3.1.0-RC1

Jasig is proud to announce the first Release Candidate of uPortal 3.1.0. This release is feature complete and will be undergoing additional testing and bugfixes over the next three weeks before a final General Audience release is made. The uPortal 3.1 release includes many new features contributed back by uPortal 3.0 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 3.1.

This release includes nearly 200 bug fixes, improvements and new features since uPortal 3.0. Some of these include:

• Database backed portal events (statistics) storage thanks to University of Wisconsin - Madison UP-2075
• Identity and Attribute swapper admin portlets thanks to University of Wisconsin - Madison UP-2114
• DLM Fragment admin portlet that allows for easy switching to fragments and fine-grained permissioning thanks to Drew Wills & Unicon UP-2118
• MANAGE permission to allow fine-grained delegated management of portal channels thanks to Chris Doyle & Johns Hopkins UP-2186
• Long term cache headers & GZIP filtering for static portal content to allow for faster portal page loads thanks to Jen Bourey and Unicon UP-2293
• Use of the Fluid Reorderer for the drag-and-drop UI customization in the portal thanks to the numerous Jasig and Fluid developers who made this happen.
• Switched to the Fluid Skinning System for the default uPortal skin thanks to Gary Thompson and Unicon UP-2286
• Switched to completely div based XHTML theme from mix of tables and divs thank to Gary Thompson and Unicon UP-2287

This release is indented to be feature complete. The only differences between it and the GA will just be fixing bugs. That said there is always the possibility that a bug fix in a RC could cause incompatibility with the GA release.

Important Upgrading Note
uPortal 3.1.0 has had database changes that are incompatible with the 3.0 and 2.x releases. Upgrading to uPortal 3.1.0 will require using the crn-export scripts in your current install and then the crn-import scripts in your new uPortal 3.1.0 install. Pointing a uPortal 3.1.0 release at an older database will very likely not work and could cause database corruption.

Downloads are available from: http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/uportal/uPortal-3.1.0-RC1/
Release notes are available at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.1.0-RC1

uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
-Eric Dalquist