Overview
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uPortal 2.5 |
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2.5.0 was released May 26, 2005
New features in 2.5 beyond 2.4.x
- 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
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is seriously old. Consider adopting or migrating to a modern uPortal version instead. uPortal 2.5 provided robust JSR-168 support, JDK 1.5 support, DLM as a layout manager option, and a move to standard APIs for XML and concurrency management. |
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uPortal 2.5 is seriously old. Consider adopting or upgrading to a modern uPortal version instead. |
Requirements
- Ant 1.6.2 or better to run the build.xml
- JDK 1.4 with the JAXP endorsed extensions or JDK 1.5
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Release Notes
2.5-export.1 - Detailed Release notes
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Bugfixes and enhancements beyond
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2.5.3 - Detailed Release notes
Fixes in 2.5.3
- DLM threadsafety fix.
Enhancements in 2.5.3
- Refer to detailed release notes.
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2.5.2
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- Detailed Release notes
Fixes in 2.5
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- Refer to detailed release notes.
Enhancements in 2.5.2
- Channel instantiation and portlet rendering performance enhancements.
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2.5.1
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- Detailed Release notes
Fixes in 2.5
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uPortal 2.5.0
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- Blocked CWebProxy security exploit
Enhancements in 2.5.1
- Dynamic channel titles
- Spring configuration of StatsRecorder
2.5.0 - Detailed Release notes
Enhancements in 2.5.0 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
Miscellaneous Notes
The release engineer's answers to some questions about uPortal 2.5.0.