Stupendous work! Congratulations everyone who helped make this
happen.
Can we get a news item on the ja-sig and uPortal sites ASAP? Also
would be good to put the link to the download page
(http://www.uportal.org/download.html) prominently in the wiki.
Eric or Jonathan, could you write a blog entry at the conference blog
(http://jasig2008.blogspot.com/) to encourage folks to come learn all
about it in St Paul?
Thank you Eric, Jen, Gary, Nick, Andrew(s) and dozens more for making
uPortal a top shelf product.
Gee - I sound like the marketing department. Yikes, better write some
code.
Susan
Eric Dalquist 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
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