XMod Pro 5.0 Beta 8 is available

Beta 8 is up in the client downloads area at https://dnndev.com/clients/downloads. Packages for DNN 9.2 and DNN 10 are both included. Install it over any earlier 5.0 beta. When installing, be sure to choose the "Repair Install" option. Your forms, views, feeds, and data stay exactly as they are. **Assembly version:** 5.0.0.8 **Beta expires:** November 22, 2026 ## What changed This one is mostly about the editors, plus the upgrade experience and one runtime fix. Several of these came directly from reports from beta tests, so thank you for the detail you have been sending. **Upgrades no longer serve stale files.** The admin UI's scripts and styles are now versioned by content, so a browser can never hold onto an old copy after an upgrade. If the Control Panel looks off the first time you open it after installing Beta 8, do one hard refresh (Ctrl+F5). That is the last time you should ever need to. **Editor fixes** - Document-level `<register>` tags are no longer dropped when a custom form opens in the editor. - A custom form whose `<AddForm>` or `<EditForm>` tag spans multiple lines opens with its full content instead of as an empty new form. - Format Code now re-indents instead of re-flowing, so attribute values containing markup or SQL are left alone. - SQL containing `<>`, `<=`, or `>=` no longer trips a false "empty command text" lint error. - Column names are validated against the database before you save. A reference to a column that does not exist is flagged in the editor rather than failing at runtime. Data sources using a `[[ConnectionString:Name]]` token are checked against that database, not DNN's. - Autocomplete now covers `[-- --]` comments and the `#region` and `#settings` directives. - Automatic tag closing is off. Typing `>` no longer inserts a closing tag for you. - Font ligatures are off by default. The editor font was merging `>=`, `!=`, and `[--` into single glyphs, which looked like corrupted text. There is a toggle in Global Settings if you want them back. **Control Panel** - The Feeds Explorer's "Most Used" sort and "In Use" filter never reflected real usage and are gone. The feed list loads faster as a result. - The View and Form selectors in module settings open scrolled to the current selection. **Runtime** - XMod Pro modules on a custom 404 page no longer error. DNN transfers to the 404 page before session state exists, and XMod Pro now handles that. If your 404 page still errors after upgrading, check Host Settings > Performance > Page State Persistence and set it to Page. The Memory option fails inside DNN itself on 404 pages, independent of XMod Pro. ## What to look at If you have a few minutes, the areas most worth exercising are the custom form editor on your existing forms, Format Code on anything with SQL in attributes, and an upgrade from Beta 7 on a site where you have not cleared the browser cache. Report anything odd here with your DNN version and the steps to reproduce it.