200905 - uPortal Steering Committee

uPortal 3.1.1 Release

Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.1.1 GA. This release is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.1.0 release. This release includes over 28 new features and fixes. Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.1 release overview on the 3.1.1 Release page on the Jasig wiki.

Downloads are available from: http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-311
Release notes are available at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.1.1
uPortal 3.1 Manual: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPM31

This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the Jasig Issue Tracker

I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.

uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
-Eric Dalquist

uPortal 3.0.4 Release

Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.4 GA. This release is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.0 releases. This release includes over 18 new features and fixes. Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview on the 3.0.4 Release page on the Jasig wiki.

Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal Downloads page. This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the Jasig Issue Tracker

I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.

uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
-Eric Dalquist

Call for Portlet Release Engineer

The Incubation Working Group recently accepted over a dozen portlets into the incubation process. The uPortal Steering Committee is looking for a volunteer to serve as a portlet release engineer. This person will help coordinate the the testing and release of the portlets. They would work in cooperation with the lead portlet developers. If you are interested in taking on this role, please contact the steering committee at uportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org.

Steering Committee Elections

The uPortal Steering Committee serves as the governing body responsible for the strategic direction and operational oversight of the uPortal project. The committee acts as an advocate for the project and helps to ensure its continued health and growth. Later this Spring the Jasig membership will elect individuals to serve aas stakeholder representatives on the committee. As committee members, these individuals will help guide the ongoing development and adoption of uPortal and its bundled portlets. They help gather requirements, monitor progress and work on other initiatives that help improve uPortal and the community. You can find more information about the committee at http://www.jasig.org/uportal/steering-committee. We are particularly interested in having more end-user representation on the steering committee - you don't have to be overly technical to serve! Stay tuned for more information on the nomination process.

Portal Administrative Portlet

Unicon's Cooperative Support team continues to work on UP-2047 (http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2047), the creation of a portal administration portlet; please check out the working initial version of the new portlet in the uPortal trunk. Since the last contribution, they have fixed several bugs, integrated features added to CChannelManager as of the 3.1 release, and added support for internationalization. Currently, they are laying the back-end groundwork for the new portlet lifecycle changes described at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Portlet+Lifecycle. This work includes modernizing the channel persistence implementation to use JPA and Hibernate, which should allow us to eliminate a large amount of legacy code. Watch the email list for updates and contributions!