level support
  • Supports head or body placement
• Build, Continuous Integration and deployment
  • Full Support for CI across all branched
  • Automated deployment to QA and production environments
  • Uses Node/Gulp for build scripts
  • Automated setup of local development environment
• Unit and BDD Testing
  • Integrateed xUnit and SpecFlow for automated testing
• Sitecore Serialisation and Versioning
  • Fully modular versioning of content and configuration items
  • Uses Unicorn for item serialisation
• Useful Sitecore extensions
  • Better support for template inheritance
  • MVC helper classes
  • Site-specific and better management for sictionary texts
• Front-end theming
  • Fully standard Bootstrap HTML
  • Added Bootstrap compliant theme
  • Sass pre-compiler support
• Example site
  • Habitat site leveraging and showcasing all features
  • Hosted on http://habitat.sitecore.net