3.2.0-RC2

Jasig is proud to announce the second Release Candidate of uPortal 3.2.0. This release is feature complete and will be undergoing additional testing and bugfixes over the next week before the general audience release is cut. The uPortal 3.2 release includes many new features contributed back by uPortal adopters along with the updates from nearly a year of production use. At this time parties interested in new uPortal deployments are encouraged to strongly consider starting with uPortal 3.2.

New Feature

• UP-2047 - Create administrative portlet for managing channels
• UP-2503 - Use mFSS to create a mobile theme
• UP-2578 - Add Jasig Widget Portlets to uPortal
• UP-2586 - Add config mode for SQL portlet

Improvement

• UP-2564 - Refactor fluid css to use distributed files and overlays
• UP-2579 - Support excluding portal events by username
• UP-2581 - Add API to look up user ID by username
• UP-2582 - Cache lookup of guest user id
• UP-2583 - Add Spring App Context Shutdown Hooks
• UP-2584 - Add EhCache regions for hibernate queries

Task

• UP-2566 - Review EHCache configuration
• UP-2569 - Update to released verion of resource server
• UP-2570 - Update to released version of CAS proxy test portlet
• UP-2571 - Update to released version of Functional Tests Portlet
• UP-2572 - Update to released version of Web Proxy Portlet
• UP-2574 - Don't deploy EAR or WAR overlays to Maven
• UP-2587 - Add Weather Portlet
• UP-2588 - Deprecate IChannel
• UP-2589 - Switch to Apache 2.0 License

Bug

• UP-2525 - Ivy skin - portlet chrome broken and other rendering issues
• UP-2567 - Exceptions thrown during layout import don't cause import to fail
• UP-2568 - Request encoding is not correctly set
• UP-2573 - Portlet preferences don't show in portlet manager review screen
• UP-2575 - Exception when clicking on portlet link after session timeout:
• UP-2576 - isUserInRole should allow for group name
• UP-2580 - Potential NPE when logging ChannelTargetedInLayoutPortalEvent
• UP-2585 - Canceling configuration of web proxy portlet results in stack trace

This release is indented to be feature complete and API stable. That said there is always the possibility that a bug fix in a RC could cause incompatibility with the GA release.

If you find an issue with this RC please report it in Jira, issues in Jira are how we ensure the bugs are actually addressed.

Important Upgrading Note
uPortal 3.2.0 has had database changes that are incompatible with the previous releases. Upgrading to uPortal 3.2.0 will require using the crn-export scripts in your current install and then the crn-import scripts in your new uPortal 3.2.0 install. Pointing a uPortal 3.2.0 release at an older database will very likely not work and could cause database corruption.

Downloads are available from: http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-320-RC2
Release notes are available at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.2.0-RC2

uPortal Project Lead,
-Eric Dalquist