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Title: uPortal 4.0 Now Available!

Jasig is proud to announce the release of uPortal 4.0, the latest version of the leading portal framework developed by and for Higher Education! uPortal is an a powerful, flexible, scalable, standards based open source enterprise integration portal platform enabling personalization, customization, and integration. This major release supports version 2.0 of the Portlet specification (JSR-286), includes new customization, groups, permissions and user management UIs, and . 'under Under the hood' improvements in the rendering pipeline and caching also improve speed and memory usage of the portal. uPortal is a built by Higher Education for Higher Education.

uPortal 4, including a quick-start distribution, is available for download at http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-400. Features, benefits and support information is available at http://www.uportal.org.

What's new in uPortal 4.0

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uPortal 4 also ships demonstrating inclusion of Google Gadgets in the portal, affording an API totally different from JSR-286 for developing custom portal-delivered expriencesexperiences.

UI Improvements

uPortal 4 ships with improved out of the box user experiences for layout management and administration, and affords provides a better starting point for custom skin development.

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uPortal 4 ships delivering traditional desktop browser as well as mobile browser appropriate markup with jQuery Mobile support. uPortal 4 also supports the optional free and open source uMobile native mobile applications. This makes uPortal 4 a viable platform for delivering mobile browser experiences out of the box, and provides a path to even richer native mobile application experiences.

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uPortal has long offered flexible and pluggable groups service, and now ships with support for using Grouper groups within uPortal. uPortal has long offered excellent CAS support, including support for using CAS proxy tickets in portlets, and now ships demonstrating this, as well as demonstrating integration with the ClearPass CAS extension providing optional support for making the end user password available to portlets concurrently with use of CAS. Portlet Event based searching allows any portlet to contribute search results to the uPortal Search dialog.

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uPortal 4 ships with improved administrative tools supporting delegated administration of groups and permissions and , as well as management of portal-local users.

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uPortal 4 doesn't just support the latest portlet APIs, it provides great support for these APIs, with an execution environment that provides helpful debugging information when portlets time out or fail and which cleans up after portlets even when they won't clean up after themselves. This makes uPortal 4 a more supportive development environment and platform for delivering your custom portlets.

For complete release notesmore information the features and benefits of uPortal, see httpshttp://wikiwww.jasiguportal.org/display/UPC/4.0.

For within uPortal project

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Jasig is proud to announce the release of uPortal 4.0, the latest version of the leading portal framework developed by and for Higher Education! This major release supports version 2.0 of the Portlet specification (JSR-286), removes IChannel support, includes a new customization UI and updated UIs for groups, permissions and user management. New 'under the hood' features such as a refactored rendering pipeline also improve speed and memory usage of the portal.

uPortal 4, including a quick-start distribution, is available for download at http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-400.

What's new in uPortal 4.0

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