Oct/22/13
uPortal 4.0.13 GA Announcement
Apereo is proud to announce uPortal 4.0.13, continuing in our regular patch releases of uPortal 4.0.
Features and Changes of Note
- [UP-3774] - Bundle announcement portlet
- [UP-3799] - Upgrade weather portlet to 1.1.0
- [UP-3779] - Enhance json.xsl (JSON rendering theme) to include info about portlets that are not within tabs and columns
Updating from 4.0.0-4.0.5
If you have data you care about in the UP_LOGIN_EVENT_AGGREGATE table please back it up externally or rename the table before executing the following steps. db-update will drop this table.
After configuring your uPortal 4.0.13 source run:
ant db-update
Downloads: http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-4013
Release Notes: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.0.13
Maven Project Site: http://developer.jasig.org/projects/uportal/4.0.13/
Full Release Notes
Release Notes - uPortal - Version 4.0.13
Bug
- [UP-3562] - Portlet Manager -- Using a comma within a portlet preference value has the effect of splitting that value in two
- [UP-3581] - The new example LDAP config in ldapContext.xml doesn't seem to play well with SimpleLdapSecurityContext
- [UP-3707] - Bundle Announcement Portlet in uPortal 4.1
- [UP-3716] - Test failures with Java 7
- [UP-3760] - Adding portlet on locked tab/column
- [UP-3767] - Mobile search URL incorrect
- [UP-3769] - Layout import fails
- [UP-3775] - CLONED from SSP - Permissons Editing Not Visible in IE
- [UP-3788] - uportal-maven-plugin does not properly copy MANIFEST.MF files within war files handled by deploy-ear
- [UP-3799] - Upgrade weather portlet to 1.1.0
- [UP-3815] - Manage Portlets displays 'setParameters.deleteButton' in Edit Parameters
- [UP-3823] - Enhance UP-3701 and/or change logging initialization of Listener classes
Improvement
- [UP-3741] - Simplify PortletExecutionEvent creation
- [UP-3743] - Provide additional information for unhandled exceptions at the Web Intercepter
- [UP-3757] - Use JDK7 chmod in maven build
- [UP-3779] - Enhance json.xsl (JSON rendering theme) to include info about portlets that are not within tabs and columns
- [UP-3841] - Make background preferences use thumbnails instead of actual wallpaper images
- [UP-3842] - Change CSS so that background image from background preferences displays without scolling
New Feature
- [UP-3762] - Add ability for users to select a background image to apply to desktop and mobile pages
- [UP-3774] - Bundle announcement portlet
- [UP-3785] - Implement Background Changer portlet on mobile web
Story
- [UP-3721] - Create TinCan API Data Model
- [UP-3730] - Create mapping of uPortal events to TinCan API Verbs
- [UP-3734] - Create unit tests to verify TinCan API objects transform into the correct JSON structures
- [UP-3784] - Google Analytics issue if you have more than one host
- [UP-3843] - Issue with search aggregation if someone searches for a space
-Tim Levett
Deployer Notes
- Requires Servlet API 2.5 to run. Tomcat 6.0 is the first version of Tomcat to support Servlet 2.5
- Requires JDK 1.6.0_26 or newer
- Data export and import is required when upgrading from a version earlier than 4.0.0
Issues addressed in uPortal 4.0.13
Bugs known to afflict uPortal 4.0