This page serves as additional release notes about 2.6.0 GA. It is intended as a supplement to the releaseNotes.html accompanying the release.
Problems developing uPortal 2.6.0 GA on Netbeans using Mac OS X
uPortal 2.6.0 requires Xalan 2.7.0. (This isn't actually a particularly strong requirement – you could retrofit it to use a different Xalan relatively easily, at the cost of no longer being on the default and preferred Xalan.) Apparently it is difficult to get NetBeans to cope with Xalan 2.7.0, especially on Mac OS X. One workaround is to run an alternative free and open source operating system such as Ubuntu Linux and to run an alternative free and open source IDE such as Eclipse. (This is of course not an ideal workaround, but Ubuntu will run on Mac OS X supporting hardware.)