uPortal developers,
It's finally done! uPortal 4.1.0 is now available. It is tagged in source control, there's a release page up on apereo.org , and there's binaries available for download from a GitHub release page. The release is in process slurping into Maven Central. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.1.0 https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/releases/tag/uportal-4.1.0 http://www.apereo.org/uportal/download/uportal-4-1-0 Master is now un-frozen and free for development towards uPortal 4.2: https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/ and there's a new maintenance branch for patches for 4.1 towards 4.1.1: https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/tree/rel-4-1-patches 4.1.0 is first and foremost a tremendous step forward. uPortal now has a release defaulting to the Respondr responsive design theme, and pursuing responsive design together is really important to continuing to meet adopter expectations for compelling web portal experiences across devices. Also, thanks are especially due to James Wennmacher for untangling the Maven dependency resolution issues into the final days of the release. Those fixes made it into 4.1.0 and should make this release a lot more feasible to adopt and support in green field environments. More generally, these developers contributed commits to this release: Ludovic Auxepaules Nicholas Blair Vincent Bonamy Jennifer Bourey Raymond Bourges Bill Brown Shawn Connolly Christian Cousquer Eric Dalquist Michael Gillian Arvids Grabovskis Aaron Grant Julien Gribonvald Peter Hart Josh Helmer Tim Levett Jacob Lichner Dan McCallum Misagh Moayyed Jodie Muramoto Ross Nicoll Chris Paraiso Andrew Petro Matt Polizzotti Jeff Sittler Paul Spaude Steve Swinsburg Gary Thompson Tim Vertein Chris Waymire James Wennmacher Chris White Drew Wills Finally, a special thanks to Ahad Zaman for providing downright intensive testing of master into the final days of the release. So, well done! uPortal 4.1.0 is also shipping with some known bugs and issues. There's a macro in the release page that conveniently lists those in priority order. It would be a lovely thing to burn down that list through some early patch releases. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.1.0 I'd like to tentatively set the expectation that there will be a 4.1.1 patch release around August 15th, that is, a month out. It certainly doesn't have to be me cutting that release at that time, but I think that's the right timeline to be thinking about. Kind regards, Andrew ________________________________ From: Andrew Petro Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: release notes for 4.1.0 release Still tying off loose ends for the actual tag-and-release. Release notes, which will be placed in the "Release" page in GitHub and linked from the wiki, are drafted here: https://gist.github.com/apetro/c35b8891075af97a0b2b ________________________________ From: Andrew Petro Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: FREEZE master for 4.1.0 release Status update on this: Short version: Updated ETA for uPortal 4.1.0 is Monday July 14th. You can most immediately help by grabbing this changeset, testing it, and reassuring all that it ought to be merged already thanks-very-much. : https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/pull/378 : :) Long version: The good news is JIRA is now groomed to provide clearer reporting when you ask it questions about the uPortal 4.1.0 release (and the staged 4.1.0 release notes page now embeds a couple of those queries) and human-readable narrative release notes are coming together. uPortal 4.1.0 is a *huge* release in terms of the accumulated goodness since 4.0.0 (much of which has been doled out bit by bit in 4.0.x releases as well). There's a lot to be excited about in the 4.1 release and the tooling is coming together to communicate that substance. The other mostly good news is that I've been in a lot of training and conference this week about presenting skills, conveying presence, and modern UX design and development. I suggest that's great news in that all of those skills are good for the uPortal project. :) However, it does get in the way of heads down release engineering, and there's a limit to how much bandwidth abuse I'm willing to inflict on my fellow conference attendees, so remaining release tasks will click together bit by bit over the next few days. Again, the `master` freeze for 4.1.0 release engineering in no way blocks grabbing the `master` code to work with it and crafting branches and even pull requests for the fixes and improvements that will come into uPortal post 4.1.0. :) Kind regards, Andrew ________________________________ [...snip...] ________________________________ From: Andrew Petro Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 12:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FREEZE master for 4.1.0 release uPortal developers, I request that Jasig/uPortal/master be considered frozen to changes pending the release of uPortal 4.1.0 GA (or a RC, depending on the outcome of the now pending uPortal 4.1.0 release vote). Of course, part of the beauty of distributed source control is that `master` freeze for release in no way impairs collaboration upon and sharing of code. By all means, fix your favorite bug this weekend. Fixing bugs is patriotic. To the extent that there are changes that need to make it into the 4.1.0 GA release (or that RC), please be sure I'm aware. Kind regards, Andrew -- 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
