im trying to build a website , i want to use v14 , it would be helpful if there was any for of cms setup done in vv14, thanks

14 is still in beta which is probably why packages not yet available 🙂

I don't believe StarterKit is available for 14 yet. I think someone else asked a couple of weeks ago. If you want to build a live/production website, I would use 13 for now (it's end of life isn't until Dec 2026) https://umbraco.com/products/knowledge-center/long-term-support-and-end-of-life/

I wonder how far you'd get by installing v14 + a starter kit, doing a uSync export and then importing that with uSync beta for v14

No there is a working uSync work for v14 🙂 - however there are subtle diffrences in how Umbraco stores some data (mainly datatype configs). that might cause issues, We haven't done full migration testing/code yet, so in bringing in v13 stuff millage may vary.

You could also install v13 + starter kit, then upgrade to v14. I'm not sure if the backoffice is feature complete yet though. The first beta was without block lists eg.

I just had a quick go at that. 14 requires .net 8 so I upgraded the v 13 site to .net 8. It then complained it needed System.Data.SqlClient updated to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient so I isntalled it. Now no errors but is stuck booting.

v13 is .net 8 ?

I tried to update 13 to 14 and it failed with an error saying that 14 requires net 8

I’m not certain but I believe I ran into this and the connection string was referencing the bad/older one and I just needed to reference the newer one… I’m sorry if my comment sends you in a wild goose chase.

I don't know if you have to use .Net 8 but v13 certainly supports it: https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-cms/umbraco-13/

13 requires net8 too: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Umbraco.Cms#dependencies-body-tab

I just checked one of our v13 sites and even though I have:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
    <PropertyGroup>    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>

I'm getting this error:

NETSDK1 The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET 8.0. Either target .NET 5.0 or lower, or use a version of the .NET SDK that supports .NET 8.0.

I have .Net 8 installed globally

could be you only have the runtime installed, and not the sdk? You can get SDKs here https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/visual-studio-sdks

My bad I opened it in an older VS, .Net 8 is working fine in v13