The Apereo Open Academic Environment (OAE) project team is pleased to announce
the fifth major release of the Apereo Open Academic Environment; OAE Desert
Sparrow or OAE 5.
OAE Desert Sparrow is a mostly technical release, upgrading OAE from CQL2 to
CQL3. Next to that, OAE Desert Sparrow also adds full-text search of content
comments and discussion posts.
Changelog
CQL3 Upgrade
Apereo OAE has been upgraded from CQL2 to CQL3. CQL2 has been deprecated in
Cassandra 1.2 and will be removed in the next major Cassandra release. While
CQL2 provides an SQL-like abstraction to Thrift in Cassandra, CQL3 goes a step
further to provide a more natural row-column model. A detailed overview of the
differences between CQL2 and CQL3 can be found on the Datastax website at
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3.
Whilst this upgrade is not a user-facing improvement, it still warrants a new
major release because of the amount of underlying changes involved and the need
to migrate any existing data. However, the migration can happen without
requiring any downtime.
Message searching
When searching for content items, the full text of all comments on those
content items will now be included for searches. Similarly, the full text of
all discussion posts will be considered when searching for discussions. This
includes both global searches and searches within content and discussion
libraries and should make it even more likely that relevant results will be
returned.
Try it out
OAE Desert Sparrow can be experienced on the project's QA server at
http://oae.oae-qa0.oaeproject.org. It is worth noting that this server is
actively used for testing and will be wiped and redeployed every night.
The source code has been tagged with version numbers 5.0.0 and can be
downloaded from the following repositories:
Back-end: https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/tree/5.0.0
Front-end: https://github.com/oaeproject/3akai-ux/tree/5.0.0
Documentation on how to install the system can be found at
https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/blob/5.0.0/README.md.
Instruction on how to upgrade an OAE installation from version 4.4 to version
5.0 can be found at https://github.com/oaeproject/Hilary/wiki/OAE-Upgrade-Guide.
The repository containing all deployment scripts can be found at
https://github.com/oaeproject/puppet-hilary.
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 oae-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org. 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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