3.3.0-M1
Nov/03/10
This release is tucked under 4.0 because it ended up being a conceptual step towards 4.0 rather than a step towards uPortal 3.3.
uPortal 3.3.0-M1 announcement
Jasig is proud to announce the first milestone release of uPortal 3.3.0. The M1 release is meant to be a developer preview of the new features being developed for 3.3. This release is not feature complete and there are no assurances about potential chances to the database or any other APIs before the first release candidate.
There was no version created in Jira for this release but the list of closed issues for the 3.3.0 version is a good reference: https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP/fixforversion/10632
Major 3.3 features that are either complete or mostly implemented for the M1 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-3.3.0-M1/
Release notes are available at: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/3.3.0-M1
-Eric Dalquist
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 6.0
Data export and import is required when upgrading.