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