Overview

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Requirements

• Ant 1.6.2 or better to run the build.xml
• JDK 1.4 with the JAXP endorsed extensions or JDK 1.5

Release Notes

2.5.3 - Detailed Release notes

Fixes in 2.5.3

• DLM threadsafety fix.

Enhancements in 2.5.3

• Refer to detailed release notes.

2.5.2 - Detailed Release notes

Fixes in 2.5.2

• Refer to detailed release notes.

Enhancements in 2.5.2

• Channel instantiation and portlet rendering performance enhancements.

2.5.1 - Detailed Release notes

Fixes in 2.5.1

• Blocked CWebProxy security exploit

Enhancements in 2.5.1

• Dynamic channel titles
• Spring configuration of StatsRecorder

2.5.0

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- Detailed Release notes

Enhancements in 2.5

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.0 not present in any 2.4.x release

• New layout manager option: SunGard/SCT's Distributed Layout Management, previously only available in the commercial product SCT Luminis. Now opensourced and ready to be used in your uPortal deployment!
• Full JSR-168 compliance support
• Internally pooled database connections inside RDBMServices
• Exception hierarchy leveraging JDK 1.4 chaining Throwables
• Support for JDK 1.5 and 1.4.x
• XML API standardization
• Move away from custom uPortal threading code to standard Concurrent package

QAing this release

What QA can we apply to this release before release?

Release dependencies

uPortal 2.5 requires the following:

• Ant 1.6.2 or better to run the build.xml
• JDK 1.4 with the JAXP endorsed extensions or JDK 1.5

Specific uPortal 2.5.x patch releases:

uPortal 2.5.3

Bugfixes and enhancements beyond 2.5.2. DLM threadsafety fix.

uPortal 2.5.2

Bugfixes and enhancements beyond uPortal 2.5.1. Channel instantiation and portlet rendering performance enhancements.

uPortal 2.5.1

Bugfixes and enhancements beyond uPortal 2.5.0. Supports dynamic channel titles.

uPortal 2.5.0

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Miscellaneous Notes

The release engineer's answers to some questions about uPortal 2.5.0.