The Apereo Open Academic Environment (OAE) project team is pleased to announce
the first minor release of the OAE Phoenix release; OAE Phoenix 1.1.
OAE Phoenix 1.1 brings a number of new features, like LDAP authentication and
new UI translations, a number of end-user improvements and improvements to
OAE's ease of deployment and development. However, OAE Phoenix 1.1 is mostly a
technical release, with lots of work going on in the background around
performance testing and automated UI testing.
The first OAE production environment has also been set up and launched, and
currently supports 3 institutions on a single instance. All tenants have been
skinned, and most of the configuration has taken place, with 2 tenants using
Shibboleth authentication and 1 tenant using CAS authentication:
Georgia Tech: https://oae.gatech.edu
Marist College: https://marist.oaeproject.org
University of Cambridge: https://collab.lib.cam.ac.uk
This production environment has been updated to run the OAE Phoenix 1.1 release.
Try it out
The source code has been tagged with version number 0.2.1 and can be downloaded
from the following repositories:
Back-end: https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/tree/0.2.1
Front-end: https://github.com/oaeproject/3akai-ux/tree/0.2.1
Documentation on how to install the system can be found at
https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/blob/0.2.1/README.md.
The repository containing all deployment scripts can be found at
https://github.com/oaeproject/puppet-hilary.
Changelog
LDAP authentication
It is now possible to authenticate against an LDAP server and pull the user's
pull basic profile information from LDAP. All of this can be configured and
mapped on the fly through the Administration UI.
UI translations
A full Polish translation for OAE is now available (thanks to Katarzyna
Napiórkowska)
A full Italian translation for OAE is now available (thanks to Renato
Strazzulla and Toni Devís López)
A full Valencian translation for OAE is now available (thanks to Toni Devís
López)
The French OAE translation is back at 100% completeness (thanks to Frederic
Dooremont)
The German OAE translation is back at 100% completeness (thanks to Yildiray
Ogurol)
OAE now has a more complete Dutch translation (thanks to Mark Breuker)
Discussion email notifications
Email notifications are now being sent for important discussion activities,
like someone sharing a discussion with you, someone posting in a discussion you
manage or you participated in, etc.
Activity for restored revisions
Restoring a content or document revision now generates an activity in the
activity feed.
Automated testing improvements
The following QUnit tests have been added to the User Interface, although more
work will be going into these during the next release:
Test that checks for code and styling issues in the JavaScript (using JSHint)
Test that checks for any translation keys in the various bundles that are no
longer being used
Test that checks for any translation keys in the HTML and JavaScript that have
not been translated
Test that checks for translation keys that have been duplicated inside a bundle
or across widget bundles
Test that checks for hard-coded English strings that have not been
internationalized
Test that checks that all CSS is in line with the project's style guide
Test that checks that all JavaScript is in line with the project's style guide
Test that checks for WCAG 2.0 Compliance - 1.1.1 Non-text Content / Text
Alternatives issues
Test that checks the completeness of each available translation (limited to
core bundles only)
Important work has gone into building out a set of automated functional UI
tests. This is currently still in development and expected to be included in
the next release.
The project's performance tests have also been significantly updated to reflect
the latest state of the UI. This work is available
athttps://github.com/oaeproject/node-oae-tsung.
Ease of development
A number of issues that showed up when deploying and developing OAE on Windows
have been addressed, making it more straightforward to get the system up and
running on Windows.
Multiple improvements have also been made to the project's installation guide.
Performance improvements
The revisions feed for collaborative documents has been made more scalable,
with the revision content being available on the individual revisions now
instead of the global revision overview feed.
Production improvements
Improvements have been made to the re-index all operation, including the
ability to re-index all discussions in the system.
Improvements have also been made to the re-generate previews operation,
including supporting the re-generation of previews for individual content items.
It is now also possible for global and tenant admins to see the group members
of all groups
Get in touch
The project website can be found at http://www.oaeproject.org. The project blog
will be updated with the latest project news from time to time, and can be
found at http://www.oaeproject.org/blog.
The mailing list used for Apereo OAE is [email protected]. You
can subscribe to the mailing list at
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev.
Bugs and other issues can be reported in our issue tracker at
https://github.com/oaeproject/3akai-ux/issues.
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