Kentico CMS 4.1 for ASP.Net was recently released. Kentico, the software vendor, announced that this version of the CMS contains a new enterprise-class search engine and several usability improvements.
The new search engine is based on the Lucene.NET search engine which is already known to provide excellent performance and search results. The new Smart Engine can be used side-by-side with existing SQL-based search engine. The main features of Kentico's search engine includes:
- displaying search results based on the relevancy (search result ranking)
- displaying document preview in the search results
- customizable search filters and custom search queries
- customizable search scope - you can specify site section, document types and fields that should be searched
The additional usability improvements found in Kentico CMS 4.1 include:
- New Dialogs for Inserting Images
- New Concept of Document Attachments
- Improvements in Multi-lingual Content Management
- Improved Performance
Kentico CMS 4.1 can be downloaded from the vendor's official download page. You can also find additional information about this CMS at Kentico.com.