4.0.13

Oct/22/13

Security bugs in this release are fixed in a security patch release

See 4.0.13.1 for a 4.0.13 release with important security fixes applied.

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

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Bugs known to afflict uPortal 4.0

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