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Warning

For all existing installations of 2.0.X and 2.1.X, important upgrade instructions exist in the previous 2.1 and 2.2 Release notes. 

  • To upgrade from 2.0.X follow the upgrade instructions for BOTH the 2.1 and 2.2 Release Notes before deploying the 2.3 code
  • To upgrade from 2.1.X follow the upgrade instructions for the 2.2 Release Notes before deploying the 2.3 code
  • To upgrade from 2.2.X only the 2.3 code is necessary
  • New installations of 2.3.0 are not required to make any additional change

If you are running a SSP version prior to 1.1.1, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade or otherwise apply the reporting subsystem security patches described by SSP-701.

If you are running SSP version 2.0.0 or 2.0.0-b3, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 2.0.1 or 2.1.0 or 2.2.0 or later or otherwise apply the Confidentiality Level-related patches for the Student Documents tool as described by SSP-1917.

All implementers of this release should consider installing the patches listed in the commit section of the SSP-2721 issue details.

Also please take a few minutes to review additional security-related announcements detailed at the top of the SSP space here in Confluence.

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6. Production Deployment Tips

  • Warning
    titleDelete Demo Users

    If you are deploying to a production environment, you You should delete or change the passwords for the uPortal users created for demonstration purposes, including the admin userespecially in a production deployment. This can be done through the user interface: Manage Users ->  Find an Existing User -> [Enter user ID from list below] -> [Click result] -> Delete or  or Edit, then change password. Demo users:

    admin

    • advisor0
    • ken
    • student0
    • student1

    Non-private installs should also either change the admin user's password or add some other user to the Portal Administrators group and delete the admin user.

If anything in it is incorrect or unclear, please leave a comment below.

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