Eric, I just downloaded the quickstart and gave her a whirl. Amazing! Congratulations to you and everyone who put in time on this fantastic release. uP3 is a polished, modern, portal framework by and for higher ed we can all be proud of. Well done.
A dream come true! :) Bill On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > JA-SIG is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.0. > uPortal 3.0.0 GA is the culmination of a significant effort by many people > in the uPortal community to take a revolutionary step with the uPortal code > base. > > Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview. > The release notes page includes links to the milestone and two release > candidates that preceded this GA release. > > This release includes the following new features and fixes: > > A standard project structure and build management system using Maven 2 with > Ant utility scripts. > Use of the Pluto 1.1 portlet container which provides future-proofing for > eventual JSR-286 support. > A single Spring application context with much of the portal application > configuration residing in this context. > Database import and export utilities using Cernunnos scripts. Thanks to > Andrew Wills from Unicon for this work. > A new theme and skin along with a more understandable directory structure > for layout and skin related files. The new skin is also using jQuery to > provide drag and drop features which are enabled by default. Thanks to Gary > Thompson from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. > Layout cache friendly dynamic title support for channels and portlets. > Dynamic titles for channels and portlets work on every render now. Thanks to > Nick Bolton from Unicon for this work. > Quickstart generation scripts. Quickstart generation is now as simple as > running an Ant task. > Consistent cache scheme and configuration based on Spring-Modules Caching > API. Most existing dynamic caches have been converted to use the new API and > it is currently backed by EHCache though other caching frameworks can easily > be used. > CAS 3.2 is bundled with uPortal and is used as the default authentication > mechanism. Thanks to Scott Battaglia from Rutgers, Andrew Petro from Unicon > and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. > CAS Proxy tickets are available to JSR-168 portlets as a user attribute. > Thanks to Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. > New default content that provides a better first-impression and > demonstration of the uPortal framework. > Over 150 bugs, improvements, new features, and tasks resolved since 2.6 > > Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All Release > page. JavaDocs and developer-centric materials are available on the > project's Maven site > > This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file > them in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker > > I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly > and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and > design insight has been invaluable. > > A more press-release centric announcement will follow tomorrow on the > uportal-user and other lists along with the uPortal web-site and other > locations. > > uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer, > -Eric Dalquist -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the event. Join the Conference networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
