2.6.0 - uPortal - JA-SIG Wiki

Released on: 08/Aug/07

2.6.0 GA announcement

uPortal community,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the "general audience" release of uPortal 2.6.0. This release is available for immediate download from the uPortal website and is tagged in SVN.

Since the second release candidate of uPortal 2.6.0, twenty-one issues have been addressed, including improvements to the performance of the exciting new AJAX preferences features, improvements to JSR-168 window state and JSP spec level support, and 18 other minor fixes.

uPortal 2.6.0 includes many exciting improvements over prior uPortal releases, including a beautiful, div-centric out of the box theme, optional drag-and-drop preferences, a featureful and elegant DLM layout management scheme active by default, improved syndicated feed consumption, adoption of modern Java platform requirements, improved JSR-168 support, and numerous fixes and enhancements.

I encourage you to try out uPortal 2.6, look to upgrade to it, and especially to articulate needs for and be involved in the further maintenance patches and evolutionary improvements that will allow uPortal 2.6 and future uPortal releases to even better meet your needs.

Many people contributed code, testing, feedback, and issues leading up to the uPortal 2.6.0 release, including Faizan Ahmed, Nick Bolton, Susan Bramhall, Jen Bourey, Mark Boyd, Timothy Carroll, Vicky Crowley, Eric Dalquist, Don Fracapane, Andy Gherna, Glenda Gonzales, David Grimwood, Cris Holdorph, Brad Johnson, George Lindholm, Shawn Lonas, Elliot Metsger, Jason Shao, Chris Wagner, and Andrew Wills, to name a few. These people and others deserve credit for their parts in making uPortal possible.

Andrew Petro
uPortal 2.6 release engineer

Bugs known to afflict uPortal 2.6.0 GA

JASIG Issue Tracker (39 issues)

Pr Key Summary

Blocker UP-1792 initportal / deployPortletApp fail if svn.apache.org is inaccessible

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

Critical UP-2088 ProxyServlet fails to return when remote content-type check fails

Critical UP-2041 NPE from template user change after a user has previously logged in

Critical UP-1854 BookmarksPortlet CPD neglects to declare required hidden parameter identifying the portlet

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

Major UP-1882 Theme stylesheet parameter "userName" missing for ALM

Major UP-1872 Channel Manager blows up with valid SQL entry

Major UP-1813 table names in lower case

Major UP-1804 GuidGenerator improper synchronization

Major UP-1784 JSR168 portlet received wrong WindowState after beeing minimized and a WindowState change occurs in a different portlet

Major UP-1738 Tab Layout editor doesn't honor DLM restrictions

Major UP-1694 Minesweeper locks Firefox when drag/dropped in quickstart

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

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

Major UP-1335 change dlm.RDBMDistributedLayoutStore.saveStructure() and RDBMUserLayoutStore.saveStructure() to not throw Exception

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-1801 Lowercase table names do not work with MySQL on Linux

Major UP-1842 user layout chan_id mismatching

Major UP-1836 null referrer should not be allowed when check referrer is on

Major UP-1824 User agents that don't map to a profile cause Programming Error

Major UP-1816 Objects attached to a PortletSession randomly disappear

Major UP-1800 deployPortletApp target fails when server isn't connected to the Internet

Minor UP-1942 IllegalStateException in CPortletAdapter when a user has multiple portlets in layout and logs out

Minor UP-1799 Horizontal scrollbar appears (without need) with AJAX prefs turned on

Minor UP-1796 Even with use_anchors set to false, "edit" and "minimize" cause the portal to 'move' to that channel

Minor UP-1737 If renaming tabs using AJAX, it converts locale specific characters to their HTML code

Minor UP-1475 Null pointer bug potential in DLM

Minor UP-1340 In org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.RDBMDistributedLayoutStore _getStructureStylesheetUserPreferences() we shouldn't throw the generic Exception.

Minor UP-1525 Two sequence generation approaches should be rolled into one.

Minor UP-1798 uPortal 2.6.0 ships with System.out.println logging turn on for portal events

Minor UP-1785 'uPortal Development Books' channel can't find source XML

Minor UP-726 pushfragment accepted even if priority is bad

Trivial UP-1803 xml file validating

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-1802 Typo in CImage description

Trivial UP-1766 New deployPortletApp can result in non-validating web.xml

Issues addressed in uPortal 2.6.0 GA

(Note that this is in addition to issues addressed in uPortal 2.6.0 milestone 1, release candidate one, and release candidate two.)

JASIG Issue Tracker (26 issues)

T Pr Key Summary

Critical UP-1241 JSTL 1.1 support in portlet

Major UP-1781 Connection validation is db specific

Major UP-1780 ResourceLoader document validation problems

Major UP-1777 Resource Proxy broken

Major UP-1768 New theme hides minimized portlets

Major UP-1767 Minimized WindowState not honored in portlet URLs or during processAction

Major UP-1764 Oracle JDBC driver included in SVN

Major UP-1712 admin user does not see admin UI in password management channel

Major UP-1495 Error caching channel definition null

Minor UP-1779 fileNameGenerator of ProxyWriter exposes cache collisions for given classes of lengthy urls

Minor UP-1778 Proxy Servlet: rewrites only happen when no redirect domain property is specified

Minor UP-1765 xhtml-theme.sdf is out of date with respect to data loaded by ant initportal

Minor UP-1742 CUserManager DefaultDataHandlerImpl.setUserPassword() doesn't work under Oracle

Trivial UP-1770 PAGSGroupStoreConfig.xml header doco references no-longer-existing ../PersonDirs.xml

Trivial UP-1743 Incorrect password at login warning message ugly with default skin

Major UP-1786 Included Password Manager on admin layout

Major UP-1782 build process needs to recognize CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE as separate directories.

Major UP-1526 throw exceptions instead of log errors in GuestUserPreferencesManager

Major UP-1426 Rework RSS support using the Rome library in order to support Atom and all versions of RSS

Minor UP-1771 Tomcat context descriptor template should include comments for validate and log abandoned connections

Minor UP-1763 Warn administrators when pags group contains operations fail because of parent failures

Minor UP-1461 Make MulivaluedPersonAttributeUtils static utility methods public

Minor UP-1448 Upgrade backport-util-concurrent.jar to 2.1

Trivial UP-1776 Refactor DLM guide channel to extend CAbstractXSLT

Trivial UP-1775 ChannelRuntimeData log getbaseMediaUrl response

Trivial UP-1774 XSLT detect and ignore null XSL params in setStylesheetParams(Transformer transformer, HashMap stylesheetParams)