Release notes for uPortal 2.5.3 RC1
(the first release candidate of uPortal 2.5.3):
CVS branch: 2-5-patches
Known issues
There are many known bugs in uPortal. More than 10 bugs are identified as fixed
for 2.5.3 RC1. However, at least 20 bugs are known to affect 2.5.3 RC1.
You can query the JA-SIG issue tracking system for the latest information about
known issues. Queries are also embedded at the end of this page.
The most serious known issues at this writing include lack of access control
on the ALM Fragment Manager, bugs in supporting JSR-168 portlets for
guest user (non logged in), bugs in publishing fragments to particular users,
caching problems, lost opportunities to chain some exceptions, Aggregated Layouts
committing broken transactions, DLM layout resetting not behaving as expected,
Group manager servant failing to complete when no selections are made, lack of
error checking in ALM fragment pushing...
Upgrading:
Upgrading from 2.5.2 to 2.5.3 should be seamless.
Major new features and improvements in this release:
None.
Bug fixes in this release:
DLM no longer produces a StackOverflowError under load.
Render parameters are no longer "sticky" between different requests
Named LDAP service problems in Persondirs.xml are resolved.
CGenericXSLT now chains more exceptions.
CGroupsManager now implements ADD/REMOVE permission correctly
Suggested CAS configuration is corrected in security.properties comments.
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Important deprecations:
IMultithreaded channel APIs of all flavors are now deprecated. It is more performant,
cleaner, simpler, and preferred to write IChannels or to write JSR-168 portlets
in place of writing IMultithreaded channels.
Database schema changes
There are no database schema changes between 2.5.2 and 2.5.3.
Discussing this release and reporting issues:
Please discuss 2.5.3 on the uPortal project discussion lists.
Please post issues discovered into JIRA.
(Almost) all changes applied to 2-5-patches working towards 2.5.3 should be reflected in JIRA issues.
The uPortal project discussion lists are also the place to discuss work going forward on the 2-5-patches
branch towards 2.5.4 and beyond.
Release engineer's environment:
This release was tested and tagged on a Dell WinXP pro laptop using JDK 1.5, Eclipse 3.1, and Tomcat 5.5.17.
The release deliverable was built on the tp.its.yale.edu Linux server using the shell script in /etc/
that checks out a tag and builds a release from it.
Dynamic information from the issue tracker:
Known issues affecting uPortal 2.5.3 RC1
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