uPortal 2.5 minor version
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
uPortal 2.5 requires the following:
- Ant 1.6.2 or better to run the build.xml
- JDK 1.4 with the JAXP endorsed extensions or JDK 1.5
Specific uPortal 2.5.x patch releases:
uPortal 2.5.3
Bugfixes and enhancements beyond 2.5.2. DLM threadsafety fix.
uPortal 2.5.2
Bugfixes and enhancements beyond uPortal 2.5.1. Channel instantiation and portlet rendering performance enhancements.
uPortal 2.5.1
Bugfixes and enhancements beyond uPortal 2.5.0. Supports dynamic channel titles.
uPortal 2.5.0
The initial general audience release of uPortal 2.5