2.5.3 - uPortal - JA-SIG Wiki

Released on: 25/Sep/06

Quickstart release

Vincent Mathieu has generously packaged a quickstart release of uPortal 2.5.3.

Bugs known to afflict uPortal 2.5.3 GA

JASIG Issue Tracker (78 issues)

Pr Key Summary

Critical UP-2042 If you reset the guest user's layout with the default, it totally hoses uPortal (only can see error after restart)

Critical UP-863 Portlets shown in place of other portlets when not logged in to the portal

Critical UP-1741 RemoteUserSecurityContext exploit

Critical UP-1683 Cyclic reference between Nodes causes AggregatedLayout.getFirstSiblingNode getLastSiblingNode never to return

Critical UP-1640 Periods (dot, '.') in web application context cause Portlets in that web application to not work

Critical UP-1472 Number of worker threads limited to value of org.jasig.portal.ChannelManager.threadPool_initialThreads instead of maxThreads

Critical UP-1241 JSTL 1.1 support in portlet

Critical UP-1164 Tabs to the right of a deleted fragment are lost

Critical UP-1153 Any user is able to enter Fragment Manager and create fragments

Critical UP-1040 PortletPreferences between multiple instances of a Portlet are unreliable

Major UP-1812 error encountered while trying to bind /users/

Major UP-1804 GuidGenerator improper synchronization

Major UP-1773 SQL database error while retrieving user's portal UID

Major UP-1653 Session timeout while editing preferences causes next login to show blank screen

Major UP-1637 LoginServlet.java creates a redirect loop when cookies are disabled. Possible DoS waekness.

Major UP-1631 ALM and Portlet Preferences

Major UP-1606 DefaultDataHandlerImpl under cusermanager channel should use PreparedStatement

Major UP-1600 Portlet Tests Failures in IE

Major UP-1599 Exception Closing Oracle DB Connection under WebSpere 6.1

Major UP-1586 CWebProxy should check for empty (as well as null) param values for cw_xsl and cw_xslTitle

Major UP-1583 Can't find adminNav.dtd

Major UP-1452 RDBMDistributedLayoutStore.getFragmentLayoutCopies() and other methods use broken double checked locking idiom

Major UP-1451 RDBMDistributedLayoutStore locking doesn't lock

Major UP-1412 Unable to publish AL fragment to demo user

Major UP-1398 UserInstance Caching Retains old channel chrome for uP_fname focused channels

Major UP-1301 Test Portlet has checks for versions of uPortal and Pluto that are wrong and fail.

Major UP-1296 DLM - Fragment channels deleted by user are not recovered after "Revert to default layout" is executed.

Major UP-647 RDBMUserLayoutStore SQL escaping

Major UP-494 Aggregated layouts: User cannot modify subscribe-time parameters

Major UP-465 ALM Changes to Fragment column widths do not stick

Major UP-1684 Already invalidated sessions not being detected properly during session_done event using Tomcat 4 resulting in memory leak

Major UP-1842 user layout chan_id mismatching

Major UP-1816 Objects attached to a PortletSession randomly disappear

Major UP-1678 testsuite.war dependency license compliance

Major UP-1677 RssPortlet.war dependency license compliance

Major UP-1676 GooglePortlet.war dependency license compliance

Major UP-1662 hsqldb.jar dependency license compliance

Major UP-1660 servlet.jar dependency license compliance

Major UP-1647 Portlet Preferences store() method will fail if preference is also defined in portlet.xml

Major UP-1644 non privileged channels should get to know if they're being targeted.

Major UP-1619 Content Subscriber channel does not display available pulled fragments for a group unless at least one pushed fragment is published to the group

Major UP-1618 Portlet JSP Rendering Race Condition

Major UP-1617 Cache attribut

Major UP-1590 Portlet / Servlet session sharing

Major UP-1569 do not allow fragments to be added to fragments

Major UP-1566 concurrency problems sharing data via request attribute

Major UP-1565 guest users share portlet cache

Major UP-1564 Groups Manager: a group without a description causes the XML to fail

Major UP-1421 CContentSubscriber does not display available fragments

Major UP-1315 AggregatedUserLayoutStore commits broken transactions -> deadlock

Major UP-1158 o.j.p.layout.dlm.RDBMDistributedLayoutStore broken for MS-SQL Server (resultset issue)

Major UP-820 Group Manager Servant does not complete when no selections are made

Major UP-667 pubchan definitions for contentsubscriber.xml, fragment-manager.xml, andskinselector.xml doesn't match data.xml definition

Minor UP-1884 NPE in RDBMUserIdentityStore.removePortalUID

Minor UP-1811 IllegalThreadStateException in DLM

Minor UP-1769 Xalan 2.6.0 implementation of xsl:comment tag

Minor UP-1604 ALM: Delete links in Preferences should be disabled for pushed fragments.

Minor UP-1596 exception in log uportal if a user is'nt in LDAP

Minor UP-1587 XML parsers need to trim whitespace from elements

Minor UP-1475 Null pointer bug potential in DLM

Minor UP-1149 build process does not work correctly for tomcat 5.5

Minor UP-1066 SiteMap channel link to tabs don't work

Minor UP-1753 Preferences gets stuck in Skin Selection page until Cancel clicked

Minor UP-1688 Error channel fails to render when portal starved of channel rendering threads

Minor UP-1685 CPortletAdapter fails to handle exceptions on attempt to invalidate portlet session

Minor UP-1658 portlet-api-1.0.1.jar license compliance

Minor UP-1654 activation.jar dependency license compliance

Minor UP-1652 PAGS group search returns does not check for entity type

Minor UP-1630 CGenericXSLT doesn't handle empty string for upc_localConnContext, which causes ClassNotFound exception

Minor UP-1607 groupsmanager's xsl file should use post method in the form tag

Minor UP-1598 groupsmanager channel should not be available to everyone

Minor UP-726 pushfragment accepted even if priority is bad

Trivial UP-1622 userPreferencesModuleClass incorrect in stylesheets/../DLM-tab-column/nested-tables/nested-tables.sdf

Trivial UP-1351 dlmIntro.xml and dlmIntro.xsl should be under webpages/media/.... instead of source/...

Trivial UP-1212 Changing the user locale does not change the session locale

Trivial UP-907 Static Log instances should be declared as LOG

Trivial UP-1731 CUserManager IDataSource initialization race condition

Trivial UP-1115 WhirlycacheTuner: INFO message "Total hitrate" value is filled with garbage characters

Issues addressed in uPortal 2.5.3 GA

(Note that this is in addition to issues addressed in uPortal 2.5.3 release candidate one, release candidate two, and release candidate three.)

JASIG Issue Tracker (7 issues)

T Pr Key Summary

Blocker UP-1553 xalan 2.6.0 memory leak

Blocker UP-1226 JSR-168 portlet cannot access the multipart content

Critical UP-1489 NPE in DLM during loggout

Critical UP-1364 WSRP consumption does not work

Major UP-1558 Need to log exception stack trace for 2 exceptions in UserPreferencesManger.processUserPreferencesParameters()

Major UP-1347 Request wrappers do not pass the most recent merged copy of the query string and the request parameters.

Minor UP-1556 PAGS should log exception when fails to acquire attributes for a potential group member