4.0.0-RC2

Jasig is proud to announce the second release candidate of uPortal 4.0.0. We've fixed another 84 issues since RC1 and have a much more stable and feature-full release. There are known and unknown bugs in this release and all issues should be reported in the uPortal issue tracker.

Changes of note since RC1

• Portlet 2.0 CacheControl support for render requests
• Local user account password reset tool
• Attribute swapper integrated into account management UI
• CDATA support in entity files
• JAXB based import/export framework
  • Not all entities are converted yet but Cernunnous scripts are being replaced as portal DAOs are updated to JPA2
  • crn-* ant tasks have been replaced with data-* ant tasks
• Better controls presented to user when a portlet fails
• File-Per-Environment approach for per-environment build time filtering
• JSON based rendering pipeline fork for uMobile integration
• Portlet Event based search portlet, any portlet in the portal can now provide search results
• Action, Event, Render, and Resource timeout options for portlets.

Major 4.0 features

• "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
  • Setting response headers when handling a resource request is not working
  • Public render parameters are not working
• 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-RC2/
Release notes are available at: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.0.0-RC2

-Eric Dalquist