A long-awaited DotNetNuke 4.9 released last week has made the community excited. I personally upgraded my web site right at the minute DotNetNuke announced on their homepage the new version is available.

A few notable changes in 4.9 have been fairly documented this time after seeing the community’s frustration of the lack of such friendly documentation/release process when new versions introduced. Thanks to Joe Brinkman’s great documentation efforts, we all now can get the major highlights of updates.

As you can see beside the new default skin, a skin object called “TEXT” also introduced to allow text localization within skins. When Shaun Walker first blogged about it, I was excited to see the improved skinning process and a few enhancements, but let’s take a closer look to see what are the benefits this new skin object give us.