The uPortal Developer Community is proud to announce the newest minor version
of uPortal: 4.2.0.
This version of uPortal is a general audience (GA) release. It provides
several new and exciting features that are not in the 4.1.x line, as well as
all the maintenance updates – primarily bug & security fixes – that are
included in the 4.1.x line. This release includes some modest changes to
default configuration settings. (See "Notes on Deploying & Upgrading" below.)
In upgrading to uPortal 4.2 from version 4.1, you are free to continue with the
configurations you have; but you should review these changes and strongly
consider making them locally. These changes offer better alignment with
planned future enhancements.
Highlights
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• The following enhancements or bug fixes are especially noteworthy.
• Hover chrome, which provides access to chrome-based functions (e.g.
Minimize, Maximize, Remove, etc.) for portlets with showChrome=false
• Numerous enhancements and fixes to uPortal's Multi-Tenancy features
• The Portlet Manager UI has been greatly improved & simplified
• A client-side session timeout warning message, with the option to
continue the session, has been added
• A 6-column layout option has been added; works gorgeously with small
portlets like the App Launcher
• The Portlet Marketplace UI has been greatly improved & simplified
• Added MAINTENANCE portlet lifecycle state (accessible from the
Portlet Manager), which displays a user-friendly message when a portlet is
out-of-service
• Added support for the Experience ("Tin Can") API
• Added Transient Layout Node support for unauthenticated (guest)
users; this enhancement means that guest users can access – provided they have
the proper permissions -- portlets that are not on the guest layout
Notes on Deploying & Upgrading
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• Requires Servlet API 3.0 to run. Tomcat 7.0 supports this version.
Choose the most recent Tomcat 7.
• Requires Java 7 ("JDK 1.7"). Java 8 ("JDK 1.8") is not yet supported.
• Data export and import is required when upgrading from uPortal 4.0.x
or earlier. (It's also worth considering if you're upgrading from uPortal
4.1.x, depending on how much is changing.)
• The default PAGS implementation has been switched from XML file-based
(legacy) to database-based (JPA); the legacy configuration still works, but you
may want to make the switch (some future administrative tools may require the
JPA strategy); there is a Groovy script for migrating
• The BROWSE permission now exclusively governs whether a portlet is
available to a user in the Customize Gallery, Search results, and the
/api/portletList API (used by Customize Gallery). The behavior of
/api/portletList, moreover, has changed to include portlets with no categories.
This change will require uPortal 4.1 and prior to review their data entities to
add BROWSE permissions when migrating portlet definitions to uPortal 4.2.0.
Without the BROWSE permission, users will not see portlets in these interfaces.
• The Universality theme has been retired; Respondr is now the only
theme for non-mobile devices
Complete release notes are available here:
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.2.0
Thanks tremendously to everyone who contributed!
drew wills
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