SSP v2.4.2 General Release Announcement

Release Highlights

• 2.4.2 is a patch release to address bugs identified in the 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 releases.  
• Minor fixes for the Action Plan tool
• Corrected inaccurate Student Searches involved DOB
• Fix for potential loss of courses on a MAP Plan when editing a Plab

Fresh Installation Instructions

See SSP v2.4.2 Installation Instructions

Upgrade Instructions

Upgrading Source Code Forks

See SSP Source Code Upgrade Process

Additional Upgrade Steps

• If you encounter "Unable to read the metadata file for artifact" errors in your ant builds, delete the containing directory for the offending file listed in the error, then try black-listing several repos in your ~/.m2/settings.xml. If you don't have that file already, use the following: 

  <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                        http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
    <profiles>
      <profile>
        <id>exclude-bad-repos</id>
        <activation>
          <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <repositories>
          <repository>
            <id>codehaus</id>
            <url>http://repository.codehaus.org</url>
            <releases>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
          </repository>
          <repository>
            <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
            <releases>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
          </repository>
          <repository>
            <id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
            <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
            <releases>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
          </repository>
        </repositories>
      </profile>
    </profiles>
  </settings>

• It is critical to complete the steps described in the 2.4.0 release notes for any deployment not upgrading directly from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1

v2.4.1 JIRA Issues

Bugs

• [SSP-2412] - Action Plan spelling corrections
• [SSP-2413] - Action Plan error handling for missing CL and Due Date
• [SSP-2416] - Early Alert Response Journal Entry template missing variables
• [SSP-2442] - Increase SSP portlet timeout
• [SSP-2443] - Mismatched Plan/Template field widths
• [SSP-2454] - DOB label value doesn't render in Student Search
• [SSP-2469] - Coaching History report has MAP Projected Graduation instead of MAP Ends
• [SSP-2504] - Overly precise date of birth search param
• [SSP-2505] - Duplicate Journal Step Details in Student History Report
• [SSP-2512] - Template owner not reset upon save as after loading a template from another owner
• [SSP-2514] - Deleted Tasks showing in Main and in Student History Reports
• [SSP-2516] - Student Search using MAP Status renders different results
• [SSP-2520] - Grade not considered when evaluating substitutions for On/Off Plan MAP Status
• [SSP-2523] - Caseload pagination broken and sort indeterminate or obscure
• [SSP-2544] - Action Plan edit temp task list dialog obscured
• [SSP-2564] - Program combo box in MAP Save/Save As dialogs built from 'facet' API, should be 'all' API
• [SSP-2566] - Unpredictable MAP Template term note display
• [SSP-2568] - Potentially incorrect caseloads reflected in Early Alert reminder email
• [SSP-2573] - Coaches receive Off Plan email for unrelated students
• [SSP-2574] - map_plan_status_send_off_plan_coach_email not respected
• [SSP-2580] - MAP planned courses not rendering in UI
• [SSP-2586] - Presence of Plan notes not reflected in menu button decoration
• [SSP-2590] - Potentially inexact course code matching in MAP UI
• [SSP-2598] - MAP unexpectedly locked against certain edits
• [SSP-2605] - Inexact Financial Aid File and SAP Status code matching
• [SSP-2607] - Inexact person ID matching
• [SSP-2609] - Inexact configuration name matching
• [SSP-2610] - Inexact text/blurb code matching
• [SSP-2613] - Inexact confidentiality level ID and name matching
• [SSP-2617] - Action Plan Challenge combo box sorted randomly when filtered by Category
• [SSP-2619] - Adding Service Groups fails after canceling the first add

Improvements and New Features

• [SSP-2415] - PersonDirectory attribute merge strategy that prevents duplicate attribute values
• [SSP-2423] - Add entry type validation to Intake in MyGPS
• [SSP-2433] - Add new field length validation to Intake
• [SSP-2555] - Overly-broad substitutable courses lookup for one-off MAP On/Off Plan reports
• [SSP-2571] - Sorted student list in MAP Off Plan Email
• [SSP-2583] - Don't load substitutable courses if they won't be used
• [SSP-2618] - MAP contact info populated for Save As actions