Overview
uPortal 2.5 provides 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.
Requirements
- Ant 1.6.2 or better to run the build.xml
- JDK 1.4 with the JAXP endorsed extensions or JDK 1.5
Release Notes
2.5-export - Detailed Release notes
Provides the uPortal 2.5 code base configured for exporting data into a format that can be imported by uPortal 3. This release cannot be used to run a uPortal instance.2.5.3 - Detailed Release notes
Fixes in 2.5.3
- DLM threadsafety fix.
Enhancements in 2.5.3
- Refer to detailed release notes.
2.5.2 - Detailed Release notes
Fixes in 2.5.2
- Refer to detailed release notes.
Enhancements in 2.5.2
- Channel instantiation and portlet rendering performance enhancements.
2.5.1 - Detailed Release notes
Fixes in 2.5.1
- 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.