Release notes
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May 25, 2015
Released Sitecore Azure 8.0 rev. 150522.
Tested with Sitecore 8.0 rev. 150427.
Compatibility
Sitecore Azure 8.0 requires Azure SDK 2.5.1 and Sitecore® Experience Platform™ 8.0.
Change log:
New features:
- Additional support for deploying Sitecore 8.0
- Additional support for using the Azure 2.5.1 SDK
- Additional support for the new publishing settings schema
Improvements:
- There is now a drop-down menu so you can select the SQL Server Tier in the Content Editor
- You can now select VM size from the drop-down menu in New Deployment dialog in the Azure module UI
- The UI has been changed to make it better match the style of Sitecore Experience Platform 8.0
Resolved issues:
- AzureInRoleCacheSessionStateProvider now supports both Private and Shared session states. (435578)
- An error occurred when attempting to request the Environment File. This has been fixed. (434974)
- Deploying to Local Emulator failed to initiate in Sitecore Azure 7.5. This has been fixed in Sitecore Azure 8.0. (426308)
Known issues
- Upgrade issue with Sitecore 8.0 Update-3
Sitecore Azure 8.0 upgrade installation fails with Sitecore 8.0 Update 3, below is the workaround for upgrading
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In Web.config file, configuration/configSections node, add following line:
<section name="sitecorediff" type="Sitecore.Update.Configuration.ConfigReader, Sitecore.Update"/> -
After configuration/configSections node, add following line:
<sitecorediff>``<sitecorediff/> -
Storage limitations
Windows Azure Cloud Services has some limitations on the app drive. For a Sitecore deployment, this means the App drive free space is limited to static files of no more than:
- 360MB on Content Delivery deployments
- 150MB on Content Editing deployments
This is more than enough in most single sites if larger media files are not deployed as physical files.