200712 December 2007 uPortal project contribution to JA-SIG newsletter

News item about release of uPortal 2.6.1 general audience release:

I am pleased to announce the availability of the "general audience" release of uPortal 2.6.1. This release is available for immediate download from the uPortal website and is tagged in SVN.

Since the GA release of uPortal 2.6.0, several issues have been addressed, including support for multiple JSR-168 portlets in the unauthenticated "guest" user experience, delivery of a functional off-line build and deploy script, a fix to the Bookmarks Portlet administrative configuration workflow, and even ALM bugfixes, though of course the consensus recommendation among uPortal developers is that uPortal deloyers continue to migrate to DLM in preference to continued use of ALM.

Many people contributed code, testing, feedback, and issues leading up to the uPortal 2.6.1 release, including Nick Bolton, Timothy Carroll, Eric Dalquist, Andy Gherna, Cris Holdorph, Brad Johnson and Andrew Wills, to name a few. These people and others deserve credit for their parts in making uPortal possible.

Speaking of migrations, to DLM and otherwise, Unicon's Drew Wills has been continuing exciting work of late (including work undertaken on behalf of Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and others) to improve open source tooling for import, export, and migration of uPortal data, which is expected to ease the migration path to the upcoming uPortal 3 release.

Andrew Petro
uPortal 2.6.1 release engineer