[uportal-dev] Announcing uPortal 3.0.1 GA

[Eric Dalquist]

JA-SIG is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.1. uPortal 3.0.1 GA is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the 3.0.0 GA release.

Full release notes <http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0.1> are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview <http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0>.

   * ProxyServlet security vulnerability
     <http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0.1+security+fix>
   * Various import/export script fixes including; export user-prefs
     from Oracle, import entity-types with certain group services.
   * Restored CacheLdapSecurityContext (was missing in 3.0.0)
   * Local LDAP authentication now works
   * https URLs now work for portlets
   * Resolved issue with password manager channel failing for non-local
     users
   * Resolved UI issues when adding a channel that fails to render
   * Removed .zip packaging of uPortal distributions due to issues in
     the Windows Extractor tool
   * JSR-168 specification CSS classes
   * dbloader fails-fast if no mapping is found in dbloader.xml
   * Allow uP_fname & uP_args for guests
   * Allow more options for portlet preference loading for guests
   * VersionManager now populates "Powered By" string in theme
   * Added mediating factory bean to try multiple lazy-init beans by
     name and use the first one that instantiates without exception
   * Created a hidden category for channels to allow easier management
   * Updated patch revisions of all portal dependencies

This release includes the following new features and fixes along with over 50 total resolved Jira issues: Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All Release <http://www.uportal.org/download.html> page. JavaDocs and developer-centric materials are available on the project's Maven site <http://developer.ja-sig.org/projects/uportal/3.0.1/>

This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker <http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10020&issuetype=1&Next%3E%3E=Next%3E%3E>

uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
-Eric Dalquist

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.

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