3.0.0

JA-SIG is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.0. uPortal 3.0.0 GA is the culmination of a significant effort by many people in the uPortal community to take a revolutionary step with the uPortal code base.

Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview
. The release notes page includes links to the milestone and two release candidates that preceded this GA release.

This release includes the following new features and fixes:

• A standard project structure and build management system using Maven 2 with Ant utility scripts.
• Use of the Pluto 1.1 portlet container which provides future-proofing for eventual JSR-286 support.
• A single Spring application context with much of the portal application configuration residing in this context.
• Database import and export utilities using Cernunnos scripts. Thanks to Andrew Wills from Unicon for this work.
• A new theme and skin along with a more understandable directory structure for layout and skin related files. The new skin is also using jQuery to provide drag and drop features which are enabled by default. Thanks to Gary Thompson from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work.

• Layout cache friendly dynamic title support for channels and portlets. Dynamic titles for channels and portlets work on every render now. Thanks to Nick Bolton from Unicon for this work.

• Quickstart generation scripts. Quickstart generation is now as simple as running an Ant task.

• Consistent cache scheme and configuration based on Spring-Modules Caching API. Most existing dynamic caches have been converted to use the new API and it is currently backed by EHCache though other caching frameworks can easily be used.

• CAS 3.2 is bundled with uPortal and is used as the default authentication mechanism. Thanks to Scott Battaglia from Rutgers, Andrew Petro from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work.

• CAS Proxy tickets are available to JSR-168 portlets as a user attribute. Thanks to Jen Bourey from Yale for this work.

• New default content that provides a better first-impression and demonstration of the uPortal framework.
• Over 150 bugs, improvements, new features, and tasks resolved since 2.6

Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All Release page. JavaDocs and developer-centric materials are available on the project's [Maven site|http://developer.ja-sig.org/projects/uportal/3.0.0/
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This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker

I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.

A more press-release centric announcement will follow tomorrow on the uportal-user and other lists along with the uPortal web-site and other locations.

uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer,

-Eric Dalquist