4.0.0-RC1

uPortal 4.0.0-RC1 announcement

Jasig is proud to announce the first release candidate of uPortal 4.0.0. The RC1 release marks the change from new feature addition to testing for the development of uPortal 4.0. There are known and unknown bugs in this release and all issues should be reported in the uPortal issue tracker.

Major 4.0 features that are either complete or mostly implemented for the RC1 release:

• "Gallery" portal customization interface that combines portlet subscription, subscribed tabs, skin selection and tab layout into an easy to use interface.

• Inline tab name editing

• Drag & Drop reordering of tabs

• Updated Administration Tools (Groups, Permissions & User Management)

• Consistent URLs which move much of the navigational state of the portal to the URL data

• i18n improvements

  • Centralized messages into a single file

  • Autotranslation of new messages to help bootstrap human translation

• Grouper support shipping with the built in Groups & Permissions services

• Pulled/Subscribable DLM fragments, allowing users to subscribe to a pre-built tab of portlets

• Updated skin

• JSR-286 Support

  • Rendering, Actions, Resources and Events are supported

  • Setting response headers when handling a resource request is not working

  • Setting render parameters during event handling is not working

  • Caching, header content contributes, and cookies all need to be implemented

• New rendering pipeline with intelligent cache key generation

• Upgraded to Spring 3.0

• Standardization of REST like service APIs for dyanmic UI

• All dynamic UI code is written as Fluid Components for standardization

Downloads are available from: http://downloads.jasig.org/uportal/uPortal-4.0.0-RC1/
Release notes are available at: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.0.0-RC1

-Eric Dalquist