Contribution by the uPortal project to the JASIG newsletter for the September 2007 issue.
Since the previous newsletter, Eric Dalquist has generously taken on release engineering activities around a near-term uPortal 2.6.1 patch release, towards which an RC1 is already available on the uPortal downloads site. This release includes fixes to the improved portlet deployment utility contributed by Drew Wills and maintained in this patch via collaboration with Brad Johnson and others. This release may also include a fix for UP-1816, which tracks a serious issue in support for JSR-168 portlet sessions and a proposed fix spearheaded by Eric Dalquist and successfully tested by an increasing number of uPortal developers. It is not too late to help test this patch and thereby to expedite its inclusion in uPortal. Several other bugs are also fixed in 2.6.1 RC1.
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